Our school year began with a need to build an academic foundation in American history.  What better way than to examine one of our founding documents: the Declaration of Independence (DoI).  Students spent the last few days looking at what made the Declaration what it was; from the Preamble to Statement of Beliefs to the list of Grievances.

Today, we focused on the list of Grievances.  Students translated the grievances (into modern English) with their partner.  After much discussion, they organized each of the Grievances into a list of Bad to Worst (and selected their top 3 to argue about thereafter).  It was awesome listening to the kids talk passionately about one of our founding documents.