AIM: How did Loyalists and Patriots differ
in their views of the “rights of Englishmen”?
DO NOW
Write a sentence using the word
• Watch film 1776,
answering the
Aim
•
23 September 2014 Tuesday
Homework
Due Monday 29
Lesson 8 Q 1-4 page 46
Look at Declaration of
Independence on pages 223-224.
Tomorrow, 24 Sept.:
HIV Assembly—meet here first
for attendance.
AIM: What Basic Ideas of Government did the
Founders put into the Declaration of
Independence?
DO NOW
Write a sentence using the word
sovereignty: pure,
superior –a government
has authority over a
particular area
Latin super over
Critical Thinking Exercise
p. 43. What rights were violated
by the British?
29 September 2014 Monday
Homework
Due Thursday: Lesson 9 p.52
Q 1-4
Due Friday: Current Events
Journal 3
Words of the Day
Quiz Friday Declaration of
Independence
AIM: What was the purpose of the
Declaration of Independence?
DO NOW
Write a sentence using the word
Legitimacy: the right of
a government to rule,
especially as recognized
by other governments.
Latin lex law
30 September 2014 Tuesday
Homework
Due Thursday: Lesson 9 p.52
Q 1-4
Due Friday: Current Events
Journal 3
Words of the Day
Quiz Friday Declaration of
Independence
KEY IDEAS
Natural Rights (John Locke)
Life, liberty, property
Social Contract (John Locke & feudal
contract)
Government is created by people.
Therefore, people have the right to overthrow
an unjust government.
Rule of Law (Magna Carta)
All in a society must obey the law, including the
king.
Critical Thinking Exercise--counts as
homework--hand in individually
• pages 223-224
• Outline the Declaration of Independence,
paragraph by paragraph.
•
Who is to blame for all the problems-- king or
parliament?
•
Identify the complaints the Americans had against
the British government.
AIM: How did the Founders avoid
the issue of slavery?
DO NOW
Write a sentence using the word
Violate
To take away someone’s
rights in a disrespectful
manner.
Latin: viol violent
1 October 2014 Wednesday
Homework
Due Thursday: Lesson 9 p.52
Q 1-4
Due Friday: Current Events
Journal 3
Words of the Day
Quiz Friday Declaration of
Independence
Video 1776 (musical)
1. Read the paragraph and determine what Jefferson
accuses King George of having done?
He has waged cruel war against human nature
itself, violating its most sacred rights of life and
liberty in the persons of a distant people who never
offended him, captivating & carrying them into
slavery in another hemisphere or to incur miserable
death in their transportation thither.
Video 1776 (musical)
Give two objections made by the Constitutional
Congress to the Declaration of Independence.
3. Why is it Edward Rutledge of South Carolina who wants the
anti-slave trade paragraph removed?
4. What does Thomas Jefferson plan to do?
5. Look at the map of trade routes; listen to “Molasses to Rum
to Slaves” and find the three points of the triangular trade.
2.
AIM: What danger were the Founding Fathers
facing as they debated the Declaration?
DO NOW
Write a sentence using the word
Welfare the common
good
(The government
programs we call
“welfare” today used to
be called “relief”.)
2 October 2014 Thursday
Homework
Due Friday: Lesson 11 p. 64
Q. 1-3
Due Friday:
Current Events Journal 3
Words of the Day
Quiz Friday Declaration of
Independence