How have founding documents shaped the American identity?
Objective: Students will analyze how structural sections organize ideas in the Declaration of Independence.
1. In our Writer's Notebook page 82, we wrote a status report, individually reflecting on how we each did as students during Term 1 of this school year and making goals and plans for next term.
2. On our reading challenge log, we reported how we did on our term 1 reading goal and set a new goal for 2nd term.
3. Writer's Notebok #13
4. We discussed why people and societies make transitions and how they use rites of passage and formal documents to formalize transitions.
5. In small groups, we analyzed ideas in sections of the Declaration of Independence by comparing it to a fictional break-up letter.
6. We individually annotated copies of the Declaration of Independence as each group shared the content and purpose of a section.
7. We discussed how the ideas in the Declaration of Independence paved the way for many American ideals and for other documents such as the Constitution. We traced the influence of these ideas in the Preamble to the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.
For next time: Create your own "founding document," imitated on the style of the Declaration of Independence or the Constitution. (Here is an example.)
Objective: Students will analyze how structural sections organize ideas in the Declaration of Independence.
1. In our Writer's Notebook page 82, we wrote a status report, individually reflecting on how we each did as students during Term 1 of this school year and making goals and plans for next term.
2. On our reading challenge log, we reported how we did on our term 1 reading goal and set a new goal for 2nd term.
3. Writer's Notebok #13
4. We discussed why people and societies make transitions and how they use rites of passage and formal documents to formalize transitions.
5. In small groups, we analyzed ideas in sections of the Declaration of Independence by comparing it to a fictional break-up letter.
6. We individually annotated copies of the Declaration of Independence as each group shared the content and purpose of a section.
7. We discussed how the ideas in the Declaration of Independence paved the way for many American ideals and for other documents such as the Constitution. We traced the influence of these ideas in the Preamble to the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.
For next time: Create your own "founding document," imitated on the style of the Declaration of Independence or the Constitution. (Here is an example.)