Students will pick one amendment from the Bill of Rights to write 1-2 paragraph explaining a vocabulary word or concept in the chosen amendment. They will explain the meaning of the concept or vocabulary word in the amendment and then rephrase it into more modern terms. They will include some contrasting words or ideas to strengthen their explanation. For full points students will need to include at least two of the following: -compare and contrast with more familiar words -discuss what the word or concept does not mean -identify common meaning that an average person may use -provide examples of ways in which the word or concept is used today
-provide a personal example

Students will write 1-2 paragraphs (4-5 sentences each minimum) for full credit.

Read the excerpt from the land. in the late afternoon i did the same, but all the time i was on the stallion, i was aware that mitchell was watching me. he had appeared on the edge of the woods and had just stood there watching ghost wind and me as we went round and round the meadow. finally, on one of our turns past him, he said: "s'pose you thinkin' you a real somebody 'cause you can ride that stallion." i looked down at mitchell and stopped, knowing that despite our understanding, he was itching for a fight with me. now, i don't know what possessed me in that moment to say the next thing i did. maybe i was feeling guilty that because i was my daddy's son, i could ride ghost wind. maybe it was that, but it wasn't out of fear i said what i said. i no longer was afraid of mitchell. "you want to ride him? " i asked. mitchell took a step backward. it was obvious he hadn't expected me to say that. "you know i can't ride him," he said. "your white daddy'd kill me." "you want to ride him? " i asked again. mitchell looked at the stallion, then at me. "so, what if i do? " what intrinsic motivation does the author most likely intend the reader to infer from the passage? paul is motivated by his need to have mitchell praise his riding skills. mitchell is motivated by his need to have paul praise his riding skills. paul is motivated by jealousy and wishes he had free time like mitchell. mitchell is motivated by jealousy and wishes he could ride the horse.