1. What are the steps to a rebellion?
Focus Question:
What are the steps to a rebellion?
Quiz Next Week!

2. Olive Branch Petition

3. Thomas Paine wrote Common Sense in 1776
Urged Colonists to seek a complete break from England
Common Sense sold half million copies in six months
The Pamphlet was a very important piece of Propaganda: Ideas or information spread to influence opinions.

6. Key Words
Select ten words from the text that you believe are Key Words and write them in the box to the right of the text on your organizers.

7. Propaganda Ideas or information spread to influence opinions
Add to the back of your
Frayer Model!
Propaganda
Ideas or information spread to influence opinions
Ways to persuade the opinions of a group of people

8. Examples of Propaganda

9. Reflection: answer on the back of your common sense worksheet
In general, why was common sense written?
Why does Thomas Paine think that the colonists should declare independence?
How do you think the colonists felt when they read the pamphlet? Why?
How do you think King George and the Loyalists reacted to the Pamphlet? Why?
Why do you think Paine gave the pamphlet the name “Common Sense”?