Finish the following sentence (and then explain): “We hold these truths to be self-evident…”
What did people come looking for when they came to America?
What is the American Dream?
Does the American Dream still exist?
Important terms and/or relevant vocabulary words (define them IF you don’t know what they mean): independence, immigrant/immigration, equal rights, … [feel free to add more]
Academic English terms (learned during this unit): rhyme scheme, stanza, verse, imagery, metaphor, symbolize, unite, discrimination, rhetorical pentagon (topic, sender, receiver, circumstances, language, intention), structure, … [feel free to add more]
Texts: The Declaration of Independence, The New Colossus, US Immigration before 1965, I Have a Dream, Where My Country Gone, American Dream Speech
Text name, author, and text type
Summary points (highlights of text)
Most Memorable Line(s) + Why
Theme, Message, and/or Intention
Your additional notes/comments on the text
The Declaration of Independence (2319)
Author : John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Roger Sherman, and Robert Livingston.
Text type : transcription of the Stone Engraving
to explain the colonists' right to revolution.
All Men are created equal.
People have certain Inalienable Rights including Life, Liberty and Pursuit of Happiness
Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness
three major ideas: People have certain Inalienable Rights including Life, Liberty and Pursuit of Happiness.
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