What's like the most addicting iCivics game, Do I Have A Right, but, well, isn't the most addicting iCivics stated previously? What we did in History on Monday, that's what. Mr. Boyle handed out a hypothetical court case involving farmer Roger Will and a pop legend, and we had to find the Amendments that supported their case. If these people has us for lawyers, they would totally be able to assemble on a Sunday to jam out to Madonna.
After we clarified the meaning of the word hypothetical, it was almost a breeze to identify what Amendments were violated. It's getting easier and easier to remember which one is which, at least for me. First is the freedom of speech and religion, eighth would include cruel and unusual punishments like stocks or the pillory.
Moving on, today we established the differences between the Democratic-Republican and the Federalist parties. I had an excuse to use my favorite purple pen to highlight the important parts of the handout and draw arrows connecting ideas into some sort of lopsided flow chart. Apparently, drawing them is NOT my specialty, but I got the idea all the same.
Thankfully, if you got the Federalist ideas down, then eventually realized that the Democratic-Republican ideas were just ... the opposite. Which makes sense, since they're opposing sides. But, for example, the Federalists were "loose constitutionalists" while the Democratic-Republicans were "strict constitutionalists." Easy enough.
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