Essential Question: What are America's founding ideals and why are they important?
This question is the theme for our course. You will find that every unit of study ends with, "Did this unit of study move America closer or farther away from it's founding ideals? In order to answer that question, one must know and understand what America's founding ideals are. Which is why we will begin our course with a brief study of America's founding ideals.
Listed below are several websites, documents and other important information that will aid you in your pursuit of this answer. Please refer to these at the end of each unit to decide for yourself if these periods of history drew us farther or closer to our founding ideals. Homeschooler Essay
Assignment: Carefully look at the two documents below:
Declaration of Independence Rough Draft
Transcript of the Rough Draft.
Answer the following questions...
What do you see here?
What are some observations you can make about the document?
Why are some parts of the document scratched out? What do the scratches tell you about the document?
Where in the document can you find references to each of the five founding ideals: equality, rights, liberty, opportunity, and democracy?
This question is the theme for our course. You will find that every unit of study ends with, "Did this unit of study move America closer or farther away from it's founding ideals? In order to answer that question, one must know and understand what America's founding ideals are. Which is why we will begin our course with a brief study of America's founding ideals.
Listed below are several websites, documents and other important information that will aid you in your pursuit of this answer. Please refer to these at the end of each unit to decide for yourself if these periods of history drew us farther or closer to our founding ideals.
Homeschooler Essay
Assignment: Carefully look at the two documents below:
Answer the following questions...
Declaration of Independence Rough Draft
Transcript of the Rough Draft