Making Civics Real: A Workshop for Teachers
Constitutional Convention
Matt Johnson teaches an AP Comparative Government class to seniors at Benjamin Banneker Senior High School in Washington, DC. In this lesson, his 12th-grade students create a constitution for a hypothetical country called Permistan. Matt Johnson uses this lesson to help students review for their final exam and the AP exam by having them draw on what they have learned during the semester about international governments. Students work in cooperative learning groups to discuss and debate issues relating to the executive and legislative branches of government. The lesson closes with a simulation of a constitutional convention. Simulation is the primary methodology highlighted in this lesson.
Test Your Knowledge (Before Watching)
Constitutional Convention — Quiz
Take this quiz to test your knowledge about the topics discussed in this workshop.
The estimated Federal government income/revenue for 2002 was $2,192 billion. Social insurance payroll taxes and income taxes combined accounted for how much of this total?