Scenario Response 1

Text: Anti Federalist vs Federalist

Question: What were the weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation?

Preproduction stage: draw a picture of the weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation (ex: no government, no national court system, no power to tax)

Early Production: choose a vocabulary that describes the first American government (ex: weak)

Speech emergence: why did the Anti Federalist want to keep the AOC?

Intermediate fluency: find the definitions of the highlighted words using context clues in the reading.

Advanced fluency: answer the question in three or more sentences, what were the weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation?