The Project

Choose one from among the 11th - 27th Amendments to the United States Constitution. Create a PowerPoint project with sound and video that addresses the following components:

Components of the Project

Who was involved in the issue addressed by the proposal? Who helped pass the amendment?
What was its purpose? What was the issue that prompted the proposal?
When did it happen (time period in history, when proposed, when passed, when ratified)?
Where did the issue(s) originally take place? Where was the amendment finally passed?
Why was it proposed (What situation existed to make the amendment desired or necessary?)?
How was it passed?
How was it structured?-
How did the passage of the amendment change American culture?
   Did it solve the problem it was created to address?

Also include:
   Any famous people involved in the amendment’s cause, creation, or legal results
   Any major court cases concerning the amendment

Useful Resources

Constitutional Amendments
The Amendments Listed
Findlaw
History of the Amendments
Failed Amendments
Wikipedia - The Amendments
Infoplease - Amendments
Avalon Project
US House of Representatives
FindLaw.com
US Constitution Online

Further Resources:

Questions about the American Revolution or the US Constituion, including unique trivia about our founding fathers

Questions about the Amendments, branches of government, or about your own rights

About the founding fathers, including primary source descriptions written by men of the time, including links to the events that led up to the making of the constitution - Daniel Shays' Rebellion and the problems with the Articles of Confederation

A search directory developed by librarians specifically for students provides many web sites on the following topics: the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, the Founding Fathers, the stories of how the Constitution was made, and more

http://americanhistory.about.com/msub1.htm?pid=2765&cob=home

http://www.nara.gov/exhall/charters/charters.html

Editing Considerations

1. Google is NOT a source site for the Works Cited page.
2. Proofreading is important, as well as grammar, punctuation, and sentence structure.
3. Pictures and music have to be relevant. Text must also make sense.
4. Be sure to save all multimedia resources in a common project folder. Further organization of the project into subfolders is recommended.
5. Practice to control speed. You control the PowerPoint; don’t let it control you.

Outside resources used to develop the project:

Amendments to the Constitution
The Living Constitution Project