Revolutions and the Language of Rights, 1750-1850: Social Studies Unit 3, Grade 10 (Letters & Devotion)

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Revolutions and the Language of Rights, 1750-1850 is Unit 3 of Patterns of Power: A World History Survey, c. 1200-Present (Part 1) (Grade 10), the Letters & Devotion Social Studies course, complete in one printable PDF: 9 lessons, the unit check-up and the answer key, 76 pages.

• The definitions and originating thinkers of natural rights, popular sovereignty, and the social contract
• Clauses within the three founding documents and the political theory concepts they express
• The mismatch between founding-document rhetoric and contemporaneous legal status for a named group
• The structural causes of differing outcomes for enslaved populations across the Haitian and U.S. Revolutions
• The general relationship between pre-existing economic/social structure and which groups gain legal rights after a revolution
• Nationalism as an exclusionary, mobilizing political idea (as distinct from patriotism)
• The rhetoric-vs-structural-condition analytic frame, applied to an untaught revolutionary case
• The procedure for completing a three-column structural comparison chart from primary and secondary sources
• A comparative thesis statement addressing legal-rights outcomes across the three revolutions

Every lesson is written for a parent with no teaching background: it opens with a short script to read aloud, names the specific wrong idea a student is likely to reach for and how to correct it, and closes with a practice sheet you may copy for your household. Scripture references are King James Version throughout. Black-and-white, 8.5 x 11 in. The whole year of this course is also in this store as a single book.

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