American Revolution Primary Source Analysis: Excerpts of Common Sense

In this activity, students will close read and analyze excerpts of the Thomas Paine’s Common Sense to create or fill in a mind map and answer text-dependent question in order to determine: What is common sense? Is independence common sense?

This activity includes:

1. Primary source excerpts – 5 pages or 4 sets of Base/Expert Groups
2. Ten Text-Dependent
3. Mind Map Template – a great differentiation tool!
4. Answer Keys – TDQs and Mind Map!

This activity can be completed in four ways:

1. Individual Document Analysis – Assign the document in class, or as a homework (for a flipped classroom) and then host a Socratic seminar on the Seminar question the following day.
2. Base/Expert Groups – Divide students into four teams and distribute a section of Common Sense to each. Invite groups to read and analyze their section, then move to their base groups and share the knowledge they’ve gained.
3. Pair or Small Group Document Analysis

FORMATS INCLUDE: PDF, WORD-editable

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