Using Parts of the Book
The table of contents is found here.
What is the front of the book?
What is blue?
When looking in the textbook, we know a word is a vocabulary word because it looks like this. (Hint-what makes it stand out?)
What is highlighted?
We would read that the Declaration of Independence was approved by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, under this heading.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
Our government is the system that makes the rules and _____ that guide our country.
What are the laws?
The index is found here.
What is in the back of the book?
The heading on page 80 reads this.
What is "The Declaration of Independence"?
Use the textbook (Chapter 3 Lesson 1) to determine which vocabulary word matches the following definition. Be able to explain how you did (or could) use your textbook to find the answer.
The right to rule.
What is sovereignty?
We would read that a government includes the people who make the laws and those who make sure the laws are obeyed, under this heading.
What is, What is Government?
The Declaration of Independence says that the American colonies no longer accepted Great Britain's ________.
What is sovereignty?
The table of contents lists chapter 3's title as this.
What is the "Government in the United States"?
The heading on page 82 reads this.
What is "The Constitution of the United States"?
Use the textbook (Chapter 3 Lesson 1) to determine which vocabulary word matches the following definition. Be able to explain how you did (or could) use your textbook to find the answer.
An official member of a country.
What is a citizen?
We would read that our country was young when the Constitution was written under this heading.
What is The Consitution of the United States?
Principles that guide our government are set down in this document.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
What is a member of a city, state, or town who has legal rights and responsibilities.
What does the heading on page 83 tell us the paragraph will be about?
Use the textbook (Chapter 3 Lesson 1) to determine which vocabulary word matches the following definition. Be able to explain how you did (or could) use your textbook to find the answer.
The freedom to govern oneself.
What is liberty?
We would learn what the first ten amendments to the Constitution are called under this heading.
What is The Bill of Rights?
The Founding Fathers understood that the Constitution might need to change as the nation grew so these were created.
What are the amendments?
The index tells us that Consitution can be found on this page.
What is page 48?
What is the heading on page 79?
What is, there is no heading?
Use the textbook (Chapter 3 Lesson 1) to determine which vocabulary word matches the following definition. Be able to explain how you did (or could) use your textbook to find the answer.
Everyone is born with these basic rights that require no proof, which means they are this.
What is self-evident?
Under the heading, The Consitution of the United States, we read that amendments must be approved by these two groups of people.
What are Congress and the states?
This document's first three words are "We the People."
What is the Consitution of the United States?