Founding Documents: Declaration of Independence Podcast

America declared independence on July 2, 1776. But two days later, it adopted this radical, revolutionary, inclusive, exclusive, secessionist, compromising, hypocritical, inspirational document. What does it say? What does it ignore? This episode features many scholars with differing opinions on the Declaration: Danielle Allen, Byron Williams, Cheryl Cook-Kallio, Woody Holton, and Emma Bray.
This short episode includes a one-page Graphic Organizer for students to take notes on while listening, as well as discussion questions on the back side.

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Grades

9, 10, 11, 12, 7, 8

Resource Types

Media, Audio

Teaching Strategies

Analysis, Individual Work

Civic Days

Fourth of July