Declaration of Independence

Please read the Declaration of Independence, our nation's birth certificate, and respond to the following for Thursday of this week. You can find a copy in your text starting on page 770.

The Declaration of Independence

A. speaker
B. subject
c. Context
d. Date signed (month, day and year)
e. Identify 3 audiences (The author is addressing whom?)
f. What’s the author’s purpose? (Why put this in  
      writing)
G. Structure: Identify the 3 parts of the
    Declaration.

Bonus: Xtra Credit for Thursday…
  Identify “Dunlap Broadsides”

Mr. Thompson