About This Lesson
ESSENTIAL QUESTION: HOW DANGEROUS WERE ELBRIDGE GERRY’S IDEAS?
Objectives:
SWBAT analyze, evaluate, source and annotate excerpted primary and secondary source text on Elbridge Gerry’s ideas, including gerrymandering, with emphasis on building evidence-based reasoning skills necessary for the A.P. American Exam
Citations:
Lee, Mike (2017) Written Out of History: The Forgotten Founders Who Fought Big Government. New York: Penguin Random House LLC (Pgs. 95-102)
VIDEO CLIP: Supreme Court’s next step on gerrymandering could be its biggest yet (3:31 mins) http://ww.cnn.com/2017/05/29/politics/supreme-court-partisan
Justices to Hear Major Challenge To Partisan Gerrymandering (NY Times) – June 19, 2017
Gerrymandering Case Echoes in Inkblot-Like Districts Across the U.S. (NY Times) – June 19, 2017
