Graphic Novel: Resources for Teachers

Read Two–2!–Chapters of the Graphic Novel here!

These chapters are on the Electoral College and on pandemics. Talk about timely!

Watch a trailer for Macmillan’s World Citizens Comics series. Fault Lines: The Graphic Novel is the second book to be published.

A Discussion Guide is coming in 2021. Meantime, take a look at the Resources for Teachers for the text version of Fault Lines in the Constitution:

* Use this webinar video we made to show your students how the Constitution relates to current events. Or, hand them this article in the Washington Post.

* Peachtree’s Discussion Guide for the text version is packed with engaging questions, fun activities, and easy printables, including “I Am Constitutionally Literate” stickers!

*School Library Journal published terrific Teaching Ideas for social studies and humanities classrooms.

* Professor Robert Cohen and Stacie Brensilver Berman at New York University’s Steinhardt School prepared standards-based lesson plans with terrific resources and activities on the following topics:

* Illinois Civics teachers developed super Support Materials.

Math teachers: You can find lesson plans, explanations, videos, graphics, and activities galore at “Investigating Gerrymandering and the Math Behind Partisan Maps.”

Blog

Be sure to subscribe to our Fault Lines in the Constitution blog, which updates the book every month. (That’s how timely it is!)

If you would like to work with your students on their blogging (i.e., short opinion essay) skills, take a look at “Finding Faults by Following the Dots,” a blog we posted for a contest we ran.

Games!

The National Archives and Records Administration Education Office has developed terrific games related to the Constitution. Two of them relate directly to Fault Lines in the Constitution.

The Amendment Process Board Game is like Chutes and Ladders. Here are the Instructions.

Can You Change the Constitution? shows older students how difficult the process is, just as we describe in Chapter 18. For this game, you’ll need four 20-sided die. Here are the Game Cards.

Interviews

Many public radio stations interviewed Sandy and me about Fault Lines in the Constitution. Here are links to conversations that are particularly informative:

Presentations

Watch us at the National Archives, the National Book Festival, and the Harvard Law School.

Websites

These websites are especially useful:

Bibliography