Background
The outbreak of what disease caused people during the Revolutionary Era to move toward more scientific thinking?
What is smallpox?
What holiday do we celebrate today because of the Declaration of Independence?
What is the 4th of July?
True or False Benjamin Franklin was one of the of the leading figures of early American history. He was a statesman, author, publisher, scientist, inventor and diplomat.
What was Patrick Henry's professon?
What is a lawyer?
What is an aphorism?
It is a clever, witty saying that teaches life advice.
This Puritan minister experimented with vaccines?
Who is Cotton Mather?
The part of The Declaration of Independence where the colonists list their complaints against Great Britain and the King is known as what?
What is the List of Grievances?
Benjamin Franklin was born in Boston but moved to which city?
What is Philadelphia?
What was Henry trying to tell the colonist in his speech?
What is they must be willing to form a militia and fight for their liberty.
Explain what this aphorism means.
Fish and visitors smell after three days.
Don't outstay your welcome.
This new branch of religion was formed during the Revolutionary Era, and its emphasis involved God and rational thinking?
What is Deism?
The following quote comes from which section of The Declaration of Independence?
“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.”
What is the Statement of Human Rights?
Explain a habit that Benjamin Franklin adopted in his daily life. Reflect back on the video we watched about his daily life.
Answers will vary
Early to bed, early to rise.
Planned breaks
Reset to neutral
Patrick Henry asks many questions in his speech. What type of rhetorical device does he use often?
What is a rhetorical question?
Explain the aphorism used: Three may keep a secret if two of them are dead
Once you say a secret, you can't protect it.
Name two types of popular literature during the Revolutionary Era.
What were historical documents, pamphlets, and speeches?
This person was the author of The Declaration of Independence.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
What was Franklin's most popular publication?
Poor Richard's Almanack
The excerpt below demonstrates which appeal?
“Mr. President: No man thinks more highly than I do of the patriotism, as well as abilities, of the very worthy gentlemen who have just addressed the House. But different men often see the same subject in different lights; and, therefore, I hope it will not be thought disrespectful to those gentlemen if, entertaining as I do opinions of a character very opposite to theirs, I shall speak forth my sentiments freely and without reserve.”
It is ethos.
Explain the following aphorism:
"A slip of your foot you may soon recover, but a slip of the tongue you may never get over."
Words have power. Be careful what you say because you can't take it back.
The Revolutionary Era is also know as what?
What is the Age of Reason?
What part of the Declaration of Independence is quoted below?
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
The Preamble
What virtue did Franklin place at the top of his list?
What is temperance?
The excerpt below demonstrates which appeal?
“They tell us, sir, that we are weak; unable to cope with so formidable an adversary. But when shall we be stronger? Will it be the next week, or the next year? Will it be when we are totally disarmed,and when a British guard shall be stationed in every house? Shall we gather strength by irresolution and inaction?”
What is pathos?
Explain the following aphorism:
"If your head is wax, don’t walk in the sun."
Don't make foolish choices that cause you unnecessary pain.