Teacher Page

This page has been created specifically for you, the teacher. Included are some questions to pose to your students as they examine the various documents contained on this CD The following questions are to assign students for further study and research of some of the most important documents ever written. These questions are only to spark your creativity. Feel free to alter these questions in any way you see fit.
The questions are "document-vague" for a reason: The questions were created to not be specific to any one document or documents to allow you assign those questions that best suit your needs.
Please alter these questions to suit your needs.

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Questions

• What is the purpose of this (or these) documents? (For example: what does Hammurabi say is the purpose of the code? What does Jefferson say is the purpose for the Declaration of Independence?)
  
• Pick two, three, four, etc., documents, then compare and contrast them.  What are 3 similarities and 3 differences?
  
• Analyze the documents and determine which rights were important then.
  
• Explain what is meant by __(core democratic value phrase: trial by jury, liberty, etc.)_____ in the following documents?
  
• Criticize the documents, i.e. what was left out, what more could have been done, is there any internal hypocrisy, etc.?
  
• Enumerate 10 core democratic values and which documents does it occur in?  Which is the earliest source (where does it appear first) for each of those CDVs?
  
• Prove _(any CDVS)_ by reading document Y provided.  For example, “where do our rights come from?  Prove it!
  
• Summarize document X.
  
• Outline document X.
  
• Trace the development of habeas corpus through time with these documents, trace freedom of religion, trial by jury, and other rights. Where did they originate? How many documents contain this right?
  
• Who is the author? Do some research and give a brief history and biography.
  
• Read the Declaration of Independence, and name 3 CDVs.  What documents did Jefferson borrow his ideas from?
  
• Describe the situations and events surrounding the writing this (any one) document?
  
• Precisely explain what is meant by pursuit of happiness, self-evident, natural rights, freedom of religion; support your argument with 2 other documents.
  
• State your opinion on a current issue and support it using Doc. X, Y, and Z.  Or using any 3 documents
  
• Discuss, analyze, or enumerate the biblical sources for Document X, Y, or Z.