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Objective…. We will decide whether Thomas Paine’s Common Sense actually makes common sense using primary sources, partner collaboration, and a matrix . Preview. Write about something that you know is common sense. Write about something EVERYBODY knows

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  1. Objective… We will decide whether Thomas Paine’s Common Sense actually makes common sense using primary sources, partner collaboration, and a matrix.

  2. Preview • Write about something that you know is common sense. • Write about something EVERYBODY knows • (Ex. Earth revolves around the Sun)

  3. Preview: • Explain one concept that is common sense.

  4. Common Sense By: Thomas Paine

  5. Who Am I? • Immigrated to North America • Became Revolutionary writer and philosopher • Wrote the influential pamphlet “Common Sense” • Wrote a series of essays titled Crisis • Supported the French Revolution

  6. Who Am I? • Thomas Paine

  7. Excerpt A • “I have heard it asserted by some, that America hath flourished under her former connection with Great Britain, the same connection is necessary towards her future happiness, and will always have the same effect. Nothing can be more fallacious than this kind of argument.”

  8. Excerpt B “We have boasted the protection of Great Britain without considering that her motive was interest, not attachment; and that she did not protect us from our enemies on our account, but from her own enemies on her own account…”

  9. Excerpt C “But Britain is the parent country, say some. Then the more shame upon her conduct. Even brutes do not devour their young, nor savages make war upon their families…”

  10. Excerpt D “I challenge the warmest advocate for reconciliation, to show a single advantage that this continent can reap, by being connected with Great Britain. I repeat the challenge; not a single advantage is derived.”

  11. Excerpt E • “Small Islands, not capable of protecting themselves, are the proper objects for kingdoms to take under their care; but there is something absurd, in supposing a continent to be perpetually governed by an island. In no instance hath nature made the satellite larger than its primary planet.”

  12. Excerpt F “Nothing but independence…can keep the peace of the continent…A government of our own is our natural right: and when a man seriously reflects on the precariousness of human affairs, he will become convinced, that it is infinitely wiser and safer, to form a constitution of our own in a cool and deliberate manner, while we have it in our power…”

  13. Tuesday – Copy Definitions • absurd – a situation without reason or logic or common sense • fallacious – intended to deceive; false • flourish – growing with steady progress • precarious – not secure; unstable • reconciliation – ending of a conflict and coming back together again; reunion

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