1) In your group read the Declaration of Independence. If you would like to listen to it being read for you by a hodge podge of celebrities feel free https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETroXvRFoKY
If you need help understanding what the list of grievances means: http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/database/article_display.cfm?HHID=270
2) Now that you've read the Declaration, it's important to understand how it got started. Your group needs to read two of the following documents.
John Locke's Second Treatise on Government http://edsitement.neh.gov/sites/edsitement.neh.gov/files/worksheets/Locke.pdf
Massachusetts Slave Petition http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/documents/v1ch14s9.html
Maiden MA Statement of Independence http://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/document/instructions-from-the-town-of-malden-massachusetts-for-a-declaration-of-independence/
George Mason and the Virginia Declaration http://edsitement.neh.gov/sites/edsitement.neh.gov/files/worksheets/Mason.pdf
3) Fill in the chart
If you need help understanding what the list of grievances means: http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/database/article_display.cfm?HHID=270
2) Now that you've read the Declaration, it's important to understand how it got started. Your group needs to read two of the following documents.
John Locke's Second Treatise on Government http://edsitement.neh.gov/sites/edsitement.neh.gov/files/worksheets/Locke.pdf
Massachusetts Slave Petition http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/documents/v1ch14s9.html
Maiden MA Statement of Independence http://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/document/instructions-from-the-town-of-malden-massachusetts-for-a-declaration-of-independence/
George Mason and the Virginia Declaration http://edsitement.neh.gov/sites/edsitement.neh.gov/files/worksheets/Mason.pdf
3) Fill in the chart