Cornell Note-Taking:
Description- Note-taking is the practice of writing down information in an organized way.
Importance- Note-taking is important so that you can reference them to use for studying. Notes organizes and condenses information. They also allow you to put ideas in your own words.
Sample Notes-
Argumentation:
Description- Argumentation is when you write a paragraph based on a claim. The claim is then baked up with data and the data is backed up with a warrant. The claim is basically a thesis statement with the date and warrant being supporting details.
Importance- Argumentation is important so that if you had to summarize a historical document, you are able to do that with the claim, data, and warrant method. It can help you organize your thoughts in a clear summary.
The Northwest Ordinance was a significant piece of legislation because it was a bright spot in otherwise failing government, provided a path to statehood, and insisted on rights for settlers. This was a bright spot in otherwise failing government because the Articles of Confederation lacked Bill of Rights. The Northwest Ordinance would create new states out of western lands and then admitted into the Union. Theses new states would equal the old states so that there would be no inferior or superior. The citizens would be equal and enjoy all rights they fought for in the revolution. It included many basic rights where as the Articles of Confederation lacked. These included trial by jury and religious freedom.
Document Analysis:
Description- Document Analysis is a method of finding who the speaker is, who is the speaker’s audience, what is the occasion, what is the purpose, and what is the significance.
Importance- It is important to analyze a document to really comprehend the information. If you don’t know what the document is saying, a tool can be the SOAPS document analysis method.
Excerpts from COMMON SENSE (1770)
The cause of America is, in a great measure, the cause of all mankind. Many circumstances have, and will arise, which are not local, but universal, and through which the principles of all lovers of mankind are affected, and in the event of which, their affections are interested. The laying a country desolate with fire and sword, declaring war against the natural rights of all mankind, and extirpating the defenders thereof from the face of the earth, is the concern of every man to whom nature hath given the power of feeling; of which class, regardless of party censure, is…
…In order to gain a clear and just idea of the design and end of government, let us suppose a small number of persons settled in some sequestered part of the earth, unconnected with the rest, they will then represent the first peopling of any country, or of the world. In this state of natural liberty, society will be their first thought. A thousand motives will excite them thereto; the strength of one man is so unequal to his wants, and his mind so unfitted for perpetual solitude, that he is soon obliged to seek assistance and relief of another, who in his turn requires the same. Four or five united would be able to raise a tolerable dwelling in the midst of a wilderness, but one man might labor out the common period of life without accomplishing any thing; when he had felled his timber he could not remove it, nor erect it after it was removed; hunger in the mean time would urge him from his work, and every different want call him a different way. Disease, nay even misfortune would be death, for though neither might be mortal, yet either would disable him from living, and reduce him to a state in which he might rather be said to perish than to die….
…But as the colony increases, the public concerns will increase likewise, and the distance at
which the members may be separated, will render it too inconvenient for all of them to meet on every occasion as at first, when their number was small, their habitations near, and the public concerns few and trifling. This will point out the convenience of their consenting to leave the legislative part to be managed by a select number chosen from the whole body, who are supposed to have the same concerns at stake which those have who appointed them, and who will act in the same manner as the whole body would act were they present. If the colony continue increasing, it will become necessary to augment the number of the representatives, and that the interest of every part of the colony may be attended to, it will be found best to divide the whole into convenient parts, each part sending its proper number; and that the elected might never form to themselves an interest separate from the electors, prudence will point out the propriety of having elections often; because as the elected might by that means return and mix again with the general body of the electors in a few months, their fidelity to the public will be secured by the prudent reflection of not making a rod for themselves. And as this frequent interchange will establish a common interest with every part of the community, they will mutually and naturally support each other, and on this (not on the unmeaning name of king) depends the strength of government, and the happiness of the governed….
…Here then is the origin and rise of government; namely, a mode rendered necessary by the inability of moral virtue to govern the world; here too is the design and end of government, viz., freedom and security. And however our eyes may be dazzled with snow, or our ears deceived by sound; however prejudice may warp our wills, or interest darken our understanding, the simple voice of nature and of reason will say, it is right…
Source: Thomas Paine, Common Sense, Philadelphia: W.& T. Bradford, 1776.
SOAPS Paragraph- In Thomas Paine’s Common Sense, he is writing specifically to the colonists. The colonies are suffering leading to a revolt against King George III. Paine blames the British monarchy for the colonists suffering. Paine is an advocate for immediate Declaration of Independence. Many believe that this sparked the Revolutionary war which cause the 1st successful ant-colonial act in modern-day history.
Symbolic Representation:
Description- I used 1o different images to symbolize the first 10 amendments of the Constitution. These images are used to help you graphically remember what the amendment is.
10 Amendments Blog-
1st Amendment: Guarantees freedom of religion, speech, and the press.
This amendment protects our liberty both to express and be exposed to ideas and opinions. This amendment is not absolute, however. If an individual violates the rights of others, it may not be protected. Examples are inflammatory speech, defamatory speech, true threats, and hat speech. Freedom of religion guarantees that there can never be an official religion for the country as a whole. You can also have no religious beliefs.
The image below states “Freedom of Expresson.” Freedom of Expression means that we have the freedom to express our thoughts, religion, ideas, etc. This clearly defines the 1st amendment.
2nd Amendment: Protects the right to keep and bear arms
The picture below with a gun represents our right to have weapons. These weapons are necessarily to be used to shoot other citizens and things, however to protect yourself in case of emergency.
3rd Amendment: Guards against the forced quartering of troops
The image below of a troop in a house represents that you have a right against housing troops.
4th Amendment: Protects persons, houses, papers, and effects. “Unreasonable searches and seizures.”
Warrants are issued during investigations to arrest or search.
5th Amendment: Guarantees a trial by jury and self-incrimination.
6th Amendment: Right to have a “speedy and public trial” and to be informed of the charges made against him, the right to call witnesses in his defense, and the right to have an attorney in his defense.
This image of the jury listening to the lawyer defending. They have a trial by jury and can have a “speedy and public trial”
7th Amendment: Lays out the rules of common law.
8th Amendment: Protects against “cruel and unusual punishments”
An innocence that accused criminals should not have to sit in jail, endlessly awating trial. However, the court can’t just let him free. They need to insure that the accused criminal does not run away and that they appear for court.
Bail is a system that compromises these needs with those of the individual. Bail itself is not a right. The 8th amendment guarantees that bail not be excessive.
9th Amendment: Ensures that the individual rights that are not enumerated in the Constitution are secure
The image below states “Every human has rights…Doesn’t mean we should demand them” means the we as humans have rights even if they aren’t stated in the Constitution.
10th Amendment: Limits the power of federal government by reserving for the states all powers that are not explicitly granted to the federal government by the Constitution.
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