Month: October 2021

Assignment:

1. Choose one idea from the Declaration of Independence. Describe how you have seen this idea demonstrated in American culture (about 50 words).

https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript Paragraphs 1, 2, and the final paragraph of the Declaration of Independence (July 4, 1776)

2. Choose one idea from the Preamble to the U.S. Constitution. Describe how you have seen this idea demonstrated in American culture. (about 50 words each)

https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/constitution-transcript (September 17, 1787)

3. Respond to another person’s entry for each document. (about 25 words)

4. Just for fun: Here’s a song from the Broadway show “Hamilton,” titled “I am not giving away my shot.” Alexander Hamilton and friends sing about the coming revolution and joining George Washington’s army.

– The setting is in a tavern just as the Revolutionary War is getting started. Four young men are going to join George Washington’s army. The characters are Alexander Hamilton, a 19-year-old who would go on to set up the U.S. Treasury Department, the Marquis de Lafayette, a 19-year-old French aristocrat who fought with the colonists, John Laurens, who fought with the colonists, especially to free the black slaves, and Hercules Mulligan, who became a spy for George Washington.