Benjamin Harrison Lesson Plans

1. Courts in the Classroom > Benjamin Harrison Day 2005
Skip Repetitive Navigationhome welcome Search for Search about contact webmaster help policies Banner image Bookmark this page home > supreme court > courts in the classroom (Internet Courts in the > lesson plans & materials > benjamin harrison Explorer Only) Classroom Logo day 2005 Print this page Courts in the Classroom Benjamin Harrison Day: March 4, 2005 Presented by the President Benjamin Harrison Home, the Indiana Courts in the Supreme Court, and the Capitol Tour Office Classroom Home Lesson Plans & Materials Videos on this website r...

2. Who Wants to be a Pioneer?
Who Wants to be a Pioneer? Who Wants to be a Pioneer? Caroline Harrison: Economics, Discovery and Daily Life Skill: Elementary School Time Required: One week + + -+ Standards Compliance -+ NCSS Strand 2 Time, Continuity, and Change -+ NCSS Strand 3 People, Places, and Environments -+ NCSS Strand 4 Individual Development and Identity -+ NCTE Standard 1 Students read fiction, nonf...

3. How the Electoral College works
...the Electoral College play in the outcome of the election.) 2. For indepth background and an additional classroom activity, use Highwired.com's lesson on the Electoral College. Accommodation Kinesthetic: Students can do some research on the Rutherford B. Hayes/Samuel Tilden election of 1876 and the Benjamin Harrison/Grover Cleveland election of 1888 in which the Electoral College decided the vote. Ask them to act out an imagined scene from one of those events. RELATED SITES: Constitution Society Electoral process Electoral Votes Note: Pages will open in a new browser window External sites are not endorsed by CN...

4. Political Reform in the Late 1800s
...o place on timeline (2 min) 13. Ask students what ?interstate? means. Ask students how people traveled from place to place during this time. Briefly explain the corruption in railroad pricing. 14. Give notes on Interstate Commerce Act and ask volunteer to place on timeline(2 min). 15. Give notes on Benjamin Harrison and what he did. Ask volunteer to place events on the timeline (4 min) 16. Add other events to timeline and discuss (10 min) a. Scott Joplin and Maple Leaf Rag?Who was he? b. First Electric Trolley?why did they need them? c. Pullman Strike?What happened? d. Haymarket Riot?What happened? e. Timezones...

5. Political Reform in the Late 1800s
...o place on timeline (2 min) 13. Ask students what ?interstate? means. Ask students how people traveled from place to place during this time. Briefly explain the corruption in railroad pricing. 14. Give notes on Interstate Commerce Act and ask volunteer to place on timeline(2 min). 15. Give notes on Benjamin Harrison and what he did. Ask volunteer to place events on the timeline (4 min) 16. Add other events to timeline and discuss (10 min) a. Scott Joplin and Maple Leaf Rag?Who was he? b. First Electric Trolley?why did they need them? c. Pullman Strike?What happened? d. Haymarket Riot?What happened? e. Timezones...

6. HTI Lesson Plan: English-Indian Encounters
...the constitutional theory that surrounded their passage. How did the Federalist party justify the need for the acts? Why did the Federalists feel the acts did not violate the Bill of rights? Students should be able to assess the arrest and imprisonment of critics of the Adams administration such as Benjamin Franklin Bache, Thomas Cooper, and Matthew Lyon. Were these violations of the First Amendment or were they justified by the crises confronting the new nation? Several sites provide texts and documents to prepare students for these assignments. The Avalon Project at Yale University contains the texts of the A...

7. The Maryland Center for the Study of History and Civic Education :: Lesson Plans
...overnor William Paca's council in April 1783 and was responsible for sending Samuel Chase to England after the War for American Independence in an attempt to get Maryland's bank stock back. (4) Jeremiah Chase was elected on an Anti-Federalist ticket along with Samual Chase, John Francis Mercer, and Benjamin Harrison which defeated Charles Carroll of Carrollton, James Carroll, Brice Worthington, and John Hall. He represented Anne Arundel County at the 1788 Constitutional Ratification Convention where he opposed ratification. Jeremiah went into the county and harangued citizens. He dispersed a signed handbill war...

8. ADL Curriculum Connections
...D EXTREMISM Excerpt from President Jefferson's Secret Message to Congress Regarding the Lewis & Clark Expedition (January 18, 1803) Responding to Violence and Hate Bibliography and Resources (PDF: 67K) HOLOCAUST AND Excerpt from President Jefferson's GENOCIDE STUDIES Private Letter to William Henry Harrison, Governor of the Indiana Territory (February 27, 1803) Challenging Anti-Semitism Excerpt from President Jefferson's Instructions to Captain Meriwether Lewis (June 20, 1803) Art from Reflecting on The Struggle to Lewis and Clark: Prevent Genocide Contemporary in the American Indian Post-Holocaust Era Viewpoin...

9. I Do Solemnly Swear: Presidential Inaugurations
...nstitution offers a choice. Presidents may "swear" (on a Bible) or "affirm" their oath (on some other book). Two months before Franklin Pierce became President, his family having already lost two children to typhus was involved in a train wreck in which their only surviving child, thirteen-year-old Benjamin, was crushed to death. Jane Pierce believed the accident was a punishment from God for her husband's acceptance of the presidency. As a result, Pierce chose to "affirm" his oath of office on a law book rather than the Bible. An image of Pierce's swearing-in is available through The American President. (Most...

10. Declaration of Independence
...is tricolon parallelism ? Effect: repetition is like a series of punches & opponent has not time to recover 8. Second paragraph is one of the most famous & important statements of basic American values: ? self-evident (obvious), ? inherent (innate), and ? inalienable (unable to be taken away) 9. In Harrison Bergeron, a famous short story by Kurt Vonnegut (1922-?), Vonnegut imagines a future America in which everybody was finally equal : Nobody was smarter than anybody else. Nobody was better looking than anybody else. Nobody was stronger than anybody else. Explore what we think the framers of the Declaration me...