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WRITTEN OUT OF HISTORY - LUTHER MARTIN, MERCY OTIS WARREN, CANASATEGO & MUM BETT

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Grade Level Grade 11
Resource Type Handout, Lesson Plan, Worksheet
Standards Alignment
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About This Lesson

ESSENTIAL QUESTION:  WHY ARE CONTRARIAN VIEWPOINTS NECESSARY TO THE SURVIVAL OF DEMOCRACY?

Objective:

To have students analyze, evaluate, source and annotate complex text reading based on Mike Lee’s book entitled “Written Out of History” to examine contrarian viewpoints written out of history (skills necessary for the NYSED Regents).

Citations:

VIDEO: 

Senator Mike Lee – Written Out Of History (22:12 mins) –

https://www.c-span.org/video/?429648-102/Senator-Mike-Lee-Written-History

BOOK:  Lee, Mike (2017) Written Out of History:  The Forgotten Founders Who Fought Big Government.  New York:  Penguin Randon House LLC (Pgs.  IX-XVII, 23-45, 46-67, 68-94 and 116-143)

Landmark Supreme Court Cases http://streetlaw.org/en/Page/1071/Street_Law_Materials_Supreme_Court_Cases

Standards

describe the evolution of American democratic values and beliefs as expressed in the Declaration of Independence, the New York State Constitution, the United States Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and other important historical documents.
Power separated and balanced
trace the evolution of American values, beliefs, and institutions
Limited government is achieved through the separation of powers between three different branches. The system of checks and balances is part of this limited government structure at all levels of government.

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