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Challenge your students to analyze the ideas in Thomas Paine's Common Sense that shaped the drive for American independence in the wake of increased taxation.
In this Inquiry-Based Lesson, students explore this question by analyzing secondary historian sources AND primary source documents. These sources can easily be modified for your class!
- STANDARDS: This lesson aligns with AP Learning Objective 3D (Philosophical Foundations of the American Revolution).
- RIGOR: While I use this with my APUSH class, I also use it with my standard 11th grade U.S. History Class by modifying and shortening sources.
Included in this Lesson's Zip File:
- 2-Page Scripted Lesson Plan (easy-to-follow, with clear scripting, pacing, lecture notes aligned to PowerPoint, standards, and objectives)
- Answer Key & Grading Key
- PowerPoint Presentation (36 slides with bulleted lecture slides)
- Class Handout (2 pages with Source Analysis Analysis Warm-Up, essential questions, and Exit Ticket)
- Primary Source Texts (10 carefully selected excerpts from "Common Sense")
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Unit 03: Lesson 3 - Paine's "Common Sense" Lesson, PowerPoint, & Answer Key
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Challenge your students to analyze the ideas in Thomas Paine's Common Sense that shaped the drive for American independence in the wake of increased taxation.
In this Inquiry-Based Lesson, students explore this question by analyzing secondary historian sources AND primary source documents. These sources can easily be modified for your class!
- STANDARDS: This lesson aligns with AP Learning Objective 3D (Philosophical Foundations of the American Revolution).
- RIGOR: While I use this with my APUSH class, I also use it with my standard 11th grade U.S. History Class by modifying and shortening sources.
Included in this Lesson's Zip File:
- 2-Page Scripted Lesson Plan (easy-to-follow, with clear scripting, pacing, lecture notes aligned to PowerPoint, standards, and objectives)
- Answer Key & Grading Key
- PowerPoint Presentation (36 slides with bulleted lecture slides)
- Class Handout (2 pages with Source Analysis Analysis Warm-Up, essential questions, and Exit Ticket)
- Primary Source Texts (10 carefully selected excerpts from "Common Sense")
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My learners enjoy this assignment because it is non-APUSH which gives them a break from the rigor of APUSH and college assignments.
Helpful for Explaining Paine
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This worked well at helping my students to understand what was going on in Common Sense. I appreciate it!
Excellent and easy to modify to fit needs
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This is a great resource. It is beautifully done, quite artistic. The excerpts were well chosen and represented a good variety of Paine's arguments. I didn't use the entire resource but tweaked the student activity to meet my class's needs and it really worked great. My students got a lot out of it, I think. Thank you!
This is a great resource to have in class to support my lesson. Thank you!
This was a really good activity. I printed the slides out and turned it into a classroom walkabout. I did have to alter some of the language (for maturity) and layout in a few slides to ensure they worked well in the formats I needed, but this was great and my students are now using this information for Road to Revolution DBQ.
This TpT PowerPoint exceeded my expectations. The slides are well-designed, and the information is presented in a way that's easy for students to grasp. Highly recommend!
This was a wonderful resource to stress the importance of Common Sense. My students were engaged, and enjoyed the lesson. We just had our unit assessment, and almost every single student nailed it when it came to Thomas Paine and his ideas--I credit this resource for their success.
My students love having a visual, which helps them better understand the content.
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