The Declaration of Independence lesson

This lesson explores the Declaration of Independence and addresses the following focus questions:

• Why did Congress not declare Independence until 1776?
• To what extent did economic factors or ideology inspire the American colonies to declare independence?

The lesson includes the following activities: pair discussion starter, advertisement, reading comprehension tasks & note-taking, moving pair debate activity (where one student stays and the other rotates around the room), my classmate is an alien plenary. This lesson lasts approximately 1hr 30mins and contains differentiation in the form of an extension activity.

NOTE This lesson requires access to the Access to History - The American Revolution and the Birth of a Nation 1740-1801 textbook.