What You Will Learn
Strategies
You will be using many reading and writing strategies to complete this lesson. The key strategies that you will focus on are:
- Categorizing basic facts and ideas
- Making inferences
Goals
Here are the big ideas you will learn about in this lesson:
- The U.S. Constitution divides the U.S. government into three branches with different roles
- The three branches were created to prevent any one person or group from controlling the government
- The three branches of the U.S. government are connected and have shared responsibilities
Vocabulary
Read these words and their definitions. When you see them, you may click on them to read the definition again.
