1. Warm Up: What is the Declaration of Independence?
What would the historical figure you are studying think of it?

2. What was the purpose of the Declaration of Independence?
Today’s Question:
What was the purpose of the Declaration of Independence?

3. Agenda Reader’s theater Declaration Notes
In groups: Discuss key philosophies of the Declaration of Independence
Draw pictures of the key philosophies
Book group meetings

4. Events Causing Unrest:
Stamp Act
Proclamation of 1763
Continental Congress
Boston Tea Party
Quartering Act
Boston Massacre
Lexington and Concord
Intolerable Acts

5. “Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death!” Virginia, 1775
What is the main point of Patrick Henry’s speech?
How will patriots react?
How will the loyalists and British react?

6. Second Continental Congress

7. The Committee of Five Ben Franklin Thomas Jefferson Robert Livingston
Roger
Sherman
John
Adams

8. Declaration of Independence

9. While we are reading…
What was the purpose of the Declaration of Independence?
Who participated in writing it?
What important issues did the writers discuss?
What groups of people were excluded from the rights guaranteed in the Declaration?

10. Declaration of Independence https://www. youtube. com/watch
The purpose of the Declaration of Independence was to tell the world that the colonies were breaking away from __________ __________. In the Declaration, Thomas Jefferson wrote about the problems with King __________ government, and the type of government he wanted for the new country. Many of Jefferson’s ideas on government were taken from the writings of_____________ philosophers. Several groups of people were excluded from the rights guaranteed in the declaration, including ____________ and ____________ ______________.

11. In Groups:
Match the pictures with the key philosophies of the Declaration of Independence
With your group, discuss what you think each one means
Write your answer in the “what I think it means” box

12. Four key philosophies of the Declaration of Independence
Philosophy
What I think it means
What it actually means
People have certain “unalienable rights” (rights that cannot be taken away)—to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness
People establish government to protect these rights

13. Four key philosophies of the Declaration of Independence
Government derives power from the people
People have a right and a duty to change a government that violates their rights

14. On the left side of your notebook:
Write one key philosophy of the Dec of Ind. in each box. Draw a picture to represent that philosophy!

15. Proclamation of 1763 OR Quartering Act?
Which happened first?
Proclamation of 1763 OR Quartering Act?

16. What was the first battle of the Revolutionary War?

17. Who wrote the Declaration of Independence?

18. Who gave the speech “Give me Liberty or Give me Death?”

19. What is the Quartering Act?

20. What act said that colonists could not cross the Appalachian Mountains?

21. What happened at the Boston Massacre?

22. Why did Britain begin taxing the colonists?

23. What did loyalists believe?

24. What happened at the Boston Tea Party?