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Reading for Understanding
Key Ideas
Objectives
BEFORE, YOU LEARNED
NOW YOU WILL LEARN
• Describe the growth of English rights
between 1215 and the late 1600s.
The British colonies shared a unique
culture shaped by prosperity, literacy,
and new movements in religion and
thought.
American democracy has its roots in
the English tradition of representative
government.
• Identify issues which created conflicts
between England and the colonies over
colonists’ rights
Vocabulary
TERMS & NAMES
BACKGROUND VOCABULARY
Magna Carta charter of English political and
civil liberties
prominent important and well-known
heritage tradition
Parliament England’s chief lawmaking body
Read for the Essential Question
Help students read for a purpose by reminding
them of the Essential Question: “What
traditions, events, and forces helped form an
American identity?”
Vocabulary
Best Practices Toolkit
Use the Best Practices Toolkit to model
strategies for vocabulary notetaking. Vary
strategies throughout the year. Choose
from: Knowledge Rating, Predicting ABC’s,
Definition Mapping, Word Sort, Word Wheel,
Frayer Model (Word Squares), Magnet
Words, and Student VOC.
Vocabulary Strategies, TT9–TT16
Edmund Andros English governor appointed
to rule the reorganized northern colonies
Glorious Revolution events of 1688–1689,
during which the English Parliament invited
William and Mary to replace James II as
monarchs
English Bill of Rights 1689 laws protecting
the rights of English subjects and Parliament
John Peter Zenger New York publisher who
was taken to court for criticizing the governor
of New York
Visual Vocabulary
Magna Carta
Reading Strategy
Re-create the diagram shown at
right. As you read and respond
to the KEY QUESTIONS, use the
diagram to describe how each
document or event strengthened
English rights over the centuries.
Reading Strategy
SEQUENCE EVENTS
1215
Magna
Carta
1688
Glorious
Revolution
1735 Zenger
trial
establishes
freedom of the
press
See Skillbuilder Handbook, page R5.
Best Practices Toolkit
GRAPHIC ORGANIZERS
Display the Sequence Chain transparency.
Remind students that sequencing events
involves placing events in chronological
order. Tell them they will refer to the
information in the boxes and use it to help
describe the development of English rights.
• Model filling in events, using the time line
on pp. 124–125.
• Have students suggest entries, placing the
events in chronological order.
• Display the graphic organizer for students
to review.
Sequence Chain, TT31
Go to Interactive Review @ ClassZone.com
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PRETEACHING VOCABULARY
English Learners
Inclusion
Pronounce and Preview
Terms and Names Read-Along
Pronounce each term for students.
Review the meanings of words within
definitions, such as charter, civil, and
subjects.
Have students read each term and its
definition into an audio recorder. Have
them play back the recording and follow
along with the words in their textbooks.
Then have students use each term and
name in a sentence.
• To modify vocabulary learning, have
students complete worksheets as they
read, instead of afterward.
Unit 2 Resource Book
• Building Background Vocabulary,
p. 166
• Vocabulary Practice, p. 165
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Roots of American
Democracy
Focus & Motivate
3-Minute Warm-Up
Write on the board or use the transparency:
• Is the statement below true or false? Explain.
The Magna Carta and the U.S. Bill of Rights are
similar documents.
Unit 2 Transparency Book
• 3-Minute Warm-Ups, TT11
One American’s Story
In 1688, the minister Increase Mather sailed from Massachusetts
to England with a complaint. The colonists believed that the new
royal governor had trampled their rights as English subjects.
Eventually, Mather came home with a new charter that restored
colonists’ rights.
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One American’s Story
More About . . .
PRIMARY SOURCE
Increase Mather
For all English liberties are restored to them: No Persons
shall have a Penny of their Estates taken from them; nor
any Laws imposed on them, without their own Consent by
Representatives chosen by themselves.
Increase Mather served for more than 15
years as Harvard College’s sixth president,
the same school from which he graduated
at the age of 17.
”
—Increase Mather, quoted in The Last American Puritan
The English rights guaranteed by the Magna Carta and later
documents are the basis for the rights that we enjoy today.
The Rights of Englishmen
Increase Mather
KEY QUESTION How were English rights strengthened over the centuries?
3 Teach
The Rights of Englishmen
Think, Pair, Share
Throughout the colonies, free Americans enjoyed the rights and liberties of
English subjects. England had one of the most advanced political democracies in Europe, and English freedoms were envied throughout the world.
The American colonists were fiercely protective of these freedoms, which
they called the “rights of Englishmen.” The shared belief in certain legal and
political principles helped tie the colonies together.
• How were colonial governments similar to
and different from England’s Parliament?
(Colonial assemblies were elected, like the
House of Commons; assemblies did not have
an unelected group like the House of Lords.)
Justice and Self-Government English rights had been developing for centuries. The first step toward guaranteeing these rights came in 1215. That year,
English nobles forced King John to sign the Magna Carta (Great Charter). By
signing this document, the king agreed that he was not above the law. Like
everyone else, the king had to obey the laws of the land.
Beginnings of an American Identity 137
• Sequence Events Place these events in
chronological order: Parliament passed laws
without colonists’ consent; colonial assemblies
formed; Magna Carta signed (Magna Carta
signed; colonial assemblies formed; Parliament
passed laws without colonists’ consent)
SECTION 2 PROGRAM RESOURCES
ON LEVEL
Unit 2 Resource Book
• Reading Study Guide, p. 143
• Skillbuilder Practice, p. 167
• Section Quiz, p. 184
STRUGGLING READERS
Unit 2 Resource Book
• RSG with Additional Support,
p. 149
• Section Quiz, p. 184
• Reteaching Activity, p. 187
eEdition with Audio DVD-ROM
ENGLISH LEARNERS
Pupil Edition in Spanish
eEdition with Audio DVD-ROM
eEdition in Spanish DVD-ROM
Unit 2 Resource Book
• RSG (Spanish), p. 155
• RSG with Additional Support
(Spanish), p. 161
Multi-Language Glossary
Test Generator
• Section Quiz in Spanish
INCLUSION
Unit 2 Resource Book
• RSG with Additional Support,
p. 149
• Section Quiz, p. 184
• Reteaching Activity, p. 187
GIFTED & TALENTED
Unit 2 Resource Book
• Section Quiz, p. 184
• Readers Theater, pp. 203–213
PRE-AP
Unit 2 Resource Book
• Connect to Today, p. 175
• Section Quiz, p. 184
TECHNOLOGY
Unit 2 Transparency Book
• 3-Minute Warm-Ups, TT11
• Fine Art, TT12
• Geography, TT13
• Cause-and-Effect Chapter Summary,
TT14
• Essential Question Graphic, TT15
Daily Test Practice Transparencies
• Chapter 5, Section 2, TT17
Power Presentations
ClassZone.com
American History Video Series
Teacher’s Edition • 137