More motions of Liberty; the Declaration of Independence

We'll work in our groups today.
Start by sharing your responses to the "current connections" you read last night.
Then, we'll hear three more voices expressing thoughts about liberty:

• Phillis Wheatley
• Chief Logan
• Abigail and John Adams

You'll fill in section 4 of your chart and then write a final personal response in your journal.

For the second half of class, we'll start with two videos. They are excerpts from the television series about John Adams and they show opposing voices to the question of declaring independence: John Dickinson opposed to it and John Adams in favor of it.

We'll then turn our attention to the Declaration of Independence itself. We'll hear it out loud and then take a short quiz about the details of the document.

Reminder about homework for tonight - you are finishing the Zinn article and reading a short new article by David McCullough. Both are linked in the assignment sheet.