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Dirksen Center: A Bill Becomes a Law Unit PlanDirksen Center: A Bill Becomes a Law Unit Plan
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The Dirksen Congressional Center
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Grade
9th - 10th
Subjects
Social Studies & History
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Unit Plans
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Lexile Measures
1220L
Unit Plan

Dirksen Center: A Bill Becomes a Law

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Learning module on how a bill becomes a law offers students an alternative and in-depth approach to learning about the legislative process through text, graphics, and video .

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CCSS: Designed

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congressional committee, how a bill becomes law, legislative process, ccss.ela-literacy.rh.6-8.3, identify key steps in a text's description of a process related to history/social studies, legislative branch, oh.ela-literacy.rh.6-8.3, the dirksen congressional center, committees and subcommittees

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  • Knovation Readability Score: 5 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)
  • The intended use for this resource is Instructional
  • This resource is only available on an unencrypted HTTP website.It should be fine for general use, but don’t use it to share any personally identifiable information

Common Core

RH.6-8.3 RH.6-8.4 RH.6-8.5 RH.11-12.1 RH.11-12.4 RH.11-12.5

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