Category: declaration of independence
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History in the Kitchen: The Declaration, Equality, & Mac and Cheese
Today’s at History in the Kitchen we took a look at three documents, the Declaration of Independence, the Declaration of Sentiments, and Frederick Douglass’s speech, “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” Similar to a lesson I teach in the classroom, I think it is vitally important to reiterate the ideals of the…
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Whose Independence?
I spent quite a lot of time thinking about independence this year. It isn’t that I hadn’t considered the Declaration of Independence through the lens of equality and inequality before, but a recent PD session at Academy for Teachers helped me think about independence in a historical way that I’d not really considered. The idea…
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Political Philosophy BEFORE the Revolution
In reading text books over the years, I’ve noticed that many mention that the colonists sought the “British rights” to which they were entitled as a cause of the American Revolution. Among other things, taxation without representation angered them and they were incensed by the Crown denying them trial by jury. However, in these same…
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The Declaration of Independence Creatively Translated
Click here to view to the lesson! Creativity holds an important place in the history classroom. Children in an early childhood education setting are encouraged to paint, collage, and use their imaginations to learn about the world around them. At what point during a student’s education does that change? I argue that it doesn’t have…