New Nation and Government Nonfiction Articles and How I do Interactive Notes in our Social Studies Journals {Opportunity to WIN!}

Whoa!!  Three posts in one week!!!  Shocking, right???

Well, you asked and I have delivered!  So many of you have been so sweet with your feedback of our Causes of the American Revolution and Events of the American Revolution nonfiction articles!  And then, you asked for more S.S. units!

Well, here is another unit!  New Nation and Government!  Take a look at what's included:

Here is an example of the articles with the flipbooks:

Sometimes I use the flipbook but other times we take interactive notes.  It just depends on how much information is in the passage and how much I feel is important for them to remember.  Here are what our interactive notes look like:

I have mentioned this before HERE but in case you want a refresher, this is how we organize our notes:
I read over the article (beforehand) and decide how I want to break it up into sections.  It's USUALLY by paragraph, but sometimes I chunk more together depending on how much meat each paragraph has.  I could have chunked all the legislative section together, all the executive together, and all the judicial together, but it was too much information.  I wanted to switch colors so the different aspects of each branch stood out.  So for each section I find important, I change the color of the marker or colored pencil.

Whenever possible, we draw pictures.  But sometimes, like with government, it's difficult to draw a picture.  So, we include words.

If you have any questions about how we do this, just let us know!  We'd be happy to go into more detail!!

If you can use these nonfiction articles for your New Nation and Government unit, you can check them out in our TpT Store.  Or...you can pin it to win it!!  Yep, you got it!!  You have the chance to win them!!

Here is the pin:  http://www.pinterest.com/pin/515451119824823686/

Click on the pin and repin it.  Then, copy the URL of your pin and paste it in the comments.  Also, leave your email address so if you win, I know where to send it!  I'll choose two winners!!  

I hope everyone enjoys the 4th of July tomorrow!!  A big thank you goes out to all of the men and women who serve our country to keep us free!!