Civics/History Quiz Coming up for 6Th Grader

Here's an online quiz that will save you the time:
http://www.constitutionfacts.com/?page=articlesOfConfeder...

If your purpose is to help him study for his upcoming quiz, make sure you're asking him questions that correspond to what he was TAUGHT in school. If there are other ideas you want him to understand and you're looking to supplement his schooling, talk to him about them, have him research etc, but don't QUIZ him.

Does he have class notes? A study guide? A textbook? Worst case, take a look at the curriculum or standards and see what it is he is expected to know on this topic.

I'd use those to generate practice questions.

In terms of what I think is important for a 6th grader to know, I'd say it's most important that they understand the PURPOSE and ROLE of the documents in our history and government. They should know WHY the founders laid out the rights in the Constitution and WHAT those rights are/were. What was happening BEFORE the Revolution, what were they trying to achieve or avoid with the Constitution?

But again, it's going to depend on what you're trying to do with him.

HTH
T.

What immediately preceded the appointment of persons to draft the Articles of Confederation? (The appointing of persons to draft the Declaration of Independence, the day before on June 12, 1776)
What was the main purpose of the Articles of Confederation?
(to legally establish the USA as a confederation of states--political legitimacy when dealing with foreign nations)
Who appointed the members of the committee to draft it? (2nd Continental Congress)
How many people were appointed to draft it? (13)
When did the 2nd Continental Congress approve the draft to be submitted to the states for ratification? (November 15, 1777).
After how much debate? (one year)
When was it sent to the states for ratification? (November, 1777)
When was it formally ratified? (by all 13 states---not until March, 1781)
What was the first state to ratify it? (Virginia - December 16, 1777)
All the other states EXCEPT _____ (Delaware and Maryland) ratified it in 1778.
_____ ratified it in 1779? (Delaware)
_____ was the last state to ratify it on March 1,1781. (Maryland)
What was the special provision for "Province of Quebec/Canada"? (a blanket of acceptance into the U.S. if they decided to join/ratify--they did not.
What was the method of implementing or modifying the Articles? (unanimous approval of all 13 states' legislatures)
What was the major "failure" in the "A of C"? (too weak)
What did it lack? (a president, executive agencies, a judiciary, and a tax base)
What resulted from this weakness/failure? (The U.S. Constitution, which provided for a stronger federal government).
When? (1788)

If you have access to "Study Island" through your son's school, I would go there. They usually have very good study materials for this sort of thing.

Honestly, I found with my son (he is 8th grade now) that in previous years they cared less about "understanding" what it all meant, than they did about dates and specifics, that might correlated to some sort of standardized testing. I always HATED learning anything by dates. I always prefer understanding myself--dates are hard and easily confused. But that typically is what the schools/tests are actually testing. So quiz him on the facts, not so much the "understanding" and how they work.
At least, that was OUR experience.

What IS a Constitution?
What is an amendment?
How many amendments have there been to our Constitution?
How can the Constitution be amended?
What is the Bill of Rights?
Name them.
Which right do you think is the most important (you can only choose 1).
What are the 3 branches of government?
Which branch interprets the Constitution?
Which branch makes the laws?
Which branch enforces the laws?
How old do you have to be to vote?
How old does someone have to be to be elected to Congress?
How old does someone have to be to be elected to the Presidency?
How many Supreme Court justices are there? How many years do they serve?
How long is the term of a Congressperson, Senator, the President?

Did he have some kind of study guide? That's usually the exact stuff on the test.

Good luck Greg!!

you have to go to this website:

www.constitutingamerica.org

this will have everything you need and then some!!!

Give him extra credit if he can say the Preamble by heart. That answers the question, "Why was the Constitution written?" :^)

What did he learn in school? Some learn the importance of WHY, some learn the WHATs.
So if you quiz him on the what's and he learned the why's then he'll study the wrong thing.

I would go to the teacher and the VA SOL requirements, but the website won't have everything.
Maybe see if you can't downlaod last year's SOL for 6th grade HIstory.

The Boston Tea party in March 1774 was a revolt against Britain for taxing the colonists without respresentation. A British brig named Fortune, arrived in Boston Harbor with 28 tea chests on board. A customs collector named Harrison ordered the tea unloaded. His order was carried out the next evening by "Mohawks" who climbed on board and unloaded all of it--into the harbor.

Paul Revere had his midnight ride in April 1775 to warn the people the British were coming. These were some events leading up to the Revolutionary War in 1776.

The Articles of Confederation were written to unite the 13 Originial Colonies.

On June 11, 1776, a meeting of the Continental Congress met in Philadelphia, PA, an appointed a committee to draft the Declaration of Independence: Jefferson, Franklin, Adams, roger Sherman, and Robert R. Livingston.

They call it Jefferson's Declaration of Independence.

The Articles of Confederation and the Continential Congress was in 1787.

May 1787, George Mason, Virginia delegate to the convention, gave the idea of a "legislative, a judiciary, and an executive" branch and the U.S. Constitution was ratified.

Hope this helps.
D.

google schoolhouse rock preamble and how a bill becomes a law. Everything is easier to learn when there's a song attached!

And why it was written!

this might help:

http://www.usconstitution.net/constkids.html