31 August 2012 一 Bell Ringer

1. Imagine the following scenario and talk with nearby students about your feelings about the scenario. Additional information will appear when the bell rings. 31 August 2012一 Bell Ringer Freedom! You’ve made it through high school and you are about to move out of your house. You’ve found a pretty good job and will be sharing an apartment with your best friend.

2. Imagine the following scenario and talk with nearby students about your feelings about the scenario. Additional information will appear when the bell rings. 31 August 2012一 Bell Ringer Freedom! You’ve made it through high school and you are about to move out of your house. You’ve found a pretty good job and will be sharing an apartment with your best friend. After helping you move in, your mom/dad/whoever announces that he/she is moving in with you. Does that change your feelings of freedom?

3. 二 Quickthinks Introduction Get out a sheet of paper, head it, and title it “Hey King!” On the back of the paper, write another title: “Hey King! Quickthinks” Have your notes ready for your notes check. I will be walking around during class to see what you have. We will start today’s work on the back of our paper. Please let me know you are ready to continue by staring at the ceiling in the corner of the room near the door.

4. I will assign you into groups of three or four. Move into those groups right away. Your group leader is whoever is the oldest today. You will be reading a worksheet one paragraph at a time. The group leader will read a paragraph to the group and stop for a quickthink. Quickthinks are a way of writing your first impressions so that you remember what you were thinking at the time. Quickthink notes are a great way to experience music, sports, and television. It is a lot like tweeting. The group leader will share his or her quickthink with the group. The other members of the group can write down the leader’s quickthink or come up with their own. A quickthink is like a main idea. Try to focus your quickthinks on the paragraph you just read. If there is something linked to a previous paragraph, you may talk about that in your quickthink. 二 Quickthinks Introduction

5. Leader reads the first paragraph on the first page and the group follows along. • After the leader has read, the leader does a quickthink. The rest of the group can either: • Write what the leader said - or - • Share their own quickthink with the group. • The person to the leader’s left reads the next paragraph and then does a quickthink. • Continue until you finish reading “Hey King!” • Done reading? Send the last person who read to get the next activity. 三 Hey King! Reading

6. Done reading? Send the last person who read to get the next activity. Phrases to Know instructions • On the front of your “Hey King!” paper, copy 1-6 onto your paper so they look like this: • Unalienable rights are ___________________________ • Pursuit of happiness is ___________________________ • Natural rights are ______________________________ • Consent of the governed means _____________________ • Just powers are ________________________________ • Self-evident means _____________________________ • Use the definitions in A-F to finish those sentences. When everyone in the group has does this, send one person with EVERY group member’s paper to the front for the next activity (五 Reconstructing the Declaration). 四 Phrases to Know

7. Done already? Copy the following down onto your paper, filling in the blanks with these vocabulary words:abolish consent equal evident happinessliberty life people powers rights We hold these truths to be self-_______________, that all men are created ______________, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable _______________, that among these are ____________, _____________, and the pursuit of ________________________. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just _______________ from the ______________ of the governed, That whenever any form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the ______________ to alter or ________________ it . . . .