Daily Lesson Plan Format

Name: Brianna Johnson Date(s) of Lesson: 9/6/2018

Student Learning Objective(s) and Related Assessment(s):

Students will read and analyze the Declaration of Independence in small groups. This
means they can create a compare/contrast chart using the information they’ve learned.
Students will also understand how the ideas expressed in the Declaration express some of
the first purely American sentiments and identities.

Language Objective: I can use contextual clues and resources to understand the
complicated language in the Declaration and define these words in the margins.

Standard(s):
2.1.c.ii. Demonstrate knowledge of eighteenth-, nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century
foundational works of American literature, including how two or more texts from the
same period treat similar themes or topics. (CCSS: RL.11-12.9)

Materials/Resources:
Compare/Contrast Website access
Compare/Contrast Worksheets
Notes and Transcript from the podcast

Learning Activities:

Initiation:
(5 min)
Students will share a happy occurrence from their day so far. (If students ever find
something happy in the news or life in general they are welcome to bring it in for
these first five minutes.)
Students will turn in their Letters to the Teacher.

(5 min)
I will ask students to take out the transcript of the podcast from yesterday and
quickly review what we listened to. I will then ask for a quick shout out of what
they remember and found interesting in order to re-engage them in the topic.

Lesson Development:
(75 min)
I will reintroduce the fact that the Declaration we know today is not the one
written by Jefferson, and that the podcast we listened to yesterday will come in
very handy for this activity.
I will explain that every station around the room has a section of the Declaration
(from the compare/contrast website) and students will be asked to, in pairs, go
around the room and fill out their compare/contrast worksheets. They do not have
to go in a specific order.
 I will begin the activity by providing an example for them, students will have the
rest of the period to complete the assignment.

Closure:
(5 min)
Students will complete an exit ticket on a scrap piece of paper telling me
something they learned today regarding the Declaration and American Identity.

Individuals Needing Differentiated Instruction:

For an English Learner, they may take as long as needed on the sections. I can pick a
partner for them that I feel will best benefit the both of them academically. They also do
not need to finish all sections, so long as I can see evidence of learning and understanding
in what they have finished, I will know they have understood the concepts.

For a student with Special Needs, I can compile all of the papers they will need in case
their specific needs complicate movement around the room. Fonts and format can be
altered, and number of sections can be decreased as necessary in order to create an
assignment that flows better for their needs.
Name: ___________________ Date: _________

Declaration of Independence
Compare/Contrast Activity

Original: Final: Importance:

He has refused his He has refused his

Assent to Laws, the Assent to Laws, the
most wholesome and most wholesome and
necessary for the public necessary for the public
good. good.

He has forbidden his He has forbidden his

Governors to pass Laws Governors to pass Laws
of immediate and of immediate and
pressing Importance, pressing importance,
unless suspended in unless suspended in
their operation, till his their operation till his
Assent should be Assent should be
obtained; and when so obtained; and, when so
suspended he has suspended, he has
neglected utterly to utterly neglected to
attend to them. attend to them.
He has refused to pass He has refused to pass
other Laws for the other Laws for the
accommodation of large accommodation of large
Districts of People, districts of people,
unless those People unless those people
would relinquish the would relinquish the
Right of Representation right of Representation
in the Legislature, a in the Legislature, a right
Right inestimable to inestimable to them, and
them, and formidable to formidable to tyrants
Tyrants only. only.

He has called together

legislative bodies at
places unusual,
uncomfortable, and
distant from the
depository of their public
Records, for the sole
purpose of fatiguing
them into compliance
with his measures.

He has dissolved He has dissolved

Representative Houses, Representative Houses
repeatedly, and repeatedly for opposing
continually, for opposing with manly firmness his
with manly Firmness his invasions on the rights
Invasions on the Rights of the people.
of the People.
He has refused, for a He has refused for a
long Space of Time after long time after such
such Dissolutions, to dissolutions to cause
cause others to be others to be elected,
elected, whereby the whereby the Legislative
legislative Powers, powers, incapable of
incapable of Annihilation have
annihilation, have returned to the People
returned to the People at large for their
at large for their exercise, the State
Exercise, the state remaining, in the
remaining in the mean meantime, exposed to
Time, exposed to all the all the dangers of
Dangers of Invasion, invasion from without,
from without, and and convulsions within.
Convulsions within—

He has endeavoured to He has endeavoured to

prevent the Population prevent the population
of these States; for that of these States; for that
purpose obstructing the purpose obstructing the
Laws for naturalization Laws for Naturalization
of foreigners; refusing to of Foreigners; refusing
pass others to to pass others to
encourage their encourage their
Migrations hither; and migrations hither, and
raising the Conditions of raising the conditions of
new Appropriations of new Appropriations of
Lands. Lands.

He has suffered the He has obstructed the

Administration of Justice Administration of Justice
totally to cease in some by refusing his Assent to
of these Colonies, Laws for establishing
refusing his Assent to Judiciary powers.
Laws for establishing
Judiciary Powers.
He has made our He has made Judges
Judges dependent on dependent on his Will
his Will alone, for the alone, for the tenure of
Tenure of their offices, their offices, and the
and amount of their amount and payment of
Salaries: their salaries.

He has created a He has erected a

Multitude of new offices multitude of New
by a Self-assumed Offices, and sent hither
Power, and sent hither swarms of Officers to
swarms of officers to harass our people, and
harass our People and eat out their substance.
eat out their Substance.

He has kept among us, He has kept among us,

in Times of Peace, in times of peace,
Standing Armies and Standing Armies without
Ships of War. the Consent of our
legislatures.

He has affected to He has affected to

render the military, render the Military
independent of, and independent of and
Superiour to, the civil superior to the Civil
Power. power.
He has combined with
others to subject us to a
Jurisdiction foreign to
our Constitution and
unacknowledged by our
Laws; giving his Assent
to their pretended Acts
of Legislation; for
quartering large Bodies
of armed Troops among
us; for protecting them
by a Mock Tryal from
Punishment for any
Murders they should
commit on the
Inhabitants of these
States; for cutting off our
Trade with all Parts of
the World; for imposing
Taxes on as without our
Consent; for depriving
Us of the Benefits of
Trial by Jury; for
transporting us beyond
Seas to be tried for
pretended offenses; for
taking away our
Charters, and altering
fundamentally the
Forms of our
Government; for
suspending our own
Legislatures and
declaring themselves
invested with Power to
legislate for us in all
Cases whatsoever.
He has combined with
others to subject us to a
jurisdiction foreign to our
constitution, and
unacknowledged by our
laws; giving his Assent
to their Acts of
pretended Legislation:
For quartering large
bodies of armed troops
among us:
For protecting them, by
a mock Trial from
punishment for any
Murders which they
should commit on the
Inhabitants of these
States:
For cutting off our trade
with all parts of the
world:
For imposing Taxes on
us without our Consent
—For depriving us in
many cases of the
benefits of Trial by jury:
For transporting us
beyond Seas to be tried
for pretended offences:
For abolishing the free
System of English Laws
in a neighbouring
Province, establishing
therein an Arbitrary
government, and
enlarging its Boundaries
so as to render it at
once an example and fit
instrument for
introducing the same
absolute rule into these
Colonies:
For taking away our
Charters, abolishing our
most valuable Laws,
and altering
fundamentally the
Forms of our
Governments:
For suspending our own
Legislatures, and
declaring themselves
invested with power to
legislate for us in all
cases whatsoever.
He has abdicated He has abdicated
Government here, Government here by
withdrawing his declaring us out of his
Governors, and Protection, and waging
declaring us, out of his war against us.
Allegiance and
Protection.

He has plundered our He has plundered our

Seas, ravaged our seas, ravaged our
Coasts, burnt our towns, Coasts, burnt our towns,
and destroyed the Lives and destroyed the Lives
of our People. of our people.

He is at this Time He is at this time

transporting large transporting large
Armies of foreign Armies of foreign
Mercenaries to complete Mercenaries to compleat
the Works of death, the works of death,
Desolation, and desolation, and tyranny,
Tyranny, already begun already begun with
with Circumstances of circumstances of cruelty
Cruelty and Perfidy and perfidy scarcely
unworthy the Head of a paralleled in the most
civilized Nation. barbarous ages, and
totally unworthy the
Head of a civilized
nation.
He has endeavoured to He has excited domestic
bring on the Inhabitants insurrection among us,
of our Frontiers, the and has endeavoured to
merciless Indian bring on the inhabitants
Savages, whose known of our frontiers, the
Rule of Warfare is an merciless Indian
undistinguished Savages, whose known
Destruction of all Ages, rule of warfare, is an
Sexes, and Conditions undistinguished
of existence. destruction of all ages,
He has incited sexes and conditions.
treasonable
Insurrections of our
Fellow Citizens, with the
allurement of Forfeiture
and Confiscation of our
Property.

He has constrained our

fellow citizens taken
Captive on the high
Seas, to bear arms
against their Country, to
become the
executioners of their
friends and Brethren, or
to fall themselves by
their Hands.
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 and carrying
them into Slavery in
another Hemisphere, or
to incur miserable
Death, in their
Transportation thither.
This piratical Warfare,
the opprobrium of infidel
Powers, is the Warfare
of the Christian King of
Great Britain.
He has prostituted his
Negative for
Suppressing every
legislative Attempt to
prohibit or to restrain an
execrable Commerce,
determined to keep
open a Market where
Men should be bought
and sold, and that this
assemblage of Horrors
might want no Fact of
distinguished Die.
He is now exciting those
very People to rise in
Arms among us, and to
purchase their Liberty of
which he has deprived
them, by murdering the
People upon whom he
also obtruded them:
thus paying off, former
Crimes committed
against the Liberties of
one People, with Crimes
which he urges them to
commit against the
Lives of another.