Declaration Group Work
1. Clarifying questions? Help each other make sense of any confusion.
2. Probing questions? Pose and answer questions on your list that are designed to provoke thought.
3. Did you see any changes having been made for political reasons? Discuss with your group why you think such changes were made.
4. Discuss Jefferson's rhetoric. What is his purpose? His audience? Is his argument effective? What is effective about it? Why does it persuade?
5. Do you see any connections to the present? What American principles are laid out in this document? Does anything in this declaration remind you of anything that you hear politicians speak of nowadays?