Subject(s): Music, Social Studies Grades(s): Grades 4-5

Title – Bill of Rights Song
By – Tatia Williams
Primary Subject – Social Studies
Secondary Subjects – Music
Grade Level – 4th

General Unit Objective: (frameworks)

4.3          The learner will demonstrate an understanding of the foundations of American democracy, including its basic principles and the foundations of the American political system.
4.4          The learner will demonstrate an understanding of the role of the U.S. Constitution in American democracy, including the ways in which the U.S. government established by the Constitution embodies the purposes, values and principles of American democracy.

Specific Objective:    The learner will Gain An oral and written understanding in an easy format of the rights in the Bill of Rights..

Materials:
          Paper of rights in Twelve days of Christmas song format.

Procedures:

Procedures 1:           The teacher will hand out a page with a song of the Bill of Rights. She will read the rights to her students. She will then have them sing it several times looking at the paper. Then she will have them try not to look and sing the song. The teacher can have students copy onto large paper as well.
There will be no homework.

Assessment:1-          The teacher will give a weekly review quiz and a chapter test at the end of the chapter.

Song:
Bill of Rights
The 1st 10 amendments to the Constitution on 1791.
A song. Music from the Twelve days of Christmas.

Refrain:
The ___ amendment of the Constitution says (doing numbers 1 through 10).

1) Freedom of Speech and Religion
2) Militia and Arms
3) No quartered soldiers
4) No search and seizure
5) Right to D-U-E P-R-O-C-E-S-S
6) Jury in Civil Court
7) Right to a Jury
8) No cruel Punishments
9) Basic human rights
10) Unlisted powers for people and states

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