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THIRTEEN AMERICAN ARGUMENTSEnduring Debates That Define and Inspire Our CountryHoward Fineman ** WHO IS A PERSON? **
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Develop a lesson plan that moves the students from lower to higher levels of thinking. Complete the following template.

Controlling Question What is a person?

Overview of Lesson 1. Introduce 14th Amendment and Declaration of Independence, focus on words like citizen and person

2. Ask the students: John Locke thinks every person is born with natural rights…write down 5 natural rights that EVERY person has.

3. Introduce students to an example in American history where the definition of a person has changed 3/5th Compromise How many people are in this class? 30 So every person in this class counts as a person? Lets go back to 1787, can anyone explain what the 3/5th Compromise was? Have 18 students stand up and explain that when the Constitution was written, if this class was entirely African Americans only the students standing around them would be a person.

4. Quick overview of African American History (slavery, Civil War, Jim Crow, segregation, Civil Rights Movement, today)

5. How does this change your definition of a person? Who gets to define who is a person?

women, African Americans, Native Americans, Youth, Potential terrorists, Muslims, LGBT, illegal immigrants, corporations, fetuses
 * 6. List** other groups have not gotten the recognition as a person throughout history?

7. Break into groups and assign each group one of these categories and a resource about that category. Have them outline the history of the debate over that group of people.

8. Bring it back together and have students analyze, compare and discuss their finding

Objectives (skills and content) Students will:

Observe how the definition of personhood has changed over the years Outline the arguments and events which have influenced what defines a person in the US Compare commonalities between different issues.



Lesson Activities & Materials: Match the Objectives to the Learning Activities


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