Constitutional Workshop

An American Primer: The Founding Documents

Houston, TX
October 30, 2012

The Bill of Rights Institute is hosting a free one-day workshop entitled An American Primer: The Founding Documents. This workshop is for Social Studies teachers, grades 8-12, and will be held at Houston Baptist University located at 7502 Fondren Road, Houston, TX 77074. The seminar begins at 7:30 A.M. with registration and breakfast and concludes at 2:30 P.M.  Register today – space is limited! *Registration for this program has been closed due to capacity. Please contact events@billofrightsinstitute.org to be placed on the wait-list.

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Program Details for Participants:

 

 

  • Program Location: Houston Baptist University located at 7502 Fondren Road, Houston, TX 77074.  The program will take place in the Hinton Center building, in the Dillon II room, on the main level. A campus map is also available here.

 

  • Parking: a parking map and driving directions can be found here. *Please note that parking is available to participants in lots 5 and 6 on the campus map. There is no charge for parking, however participants are strongly advised to print the following parking permit and place it on there dashboard when parking, to avoid the chance of ticketing.

 

  • Directions: The most direct way to get into Dillon II is through the back door. On the campus map above the back door is adjacent to lot F. The white semicircle indicates the entrance. Entering through the back door Dillon II will be the first door on the right. Dillon II is located on the first floor, and is also known as room 139.

 

  • Breakfast and Registration begin at 7:30am, with the program sessions starting promptly at 8:00am. A complete agenda for the day is available here.


 

This Bill of Rights Institute Constitutional Workshop will help teachers address these Texas State Standards:

State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness Resources > Social Studies (2011)

Grade 8

1.1.A identify the major eras and events in U.S. history through 1877, including colonization, revolution, drafting of the Declaration of Independence, creation and ratification of the Constitution, religious revivals such as the Second Great Awakening, early republic, the Age of Jackson, westward expansion, reform movements, sectionalism, Civil War, and Reconstruction, and describe their causes and effects.

1.1.C explain the significance of the following dates: 1607, founding of Jamestown; 1620, arrival of the Pilgrims and signing of the Mayflower Compact; 1776, adoption of the Declaration of Independence; 1787, writing of the U.S. Constitution; 1803, Louisiana Purchase; and 1861–1865, Civil War.

1.4.C explain the issues surrounding important events of the American Revolution, including declaring independence; writing the Articles of Confederation; fighting the battles of Lexington, Concord, Saratoga, and Yorktown; enduring the winter at Valley Forge; and signing the Treaty of Paris of 1783.
3.15.A identify the influence of ideas from historic documents, including the Magna Carta, the English Bill of Rights, the Mayflower Compact, the Federalist Papers, and selected Anti-Federalist writings, on the U.S. system of government.

3.15.D analyze how the U.S. Constitution reflects the principles of limited government, republicanism, checks and balances, federalism, separation of powers, popular sovereignty, and individual rights.

3.16.A summarize the purposes for and process of amending the U.S. Constitution.
3.18.B summarize the issues, decisions, and significance of landmark Supreme Court cases, including Marbury v. Madison, McCulloch v. Maryland, and Gibbons v. Ogden
State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness Resources > Social Studies (2011)

3.19.B summarize rights guaranteed in the Bill of Rights.

5.29.A differentiate between, locate, and use valid primary and secondary sources such as computer software, databases, media and news services, biographies, interviews, and artifacts to acquire information about the United States.

World History

2.9.D identify the influence of ideas such as separation of powers, checks and balances, liberty, equality, democracy, popular sovereignty, human rights, constitutionalism, and nationalism on political revolutions.
4.20.B identify the impact of political and legal ideas contained in the following documents: Hammurabi’s Code, the Jewish Ten Commandments, Justinian’s Code of Laws, Magna Carta, the English Bill of Rights, the Declaration of Independence, the U.S. Constitution, and the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen.

U.S. History

1.1.A analyze and evaluate the text, intent, meaning, and importance of the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution, including the Bill of Rights, and identify the full text of the first three paragraphs of the Declaration of Independence.

This seminar is made possible thanks to the generous support of the Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation.

For questions, please contact Marianne Myers at: events@BillofRightsInstitute.org or at 703-894-1776, ext. 20.