a webquest for stage 4 students
Use the following links to investigate your question.
BOOKS - these are available in your school
Discovering Democracy Australian Readers Lower Secondary Collection, Who Should Rule?, "Prince Shotoku's Constitution", p. 3; Thomas Paine, "The Rights of Man"., p. 4; "The People", p. 7; "The People, Two Philosophers debate democracy", pp. 8-9; William Golding, "Lord of the Flies", pp. 10-11.
Discovering Democracy Australian Readers Middle Secondary Collection, Political People, "The Gettysburg Address".
INTERNET
DICTIONARIES AND ENCYCLOPAEDIAS
http://dictionary.cambridge.org/
http://www.britannica.com/GENERAL RESOURCES ON THE NATIVE AMERICAN AND USA CONFEDERACY, CONSTITUTION AND DEMOCRACY
http://www.kahonwes.com/iroquois/document1.html
a long, scholarly document but well worth the read for it answers the question straight away and directlyhttp://www.sixnations.org/
a website of the Haudenosaunee or the People involved today in the Confederacy but tells some of the history of the Confederacyhttp://www.ratical.org/many_worlds/6Nations/
a website put out by interested people showing the direct connection between the Six Nations Confederacy and the American Confederacyhttp://www.schoolnet.ca/aboriginal/7gen/index-e.html
a schoolnet site about the Mohawk Nation. Search down the page for a link to the Confederacyhttp://greatcanadianrivers.com/rivers/grand/history-home.html
a very brief summary of the topichttp://www.carnegiemuseums.org/cmnh/exhibits/north-south-east-west/iroquois/
an on-line museum exhibit of the Iroquois - follow the Sovereign People linkhttp://www.usembassy.de/usa/government-constitution.htm
a USA government website for kids. Follow the link at the bottom of the right hand box to read about the history of the formation of the confederation and the constitution of the USAhttp://www.constitutioncenter.org/index.shtml
a museum website, when you link to it, click on the Explore the Constitution button and then follow the links on the left hand side to the Origins of the Constitution
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