Constitution Day Bill of Rights Booklet, Grades 3-5: One Amendment Per Page
Ten pages. One amendment each. Every one of them exists because something happened to somebody, and this book starts there instead of with the definition.
By the end of this
- Your child can say, in their own sentence, what each of the ten amendments protects
- Your child can name the complaint that a given amendment was written to answer
Your child is ready for this if they
- Reads a short paragraph without help
- Writes a sentence in their own words
- Will go outside and look at something for five minutes
That list matters more than the age we printed on it. You know which of the two is true of your child.
The picture leads, then three boxes to fill and one why question. A LEARN box on every page, so every question can be answered from that same page.
Every amendment in this book began as a complaint. Somebody was jailed for printing, taxed for a church they did not attend, searched without cause, or made to feed soldiers in their own kitchen. The Bill of Rights is the list of things that had already gone wrong.
What is inside
- 01The First Amendment — Five Freedoms
- 02The Second Amendment — Ready in a Minute
- 03The Third Amendment — Whose Barn Is It?
- 04The Fourth Amendment — Ask First
- 05The Fifth Amendment — Five Rules in One
- 06The Sixth Amendment — Not Far Away
- 07The Seventh Amendment — Who Decides?
- 08The Eighth Amendment — Is It Fair?
- 09The Ninth Amendment — Not On The List
- 10The Tenth Amendment — Near and Far
Standards alignment, for a portfolio or a state filing
5 alignments. Copy what your state asks for and ignore the rest — this is here for the paperwork, not for the teaching.
| Framework | Code | What it covers |
|---|---|---|
| C3 | D2.Civ.12.3-5 | |
| C3 | D2.Civ.3.3-5 | |
| C3 | D2.Civ.4.3-5 | |
| C3 | D2.Civ.8.3-5 | |
| CCSS-ELA | RI.5.1 |