About This Lesson
ESSENTIAL QUESTION:
HOW CAN THE MIDDLE-CLASS CONSTITUTION INSURE ECONOMIC EQUALITY?
Objectives:
SWBAT analyze, evaluate, source and annotate excerpted secondary source text on the topic of sustaining the economic preconditions of our constitutional system with emphasis on building evidence-based reasoning skills necessary for the New York State American History Regents
Citations:
BOOK: Sitaraman, Ganesh (2017) The Crisis of the Middle-Class Constitution: Why Economic Inequality Threatens Our Republic. New York: Alfred A. Knopf (Pgs. 224-302)
VIDEO: Sitaraman – Center for American Progress (3:03 mins) - https://youtu.be/OGioQKDrOJI
PRIMARY SOURCE HOMEWORK:
Charles Beard’s “Framing the Constitution”
