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Thomas Paine is born
January 29, 1737
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Understanding the Patriot attitude toward the British monarchy is helpful in understanding the Founders’ reluctance to have a strong executive under the Articles of Confederation as well as their desire to build in checks of executive power under the Constitution.
Lesson Plan / History & Social StudiesCommon Sense: The Rhetoric of Popular Democracy
This lesson looks at Thomas Paine and at some of the ideas presented in his pamphlet Common Sense, such as national unity, natural rights, the illegitimacy of the monarchy and of hereditary aristocracy, and the necessity for independence and the revolutionary struggle.
Robert Frost, American poet, dies; epitaph reads: “I had a lover's quarrel with the world”
January 29, 1963
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Lesson Plan / Literature & Language ArtsPoems that Tell a Story: Narrative and Persona in the Poetry of Robert Frost
Behind many of the apparently simple stories of Robert Frost's poems are unexpected questions and mysteries. In this lesson, students analyze what speakers include or omit from their narrative accounts, make inferences about speakers' motivations, and find evidence for their inferences in the words of the poem.
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