1. Review Parallel Structure
Mr. President, I want to let you know something. One group, one person or one ideology does not hold responsibility for the government shutdown. It is the whole governmental body – the House, the Senate, the Republicans, the Democrats and you. You all share the blame equally.
All of you squabble and fight over political motives, strategies, ideas. Yet you do not care what is in the best interest of the people you allegedly represent. What you are collectively doing to this nation is bleeding it dry. It is sick and it is wrong.
I echo the words that started this country – taxation without representation. I also call upon my fellow Americans to write your representatives. Tell them how wrong this is. Tell them to fix it. Represent us.
Identify the parallel structure in this letter. What is the Author’s claim? What evidence does he give to support his claim? Justify your response (explain why/how your evidence proves this claim.

2. What will we learn today?
Learn how to structure/organize an effective persuasive speech by identifying the structure Jefferson uses in the “Declaration of Independence”
Learn how to use ethos, pathos, logos, and parallel structure to create an effective argument by analyzing how Jefferson uses these tools in “The Declaration of Independence”
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI
Analyze and evaluate the effectiveness of the structure an author uses in his or her exposition or argument, including whether the structure makes points clear, convincing, and engaging.
Determine an author's point of view or purpose in a text in which the rhetoric is particularly effective, analyzing how style and content contribute to the power, persuasiveness or beauty of the text.

3. What do the ideas of ‘life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” mean to you? Write at least 7 complete thoughtful sentences.
Quickwrite

4. Celebrity reading of “The Declaration of Independence”
Celebrity reading of “The Declaration of Independence”

5. 1. Preamble: the reasons for writing down the Declaration (from “WHEN, in the course of human events” to “declare the Causes which impel them to the separation). Highlight the reason(s) the Founding Fathers give for their decision to write out a declaration. What is the tone of this opening paragraph? Make a claim – (state what the tone is), give evidence from the text (which words/phrases demonstrate this tone)? Justify your answer – discuss how/why these words/phrases create the tone in your claim.
NOTE TO TEACHERS – STUDENTS SHOULD HIGHLIGHT THE INFORMATION/QUESTION IN RED AND RESPOND IN THE COMMENT FIELD OF GOOGLE DOCS TO THE QUESTIONS IN PURPLE!

6. 2. Statement of Beliefs: specifying what the undersigned believed, the philosophy behind the document (from “We hold these truths to be self –evident” to “an absolute Tyranny over these states”). Highlight the beliefs the Founding Fathers declare they held. How does this establish ETHOS – (why might people trust/believe them here)?

7. In your own words what do YOU think Jefferson meant by “the pursuit of happiness”?

8. 3. List of Complaints: The offenses that impelled the declaration (from “To prove this, let facts be submitted to a candid world” to “unfit to be the ruler of a free people”). Why do you think the list of complaints is so long and forms the majority of the document? Make a claim. Support your claim with evidence (from the document or personal experience. Justify your answer (explain how/why your evidence proves your claim).

9. 3. List of Complaints: The offenses that impelled the declaration (from “To prove this, let facts be submitted to a candid world” to “unfit to be the ruler of a free people”). Highlight some of the parallel structure you see here. What is the effect of this parallel structure? Make a claim. Give evidence from the text. Justify (explain how/why) your evidence proves your claim.

10. 4. Statement of prior attempts to redress grievances: (From “Nor have we been wanting in attentions to our British brethren,” to “Enemies in war, in peace friends”). In what way(s) did the framers claim to have already tried addressing the complaints? Highlight the evidence from the text.

11. 5. Declaration of independence: (From “We, therefore” to “and our sacred honour.”) Highlight what will change in the colonies as a result of the Declaration. State what will change in your own words.

12. Exit ticket Copy this sentence and complete the thought
To structure an effective argument one thing you should do or include is
Exit ticket

13. Make a list of YOUR complaints
Brainstorm – you can just make a list here of complaints you have.
Perhaps you have issues about using your cell phone on campus or the tardy policy or homework. Maybe your parents make you do too many chores or watch your siblings or won’t let you stay out late.
IF your life is perfect (then I envy you!) – list complaints you know other people have – try to think local
Make a list of YOUR complaints

14. SUBMIT YOUR WORK TODAY BY TURNING IT IN ON GOOGLE CLASSROOM!
TURN IT IN