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Direct linkKnaresborough, Adam – Social Education, 2009
Early in the year, the students of history and government at Mountain View High School in Stafford, Virginia, began to devise hand motions to help memorize the 27 amendments to the Constitution for government class. Three students in the school who are interested in hip hop music then suggested composing a rap song about the topic. Working with…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Constitutional Law, United States History, Memorization
American Educator, 2002
Presents excerpts from the speeches and writings of Abraham Lincoln (e.g., various speeches that addressed slavery, a speech on democracy as a universal ideal, and the Gettysburg Address) to show how he evoked a vision of a United States that has inspired, shaped, and defined the country ever since. (SM)
Descriptors: Democracy, Patriotism, Poetry, Prose
Peer reviewedPaul, Karleigh; And Others – Michigan Social Studies Journal, 1987
Displays the essays and poetry of the first-place winners of the first Michigan Social Studies Olympiad, a competition for fourth through twelfth grade students which had as its theme the celebration of the bicentennial of the U.S. Constitution and Michigan's sesquicentennial. (JDH)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Competition, Elementary Secondary Education, Essays
