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New WTP High School Text available!
The newly published We the People: The Citizen and the
Constitution book will be the official text for the district,
regional, state and national WTP competitions starting in September
2008. THERE WILL BE NEW QUESTIONS. The District-level questions have
already been posted on the www.civiced.org website. State
level questions will be issued in September. The Teacher’s Edition
will be distributed in mid-August. A sample lesson is also posted on the
CCE website. It will include student text with marginalia for teachers.
Supreme Court decisions will be linked. Assessments and worksheets will
be online, as will the correlations. Enrichment opportunities will also
be included.
The new edition is now a stand-alone government text. Any previous
gaps have been addressed, and the book is no longer considered a
supplement. It is a book and a curriculum. It is aimed at 9-12 grades,
with an unofficial 11.2 reading level. Audio version planned.
All six units are cross-referenced and cross-linked.
A
companion website is now available!.
To order a replacement set of high school texts, please email lyc@nysba.org
New!! NYS Standards Correlations for new Level III text - Click
Here
CHANGES noted . . .
Unit 1
- Revised – still foundational
- Includes theory
- More user-friendly
- Discussions of state constitutions
Unit 2
- Continental Congress and ratification debates
- Process emphasized
- Questions faced by framers vis a vis branches of gov’t and
federalism expanded
- Federalists and Anti-Federalists - two separate lessons
Unit 3
- How has constitution changed?
- Right to vote issues
- Constitution’s expansion
- Checks and balances
- Political parties today
- Civil War – constitutional issues and history
- Presidential Power
- Slavery
- Critical thinking exercises: extra-constitutional practices, checks
and balances, rule of law
Unit 4
- has been expanded and includes the Supreme Court, federalism and
ties to Project Citizen.
- 2 lessons on Congress; contemporary questions and challenges
- 1 lesson; operation of Congress
- Role of the Executive; historical and current
- Separation of powers
- Bureaucracy – public policy
- Supreme Court as an institution
- State Courts
- Federalism in practice
- State and local gov’ts (ties to Project Citizen)
Unit 5
- New lesson: What is a Bill of Rights?
- Bill of Rights discussion changed
- First Amendment issues
- Fourth, 5th, 6th and 8th
covered
- How our system uses amendments
Unit 6
- now more substantive.
- Seven lessons
- What Challenges Face US Constitutional Democracy?
- Citizenship; rights and responsibilities, aliens, dual citizenship,
legal and moral rights
- Civic Engagement/local engagement
- Links to Project Citizen
- Civil Rights Movements
- Rights of women, blacks, farm workers and Native Americans
included
- Civil disobedience
- US system’s influence
on other nations
- Globally adopted concepts; federalism, Bill of Rights, judicial
review
- What fits and where?
- Challenges to US in the future; amendments, legislation
- Chance for student debates
- Civic and world affairs
To order a replacement set of high school texts, please email lyc@nysba.org
Related Files
Level III NYS Correlation (Adobe PDF File)
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