The 27 Amendments
Using non-linguistics to make
learning the amendments
relevant and memorable!
Leah Ashley
New Hanover HS
lashley@nhcs.net
Learners acquire and store
Nonlinguistic knowledge in 2 primary ways:
Representation
1. Linguistic
Nonlinguistic – by reading or hearing lectures
Representation is
an imagery form 2. Nonlinguistic
of representation. – visual imagery
• Visual representations help students
recognize topics
expressed as • kinesthetic: movements
mental pictures & The more students use both systems
physical of representing knowledge, the
sensations better they are able to think about
and recall what they have learned.
(Marzano, Pickering, & Pollock,2001)
Familiar
visuals!
Auditory Movements:
Experiences: Non linguistic
Mind-body
Music! representations connection!
Symbols
Bill of Rights
• The B.o.R. (basic rights)
• Lists rights that ALL citizens (you and
me)get
• All are rights that colonists didn’t get!
• Wrote them to make sure that future
generations will receive these rights
• “…our POSTerity. (post-game)
Amendment 1 (I)
• It’s a RAP!
• RAPPS!
Religion
Assembly
Petition
Press
Speech
You can PRAY ABOUT IT, TALK ABOUT IT IN A
GROUP, WRITE OUR LEADERS ABOUT IT OR
WATCH ITON THE NEWS… EVEN WEAR IT ON A
SHIRT!—THAT’S ALL YOU GOTTA DO! JUST
RAPPS!
Amendment 2 (II)
• How many bare arms do you see?
“WOW!
I SEE 2
BARE
ARMS!”
Amendment 3 (III)
Think: “3” Little PIGS!…You don’t
have to let anyone in!
• Go ahead huff and puff!
Amendment 4 (IV)
• Jay-Z
• (jay-z has 4 letters)
OR
• 4 (JAY-Z)
• before 5 (50 cent)
• I heard "Son do you know why I'm stoppin' you for?"
Cause I'm young and I'm black and my hats real low?
Do I look like a mind reader sir, I don't know
Am I under arrest or should I guess some mo'?
"Well you was doin fifty-five in a fifty-fo' "
"License, registration and step out of the car"
"Are you carryin' a weapon on you I know a lot of you
are"
I ain't steppin out…all my paper's legit
"Well, do you mind if I look round the car a little bit?"
Well my glove compartment is locked so is the trunk in the
back
And I know my rights so you goin' need a warrant for that
"Aren't you sharp as a tack, you some type of lawyer or..
somebody important or somethin'?"
Nah, I ain't pass the bar but I know a little bit
Enough that you won't illegally search my #@%&!
The 99 PROBLEMS LYRICS are the property of the respective authors, artists and labels, the lyrics are provided
for educational purposes only.
Amendment 5 (V)
1. Due Process
2. I plead the 5th! (don’t self
incriminate…yourself?)
3. Double Jeopardy
4. Grand Jury
5. Eminent Domain (house)
I “due” what I gotta “due” in my house, you
don’t have to say a word so hush your
mouth…it’s grand to know that peers will
decide and you will only be in jeopardy
once for that crime… (charged once)
Amendment 6 (V+I)= VI
• 666
• Think something bad
• Even “bad" criminal people will get a
right to a trial by jury
• (criminal cases only)
Amendment 7 (VII)
• 7 rhymes with heaven
• Not criminal cases but civil
• You get a jury trial!
Amendment 8 (VIII)
• I “8” nothing
• Number 8 looks like a paddle
• No cruel and unusual
punishments!
• This includes excessive bails and
fines
• Guess what looks like an 8 too:
–$
Amendment 9
(10 is X so…1 - X) IX
• In case we forgot
any…
• 9 rhymes with
“mine”
• Rights given to
the people…us!
Amendment 10 (X)
•Not for us, but for
the states!
Amendment 11(XI)
•1 1
•S S
•Suits against states
Amendment 12 (XII)
•1 2
•Voting for the #1 man and the
#2 man!
•voting for the Pres and Vice
Pres
Amendment 13 (XIII)
• 13 is an unlucky number
• Being a slave was not good
• Think slavery!
• Abolished it!
Amendment 14 (XIV)
• 1 (one) 4 (four) ALL!
• We are all equal under the law!
• **HUGE!!!!
– Anytime one is not being treated
equally…. Cite the 14th!
– Connect to 5th too! (open your hand!)
Amendment 15
(XV)
• African American
suffrage
• Guess what?
• African American has 15
letters!
– 13, 14 and 15 go together!
Amendment 16 ( XVI)
• Do you like taxes?
• We all are “sick-teen” of
paying taxes!
Amendment 17 (XVII)
•Now we get to
elect senators!
•“Senate-teen”
Amendment 18 (XVIII)
• What can’t you do at 18?
• Drink…
• Prohibition (can’t do)
• **only one that was repealed by
another!
• Repealed-
– you “peel” a banana and then throw it
away...you CANCEL it!
Amendment 20 (XX)
• Terms of president, vp and congress
• President gets inaugurated on Jan. 20!
Amendment 21 (XXI)
• What can you do at 21 years of age?
• Exactly…
• Prohibition is repealed!
Amendment 22 (XXII)
•Pres only
gets two
two!
•Two terms!
Amendment 23 (XXIII)
• People in DC love
23!
• Or, MJ’s number
– He last played for
the…
Amendment 24 (XXIV)
• No poll taxes!
• 2 vote 4 free
Amendment 25 (XXV)
• What if the pres dies or leaves office?
• Rhyme it: “25 president dies”
Amendment 26 (XXVI)
• 18 year olds get suffrage!
• 2 + 6 = 8teen year olds
Amendment 27 (XXVII)
•Rhyme it:
–“Congress would be
in heaven if it wasn’t
for 27!”
Strategies galore!
• Federalism
– Federal and state governments share power over the
people
– Umbrella
• Popular sovereignty
– We rule (everyone gets a crown)
• Federal court system
– SAD
• LEJ-123… say it with me!