1. Hispanic Heritage Month

2. What is the Constitution? The Constitution is a document that was written many years ago that tells the laws for the United States of America.

3. Who wrote the Constitution? Our Founding Fathers wrote the Constitution.

4. Can you believe that this young girl helps make laws for the United States, too?

5. She is Sonia Sotomayor, the first Hispanic Supreme Court Justice.

6. Sonia Sotomayor was born in New York. Her parents were both from Puerto Rico.

9. She grew up near Yankee Stadium and loves to go to baseball games.

10. When Sonia Sotomayor was a little girl she read Nancy Drew books and wanted to be a detective when she grew. But when she was 10 years old she had changed her mind and knew she would be a lawyer.

11. She was very smart and did well in school. She went to Princeton University and the to Yale Law School.

12. In 2009, she was chosen by President Obama to be the first Hispanic American Supreme Court Justice. She helps make the laws for our country.

13. Now she is a member of the court that makes the rules for our country.