STARTER 8.29: Watch part of the VICE News coverage of Charlottesville. (WARNING: Be willing to be disturbed!)
React. AND Explain how the conflict portrayed in the video is ideological in nature.
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The Big Question:
To what degree is the United States living up to the ideals set forth in the Declaration?
DISCUSS:
1. What do you remember about the American Revolution? What have you learned about it in your education?
2. What are some of the ideals upon which the Revolution was based?
2. Why was the Declaration of Independence written?
Declaration of Independence video (watch preamble)
How does the rhetoric of the Declaration impact you as an American?
- Declaration Preamble
- Why did the Founding Fathers write the Declaration?
A Significant Omission…..
Read the omitted passage from the Declaration of Independence and answer the following questions:
- To what is Jefferson referring?
- Why do you think Congress removed this from the adopted draft?
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 hither … And he is now exciting those very people to rise in arms among us, and to purchase that liberty of which he had 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.
Discuss Declaration Packet. (TURN IT IN!)
What are the ideologies upon which our country is founded?
What bias did you see in each of the historian excerpts?
Four corners: America is living up to the ideals set forth is the preamble of the Declaration of Independence.