As we move forward, we are going to be working on our newest unit: The Bill of Rights.  Our study of the Bill of Rights is naturally an important topic to cover (after all, we get many of our rights and freedoms from this document).  In addition to understanding the amendments themselves, we will work on applying these rights to our daily lives as students and citizens.

At the end of our unit, we will work in Social Studies and ELA to participate in an essay contest, hosted by the local VA branch.  The prompt this year is “The Bill of Rights and me.”  Feel free to explore the website, which highlights some of the requirements.

This project will take us up to December.  Expect us to focus on different aspects of the essay and the requirements each week in conjunction to to what they are covering in ELA.