Choose a focused civics practice task

Your teacher will select this page if you need to separate who receives a letter from who is asked to act. Use the Graffort card and original. This source appeared in the lesson; this is practice, not a new-source check.

1. Make three labeled notes: who receives the letter; who is asked to revoke the permit; who is urged to defeat a bill. Give a source detail for each requested action.

2. Complete in your own words: The letter’s recipient is ____. The resolution also asks ____ to ____ and ____ to ____. The source establishes ____; it does not establish ____.

Check your explanation

Read your notes back to a partner or teacher. Do you distinguish executive officials from legislators without claiming the requested action actually occurred?

If request and law are mixed up

Use the bill and Act cards. Write three separate labels: proposal; approved legal grant; required step before construction. Put a source detail under each label. Then explain why the phrase “Be it enacted” cannot decide status by itself.

If the main distinctions are secure

Use the Merced resolution and Act. Form a question about the connection between a request and a law. Name two additional records you would look for, and describe what each would need to show. Do not claim the records exist or invent their answers. You may choose committee discussion of a requested condition, a vote record, or map-approval and construction records.

For either task: state one conclusion the supplied documents support and one they leave open. These are familiar-source tasks; a later check uses another resolution.