The Bill of Rights (A True Book: American History)

by Christine Taylor-Butler

Overview

Learn how The Bill of Rights came to be.

A True Book: American History series allows readers to experience the earliest moments in American history and to discover how these moments helped shape the country that it is today. This series includes an age appropriate (grades 3-5) introduction to curriculum-relevant subjects and a robust resource section that encourages independent study.This book recounts the origins of individual rights in the colonies and the effort to add explicitly stated rights to the Constitution, accomplished in its first ten amendments, and discusses their meaning and the extension of citizen's rights to all Americans.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780531147771
Publisher:	Scholastic, Inc.
Publication date:	03/01/2008
Series:	A True Book (Relaunch)
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	48
Product dimensions:	7.13(w) x 8.38(h) x (d)
Lexile:	710L (what's this?)
Age Range:	8 - 10 Years

About the Author

Taylor-Butler studied both engineering and art & design at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Table of Contents

It's All About Rights: What's so special about rights?     7
Running the United States: We've won the war. Now what do we do?     15
It's Not Finished Yet!: They left rights out of the Constitution. How did they fix that?     23
Amending the Constitution: What if people try to change it in some wacky ways?     28
Rights for the People: What's in the Bill of Rights, and why should we care about it?     30
True Statistics     43
Resources     44
Important Words     46
Index     47
About the Author     48