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Wednesday Sep. 8, 2010

U.S. History : Mr. Paulson. Wednesday Sep. 8, 2010. Spark # 12/13?? Collect work from Friday (and Webquest if not already DOI Group Work-Primary Source Grievances. Daily Agenda. 1. Who wrote the Declaration of Independence? What else do you know about this person?

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Wednesday Sep. 8, 2010

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  1. U.S. History : Mr. Paulson Wednesday Sep. 8, 2010

  2. Spark # 12/13?? Collect work from Friday (and Webquest if not already DOI Group Work-Primary Source Grievances Daily Agenda

  3. 1. Who wrote the Declaration of Independence? • What else do you know about this person? • 2. What are its major parts? How many? • **hint-look at paragraph breaks and structure • 3. Put yourself in the position of the 2nd Continental Congress (colonists), what are advantages and disadvantages of declaring independence? Spark # 12/13

  4. Advantages/Disadvantages • Advantages • Possible foreign aid from France • Legitimacy in world community • Captured soldiers treated as POWs not spies or rebels • Independence might unite different areas of colonies • Make clear to world the ideology America based upon • Disadvantages • Might lose friends in England • Division within colonies? • If Rev. failed the leaders would be executed • Colonies POORLY prepared for war

  5. 8 groups – 4 sections = 2 groups per section • Your task • What is the main point of your section? • What is the writer trying to say? • Put it in your own words • Why is your section important? • Are there words/phrases that you don’t understand Group work – Primary Source

  6.  [He has incited treasonable insurrections of our fellow citizens, with the allurements of forfeiture and confiscation of our property.    He has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating its most sacred rights of life and liberty in the persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivatng and carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere, or to incur miserable death in their transportation thither. This piratical warfare, the opprobrium of INFIDEL powers, is the warfare of the CHRISTIAN king of Great Britain. Determined to keep open a market where MEN should be bought and sold, he has prostituted his negative for suppressing every legislative attempt to prohibit or to restrain this execrable commerce. And that this assemblage of horrors might want no fact of distinguished die, he is now exciting those very people to rise in arms among us, and to purchase that liberty of which he has deprived them, by murdering the people for whom he also obtruded them: thus paying off former crimes committed against the LIBERTIES of one people, with crimes which he urges them to commit against the LIVES of another.] Removed…Why??

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