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The Declaration of Independence
______ Step 1: Brainstorm ideas about how to bring the excerpt to life. As you review the excerpt from the Declaration of Independence, make note of how you can accurately bring the excerpt to life in a one-minute skit
______ Step 2: Agree on what each actor will say. Decide what each person will say, and write a brief script on a sheet of paper.
______ Step 3: Rehearse your skit. You must be able to perform your skit in one minute or less. As you rehearse, make sure
• the skit flows smoothly.
• group members are positioned properly and know what movements they will make during the skit.
• lines are read clearly and dramatically.
• the skit accurately captures the meaning of the excerpt.
• the skit flows smoothly.
• group members are positioned properly and know what movements they will make during the skit.
• lines are read clearly and dramatically.
• the skit accurately captures the meaning of the excerpt.
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, ...a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to separation.
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We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
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That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or abolish it, and to institute new Government.
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The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpation, all having, in direct object, the establishment of an absolute Tyranny of these States. To prove this, let facts be submitted to a candid world.
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(We) solemnly publish and declare, That these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be Free and Independent States; that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and that State of Great Britain, is and out to be totally dissolved.
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The 13 Original Colonies
New England1. New Hampshire
2. Massachusetts 3. Rhode Island 4. Connecticut |
Middle5. Pennsylvania
6. New York 7. New Jersey 8. Deleware |
Southern9. Georgia
10. South Caroline 11. North Caroline 12. Virginia 13. Maryland |
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