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Congress appoints Committee of Five to draft Declaration of Independence
June 11, 1776
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Lesson Plan / History & Social StudiesThe Declaration of Independence: "An Expression of the American Mind"
This lesson plan looks at the major ideas in the Declaration of Independence, their origins, the Americans’ key grievances against the King and Parliament, their assertion of sovereignty, and the Declaration’s process of revision. Upon completion of the lesson, students will be familiar with the document’s origins, and the influences that produced Jefferson’s “expression of the American mind.”
Ben Jonson, English poet and dramatist, is born 1572
June 11, 1572
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Lesson Plan / Literature & Language ArtsListening to Poetry: Sounds of the Sonnet
While teaching some of the formal terms used to describe sonnets will be one of the aims of this lesson, our starting point and central focus throughout will be learning to appreciate the sounds of poetry.
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