Learning Objective:
Understand the process of how the United States became independent


Turn in: Quick Write colonists should/ shouldn't be independent


National Poetry Month, Do now Answers in Haiku 5,7,5 Format
Do Now #33 What are natural rights? (Rights that all humans should have)

Venne Diagram

• In partners
• Read the excerpts and fill out the diagram in the proper areas
• Discuss the text

What freedom feels like

June 7 - Richard Henry Lee introduced a resolution urging Congress to declare independence from Great Britain.
June 11 - Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman, and Robert R. Livingston were appointed to a committee to draft a declaration of independence.
June 28 - A fair copy of the committee draft of the Declaration of Independence was read in Congress.
July 1-4 - Congress debated and revised the Declaration of Independence.
July 4 - Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence.

July 4 - Congress ordered that the Declaration of Independence be printed (Dunlap Broadsides).

The Declaration of Independence slides

Signing The Declaration

It's too late