Lesson and Test TEKS: 8.1C, 8.4 B,C, 8.16A,C,D, 8.3A, 8.20A

If your prefer to teach this in two short segments:

• Questions 1- 32 in the Reading Study Guide cover settlement through the Treaty of Paris.
  
• Questions 33 – 64 in the Reading Study Guide cover the Articles of Confederation through the Ratification of the Constitution.
  
• At the conclusion of the lesson, you may want to refer to the complaints listed on page 2 of the reading, and then, look at Article III, Section 1 of the Constitution (Supreme Court Justices’ tenure and compensation) and the Bill of Rights. Students should be able to determine how colonial complaints were addressed in the Constitution. (This is an extension and interpretation for TEK 8.16 C) Also, if you have “Read and Understand the Constitution,” a set of guided reading lessons for the Constitution by Barbara Jennings this is a good place to teach those lessons.
  
• This is a good time to allow students to perform the play, The Constitutional Convention, a Dramatization by Barbara Jennings from Rayco Publishing