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Constitutional Amendments Assignment

The assignment requires students to research a specific amendment to the Constitution and create a PowerPoint presentation that lasts a minimum of three minutes. Students must address key questions about the amendment, including its purpose, ratification date, and changes it brought about, while ensuring the presentation is original and includes a visual aid. An evaluation rubric outlines criteria for organization, subject knowledge, and presentation quality.

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Constitutional Amendments Assignment

The assignment requires students to research a specific amendment to the Constitution and create a PowerPoint presentation that lasts a minimum of three minutes. Students must address key questions about the amendment, including its purpose, ratification date, and changes it brought about, while ensuring the presentation is original and includes a visual aid. An evaluation rubric outlines criteria for organization, subject knowledge, and presentation quality.

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Constitutional Amendments Assignment

Your assignment will be to research, with or without a partner, one amendment to the Constitution and create a
PowerPoint that will teach the class about your amendment. You will present the information in class. The
presentation should be a minimum of three minutes long.

Questions that need to be addressed in your presentation:

1) What is your amendment about?


2) Why was it proposed? (What events led up to it? What was the purpose of having it?)
3) When was it ratified?
4) What changes were created after it was passed?

You should be an expert on your amendment and go into great detail when you present. Make sure you spend
time reading about your amendment using the web sites listed below.

(This should be in your own words and NOT copied and pasted in. If you plagiarize information you will receive
a “0” for your presentation)

The presentation must also include a visual aid that you think reflects your amendment. You can either:

1) Create your own image (with color), or


2) Find a picture, piece of art or poetry (with color)

Extra Credit: How can someone remember your amendment?

Web sites for Amendment Resources


1. Interactive Constitution (Use the arrow keys at the top to go to the amendment you are researching)
2. Constitution Center (scroll down to the amendments section and click on your amendment. Also click on the
notes button) Notes on the Amendments

3. Wikipeida article on Amendments (just click on the text that you want to get information on)

4. http://www.findlaw.com/casecode/constitution/ (scroll down to the amendments section and click on your


amendment.)
SEE EVALUATION RUBRIC ON NEXT PAGE

Evaluation Rubric for Amendment Presentation

10 points 15 Points 20 Points


Organization Audience has Student presents Student presents
20 points difficulty following information in logical information in logical,
presentation because sequence which interesting sequence
student does not audience can follow. which audience can
present information in follow easily.
coherent manner.

Subject Student partially Student addresses Student addresses all


Knowledge addresses required most of the necessary information
20 points information, is information required, and demonstrates full
uncomfortable with is at ease with knowledge by
information they answers to all answering all class
present and is able to questions, but fails to questions with
answer only elaborate. explanations and
rudimentary elaboration.
questions.

Presentation Presentation has five Presentation has three Presentation has no


20 points or more misspellings or or more misspellings misspellings or PPT
PPT errors. and/or more errors.
PPT errors l errors.

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