1. Thomas Paine

2. Thomas paine biography
Read the biography on page 85 of your literature book and write 5 interesting facts on your handout.
10 minutes

3. Thomas Paine Biography continued

4. Quotes about life

5. Religion

6. Revolution

7. The liberty tree
In this ballad, written in 1775, Paine memorializes a famous 130-year-old elm tree that stood near Boston Common, under whose canopy defiant colonists rallied to discuss and demonstrate their discontent, and which was cut down by the British that same year. Thanks in no small part to Paine, the liberty tree lives on, figuratively and literally. “Liberty trees” were subsequently planted in hundreds of towns in every colony, liberty poles were erected that flew flags bearing images of the liberty tree, and the tree itself became (and remains) an international symbol of freedom.

8. The Liberty tree (ballad)

9. The Crisis, No. 1 vocabulary
Tyranny
Consolation
Celestial
Impious
Relinquished
Pretense
Dominion

10. The Crisis no. 1—REAding
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