Agenda October 18

1. Agenda October 18 • Start your Breakup Letter. Using the yellow instruction sheet start planning out what you are going to write about, specifically for parts 3 and 4. Write those ideas on the back of the paper or on your table. The actual writing with the Chromebooks can begin after you and your partner show me your progress. • Have 1 person in the group share the Doc with the partner and me so I can see the progress being made.

2. October 15 • Declaration of Independence- The Break-up Letter. Due on October 24, 2018 at 11:59 P.M. • Bold the key points as directed on the yellow sheet. (Paragraphs 2-4). • Each paragraph should be at least 5 sentences. Paragraphs 3 (8+) and 4 (6+) will be more. • Edit. Improve on the original writing. Develop vocabulary, diversify your words. • Check the yellow sheet to make sure all of the key aspects on each section are covered. • Wednesday night: submit it, and have one partner print out copies (2 if solo, 3 if with a partner).

3. October 14- Agenda • “Too Late to Apologize” • Introduce The Declaration of Independence: The Breakup Letter (PowerPoint) • Introduce the Project. We will begin working on it tomorrow, and you will have multiple in class to complete it. It is due on Wednesday, October 24 night at 11:59 P.M.

4. The Declaration of Independence: The Break-up Letter (Persuasive Writing)

5. The Declaration of Independence: A Break-up Letter

6. One of the most important documents in United States History! Statement that we are free and independent from England. It describes to the world the justification behind the decision Collaborated by a committee that included: John Adams Ben Franklin Roger Sherman Robert Livingston Thomas Jefferson*** Authored by Thomas Jefferson Adopted on July 4, 1776 Officially breaking away from England. Declaration of Independence- Pg. 182-185

7. The Parts of the Declaration of Independence • Introduction (Preamble)- What we intend to do and the general beliefs of the new government. • List of Grievances- Reasons why we will be breaking away. • Efforts of the Colonies to Avoid Separation- Attempts to fix the problem with England that were ignored. • Conclusion- The Colonies Are Declared Free and Independent- Conclusion • The Signatures- From England's view: the list of traitors.

8. Introduction- Sharing our intent of separation • “When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.”

9. Preamble- An Introduction “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed, by their Creator, with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness” What does the Preamble tell England? Explains some basic reasons why we will be separating. Natural Rights of man.

10. Rights of the People-Preamble: Borrowed Thoughts • What part of the passage is borrowed from John Locke? • Endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life and liberty. • What was changed from Locke’s original ideas of natural rights? • Pursuit of happiness

11. More Borrowed Thoughts • Common Sense by Thomas Paine. • Used the concept that a monarchy or tyranny was not acceptable. Absolute rule over the people is unacceptable.

12. List of Grievances “The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.” • He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good. • He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them. • He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only. • He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures. • He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions

13. List of Grievances: Tyrannical (Cruel) Acts- Specific Reasons for Separation • Who is Jefferson referring to as “He”? • King George III

14. Efforts to Avoid Separation- Part 4 • What did the colonists do to attempt to stop this from happening? What pamphlet came out in 1776 that created a new ideal for freedom? • Protested in many different fashions to various acts. • Tried to talk to the King and create change peacefully. (Olive Branch Petition)

15. Efforts to Avoid Separation “In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people. Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our British brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which, would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.”

16. Conclusion: Colonies are Declared Free • Concludes the document stating to England that we are officially separated. • Explains what the new states will do. • Wage war, agree to peace, make alliances, set up economic powers as a free and independent government.

17. Conclusion: Colonies are Declared Free We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States; that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.

18. The Signatures- Part 6 • All of the members who signed this document were signing their own death warrant for committing treason. • The most famous signature is that of John Hancock. He was the president of the 2nd Continental Congress. His signature is the center and the largest…. “So King George III can see it.”

19. What’s Next? Task at home: This is the link to the National Archives. http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/declaration_transcript.html • Review the Primary Sources in the link that will be on my webpage. Read through it and look for specifics that we have been covering in class. To help prepare your assignment

20. Declaration of Independence: Breaking Up! • Classwork for tomorrow: Look over the directions to the assignment and in class begin to write your rough draft with your partner of your Declaration of Independence. This will be written in today’s language while using the same concepts and 5 parts of the Declaration of Independence.