1. Focus 10/9
What is this political cartoon saying? How do you know? Use the following evidence to support your answer.
Exaggeration:
Symbols:
Captions:
People:
Current Events:

2. Focus 10/10
You have 5 mins to review your notes for the quiz. Study pages 24, 26, and 30 in your ISNs

3. ID 10/9/2012 Thomas Paine titled his work Common Sense because
Additionally, the purpose of the writing The Crisis was to

4. Left side activity page 31
Write a about a break up you heard about, witnessed, or experienced in your life. Why did the break up occur? Who was the one to break up with that person? What caused the break up? (complaints) How did this effect the people involved? What happened afterwards?

5. Declaration of Independence
July 4, 1776
2nd Continental Congress
Author- Thomas Jefferson
John Adams, Ben Franklin, John Hancock among the many who signed

6. Preamble- introduction
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.

7. Natural Rights- rights belonging to people from birth
Part 1:
Natural Rights- rights belonging to people from birth
Unalienable rights- rights that cannot be taken away. “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.” People form a government in order to protect these natural rights

8. Part 2: Grievances (complaints)
List of wrongs that led Americans to break away.
Petitions fall on deaf ears
“In every state of these oppressions, we have petitioned for redress in the most humble terms; our repeated petitions have been answered only by repeated injury.”

9. Part 3: Independence Political ties cut with England
United States had the full power to:
Make war, peace, alliance, commerce