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The first day of school is the most important day of the year — and not because of your syllabus. It's important because it's the day students decide whether your class is worth caring about. For 8th-grade civics teachers, that first day is also your best chance to establish what your class is really about: the document that still governs 330 million Americans, over 235 years after it was written. Following are five ways to introduce the Constitution on Day One — without losi