Grade+10,+Unit+2

== = = =UNIT 2: A NEW NATION: ENLIGHTENMENT CONTINUED, AGE OF REASON 1750-1800= = = =ESSENTIAL QUESTION: Why was the founding of America unique?= = = =LITERARY TEXTS--= =ANTHOLOGIES:= = = =POETRY:= = = =INFORMATIONAL TEXTS--= =AUTOBIOGRAPHIES:= = = =NONFICTION:= = = =SPEECHES:= = = =ART, MUSIC AND MEDIA--= =ART:= = = =MEDIA:= = = =ADDITIONAL RESOURCES--= = = =FUNDAMENTALS--= =WRITING:= = = =GRAMMAR AND USAGE:= = = =MECHANICS:= = = =TERMINOLOGY:=
 * =//United States in Literature//=
 * = "The Indian Burial Ground" (Philip Freneau) =
 * = "The Star-Spangled Banner" (Francis Scott Key) =
 * = "The Wild Honeysuckle" (Philip Freneau) =
 * = //The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African// (Olaudah Equiano) =
 * = //The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin// (Benjamin Franklin) =
 * =//1776// (David McCullough) (E)=
 * ="Benjamin Banneker's Letter to Thomas Jefferson" (August 19, 1791)=
 * ="Common Sense" or "The Crisis" (Thomas Paine) (E)=
 * =//Declaration of Independence// (Thomas Jefferson) (E)=
 * = //Democracy in America// (excerpts) (Alexis de Tocqueville) (E) =
 * ="Federalist No. 1" (Alexander Hamilton) (E)=
 * ="Federalist No. 10" (James Madison)=
 * =Letter to John Adams (August 1, 1816) (Thomas Jefferson) (EA)=
 * =//Letters from an American Farmer// (J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur) (selections)=
 * =//Preamble to the Constitution and the Bill of Rights// (E)=
 * =//The Complete Anti-Federalist// (Herbert J. Storing) (selections)=
 * =“The Way to Wealth,” //Poor Richard's Almanack// (Benjamin Franklin) (selections)=
 * ="Thomas Jefferson's Letter to Benjamin Banneker, August 30, 1791"=
 * ="Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom" (Thomas Jefferson) (EA)=
 * = //Poor Richard's Almanack// (George Washington) (E) =
 * = "What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?" (delivered 5 July, 1852, Rochester, New York) (Frederick Douglass) (E) =
 * =Speech to the Virginia Convention: "Give Me Liberty of Give Me Death" (March 20, 1775) (Patrick Henry) (E)=
 * =Auguste Couder, //Siège de Yorktown// (ca. 1836)=
 * =Emanuel Leutze, //Washington Crossing The Delaware// (1851)=
 * =Gilbert Stuart, //James Monroe// (ca. 1820- 1822)=
 * =Gustavus Hesselius, //Lapowinsa// (1735)=
 * =John Copley, //Paul Revere// (ca. 1768)=
 * =John Trumbull, //Declaration of Independence// (1819)=
 * =Thomas Pritchard Rossiter, //Washington and Lafayette at Mount Vernon// (1859)=
 * =//Africans in America: Revolution// (Part 2, PBS)=
 * =Documentaries as found on //DiscoveryEducation//.com, //A&E//, and //History Channel//=
 * =The Declaration of Independence: "An Expression of the American Mind" (National Endowment for the Humanities)=
 * ="Jefferson vs. Franklin: Revolutionary Philosophers" (National Endowment for the Humanities)=
 * =Jefferson vs. Franklin: Renaissance Men (National Endowment for the Humanities)=
 * =Founding Father informational essay worksheet=
 * =Nothing new this unit.=
 * =Nothing new this unit.=
 * =Anti-federalism=
 * =Aphorism=
 * =Deism=
 * =Federalism=
 * =Heroic couplet=
 * =Maxim=
 * =Natural law=
 * =Salvation=
 * =Separation of church and state=

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