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Classwork and Homework Due: This WEEK:

1) Complete Quiz Review (100 Points) due on Wednesday - Complete on separate piece(s) of paper and turn in.

2) Quiz on Wednesday!!!! Study!!!!

3. The Declaration of Independence LESSON 6: SECTIONS 1-4 in the Interactive Notebook (Text is online) Due Friday
3) Next Week: Prepare for Socratic Seminar: on document: The Declaration of independence
and
The Olive Branch Petition

INTERACTIVE NOTEBOOK, "Lesson 5: Toward Independence", sections 1 to 7 on pages 43 to 48.
If you don't finish in class - Please take your book home and finish at home. To be graded on Monday of next week

The essential question for this unit of study on Colonial America and the American Revolution is “How did the development of the colonies lead to rebellion?”
The focus questions is, “What sequence of events led to the colonies declaring independence from Great Britain?
If you were living in the American Colonies, would you have been a Loyalist or a Patriot. Explain yourself.
How did the Colonists feel and what were they thinking?
Pretend you are living in the Colonies in the 1770’s, why are you a Loyalist or a Patriot. What are ‘going through?
Content Vocabulary: plantation, indentured servant, triangular trade, authority, mercantilism, patriot , loyalist , factors, strategy, boycott, tyranny, propaganda , unalienable , charter, militia, tariff, tax
Why did "No Taxation Without Representation" become the battle cry of the American Colonists?