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    Here are primary source images related to one (or more) of the amendments from the Bill of Rights. 

    1. Provide your students with the Bill of Rights text OR use this activity as an assessment activity to measure comprehension of the Bill of Rights.
    2. Share each image with students either via whole classroom discussion or as an individual assignment.
    3. Ask students to analyze each image and determine which of the first ten amendments is represented in that image. For some images, students may be able to identify more than one answer.
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    Image 186 of World War history : daily records and comments as appeared in American and foreign newspapers, 1914-1926 (New York), June 10, 1917, (1917 June 10-16)
    George Washington Papers, Series 4, General Correspondence: New Jersey Council, March 11, 1778, Quartering Troops
    Police search Max Dolinger after bomb throwing, Union Square, anarchist riot, New York
    National Guard 7th Reg[imen]t N.Y.S.M. / on stone by C[harles] Gildemeister, 289 Broadway N.Y. ; print by Nagel & Weingaertner N.Y.
    Bartkus v Illinois
    Bartkus v Illinois
    Spectators and witnesses on second day of Superior Court during trial of automobile accident case during court week in Granville County Courthouse, Oxford, North Carolina. See subregional notes (Odum) November 22, 1939
    The electric chair in Auburn State Prison
    Migratory family traveling across the desert in search of work in the cotton at Roswell, New Mexico. U.S. Route 70, Arizona
    [People holding sign: "George Washington said: "The Constitution which at any time exists, till changed by an explicit and authentic act of the whole people, is sacredly obligatory upon all." Uphold the 18th Amendment!"
    Suffragettes at White House
    Goldstein (Sol) arrest
    Choir of Pentecostal church. Southside of Chicago, Illinois
    Goudy, Frederick, Mr., at his printing press
    The Surratt jury / Johnson, photographer.
    Royal Order of April 2, 1767 issued by King Carlos III approving the deportation from the country and seizure of properties of the religious order of the Jesuits.
    [Man and woman with rifle?]
    Integration in Clinton, Tenn. - Natl. Guard town of Clinton; High School Classes
    [Louis Capone, facing camera, and Emanuel "Mendy" Weiss listening to a lawyer, during their trial] / World Telegram photo by Al Ravenna.
    An account of a late military massacre at Boston, or the consequences of quartering troops in a populous town, March 12, 1770. [New York, John Holt, 1770.
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    Wonderful lesson idea   Carrie Veatch  and interesting primary sources!  Something like this is also a perfect alternate assessment on the Bill of Rights knowledge (instead of a test).  I’m going to test myself with it right now!

      Carrie Veatch , when I taught in middle school, one eighth grade social studies teacher always did a Bill of Rights activity in which her students identified current events articles in newspapers (yes, print newspapers!) that matched each amendment. Not only did the students learn about the details and importance of the amendments, but they suddenly showed an increased interest in current events. The fascinating range of primary sources from history in this album should certainly spark the same kind of interest, but even better, an interest in history!  

    Please share to the Elementary Group! We love great lessons! Thank you for your hard work 

    I'll do that; thanks!

    And to the U.S. History group!  Thanks Carrie!

    Just a quick tip, Carrie, that there's no SHARE button for albums (it's a privacy thing specific to collaborative albums), but you can write or copy a quick description of your album in other groups and instead share a link either to the original post or paste in the COPY SHAREABLE URL link in the extra groups. 

    Thanks for that info, Mary. I'm going to give that a whirl right now, so if you don't see them in the Elementary Group and U.S. History Group, we'll know I didn't do it correctly. :)

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