5 x 5 for 5th Grade
Declaration of Independence
5 Vocabulary
1. Declaration of Independence: the public act by which the Second Continental Congress, on July 4, 1776, declared the Colonies to be free and independent of England
2. Democracy: Government by the people or their elected representatives
3. unalienable rights: life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness are the unalienable rights in the declaration of independence; A variant of inalienable not able to be transferred to another
4. broadside: The first published copies of the Declaration of Independence; A newspaper printed on a large piece of paper, like a poster
5. ratified: to confirm by expressing consent * or, what's an easier word? A: Agree
5 Sentences
1. Jefferson was picked to write the Declaration of Independence because he was a Virginian, a southerner.
2. Democracy means that the delegates or representatives came to the congress to speak for the people, not themselves.
3. Pennsylvania did not agree with the Declaration of Independence, but they did agree with the unalienable rights.
4. Dunlap Broadside was the man who published the Declaration of Independence.
5. Congress ratified the Declaration of Independence; But Jefferson did not like the changes.
*Bonus: Find copy & paste the text of the Declaration of Independence here: AND READ IT!
When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. That whenever any form of government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security. --Such has been the patient sufferance of these colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former systems of government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over these states. To prove this, let facts be submitted to a candid world. He has refused his assent to laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good. He has forbidden his governors to pass laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them. He has refused to pass other laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of representation in the legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only. He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures. He has dissolved representative houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people. He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the legislative powers, incapable of annihilation, have returned to the people at large for their exercise; the state remaining in the meantime exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within. He has endeavored to prevent the population of these states; for that purpose obstructing the laws for naturalization of foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migration hither, and raising the conditions of new appropriations of lands. He has obstructed the administration of justice, by refusing his assent to laws for establishing judiciary powers. He has made judges dependent on his will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries. He has erected a multitude of new offices, and sent hither swarms of officers to harass our people, and eat out their substance. He has kept among us, in times of peace, standing armies without the consent of our legislature. He has affected to render the military independent of and superior to civil power. He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his assent to their acts of pretended legislation: For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us: For protecting them, by mock trial, from punishment for any murders which they should commit on the inhabitants of these states: For cutting off our trade with all parts of the world: For imposing taxes on us without our consent: For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of trial by jury: For transporting us beyond seas to be tried for pretended offenses: For abolishing the free system of English laws in a neighboring province, establishing therein an arbitrary government, and enlarging its boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule in these colonies: For taking away our charters, abolishing our most valuable laws, and altering fundamentally the forms of our governments: For suspending our own legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever. He has abdicated government here, by declaring us out of his protection and waging war against us. He has plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, burned our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people. He is at this time transporting large armies of foreign mercenaries to complete the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of cruelty and perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the head of a civilized nation. He has constrained our fellow citizens taken captive on the high seas to bear arms against their country, to become the executioners of their friends and brethren, or to fall themselves by their hands. He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavored to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian savages, whose known rule of warfare, is undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions. In every stage of these oppressions we have petitioned for redress in the most humble terms: our repeated petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people. Nor have we been wanting in attention to our British brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which, would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, enemies in war, in peace friends. We, therefore, the representatives of the United States of America, in General Congress, assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the name, and by the authority of the good people of these colonies, solemnly publish and declare, that these united colonies are, and of right ought to be free and independent states; that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the state of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as free and independent states, they have full power to levy war, conclude peace, contract alliances, establish commerce, and to do all other acts and things which independent states may of right do. And for the support of this declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor. New Hampshire: Josiah Bartlett, William Whipple, Matthew Thornton Massachusetts: John Hancock, Samual Adams, John Adams, Robert Treat Paine, Elbridge Gerry Rhode Island: Stephen Hopkins, William Ellery Connecticut: Roger Sherman, Samuel Huntington, William Williams, Oliver Wolcott New York: William Floyd, Philip Livingston, Francis Lewis, Lewis Morris New Jersey: Richard Stockton, John Witherspoon, Francis Hopkinson, John Hart, Abraham Clark Pennsylvania: Robert Morris, Benjamin Rush, Benjamin Franklin, John Morton, George Clymer, James Smith, George Taylor, James Wilson, George Ross Delaware: Caesar Rodney, George Read, Thomas McKean Maryland: Samuel Chase, William Paca, Thomas Stone, Charles Carroll of Carrollton Virginia: George Wythe, Richard Henry Lee, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Harrison, Thomas Nelson, Jr., Francis Lightfoot Lee, Carter Braxton North Carolina: William Hooper, Joseph Hewes, John Penn South Carolina: Edward Rutledge, Thomas Heyward, Jr., Thomas Lynch, Jr., Arthur Middleton Georgia: Button Gwinnett, Lyman Hall, George Walton Source: The Pennsylvania Packet, July 8, 1776
5 Facts & Details
1. The five men that were on the committee of the DOI were Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Robert Livingston, and Roger Sherman.
2. They were from Virginia, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, and New York.
3. Jefferson was upset that slavery was edited out of the Declaration. *what about slavery? A: He said it should be stopped and embolished in all states, that's weird because he is a southerner
4. The main purpose of the Declaration of Independence was to announce the colonies' separation from England
5. The words "United States" cannot be found in the Declaration of Independence
5 Questions
1. Who wrote the Declaration of Independence? A: Thomas Jefferson
2. Who were the "Committee of Five"? A: Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Robert Livingston, and Roger Sherman
3. Who wrote a controversial preamble in May of 1776? A: John Adams
4. How much of Jefferson's original draft was changed or altered by the Congress? A: The paragraph of slavery, and 400 words
*Bonus: which removed clause bothered Thomas Jefferson the most? A: the slavery one
*Bonus, bonus: why is that kinda ironic? A: Because he was a slave owner himself and a southerner!
5. What are the three unalienable rights listed in the Declaration of Independence? A: Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of happiness
Extra 5 x 5
The Declaratory Acts
- What are they? A: A declaration saying the repeal of the Stamp Act
- When were they passed? A: 1766
- How did the Colonists react? A: The declaration of Independence, The Boston tea Party
- Find one quote about the Declaratory Acts and copy & paste here: A slave who deals wisely will rule over a child who acts shamefully, and will share the inheritance as one of the family
- Who are two key people related to the Declaratory Acts? A: Sam Adams and James Otis
5 Math from Fraction Stories Skill 23 Ratios
1. Write the ratio of 3 to 9 three different ways: 3 to 9, 3:9, 3/9
2. Write the ratio in its simplest form: 1/3
3. Write the ratio 9 to 3 in simplest form: 3 to 1
4. Write ratio in word form in simplest form: four to one
5. Write ratio as fraction in simplest form: 2/3
Declaration of Independence WebQuest May 24, 2011
1. Follow this link to hear the Declaration of Independence read by some great actors:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETroXvRFoKY&NR=1
A. How do you feel? List 10 feeling words
Strong, Bold, Brave, Independent, Free, equal, ready to fight, unafraid, revolutionary, good
2. Follow this link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yb7MI8NQLoo&feature=fvwrel
3. Follow this link:
http://www.congressforkids.net/Independence_declaration_1.htm
A. Read each section and click "Learn More" through "Articles of Confederation"
B. Use this site for your 5 x 5 Facts & Details
4. After finishing your 5 x 5 and this webquest, follow this link and test your knowledge: http://www.funtrivia.com/playquiz/quiz824349725f8.html
Sophie's Blog: Write about the Broadway musical 1776!
Sophie's Blog: Hi everybody, today I watched 1776. This musical starred my relative, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and Benjamin Franklin. Here is blog about it: John Adams was at the top tower of the Continental Congress thinking about his beloved Abigail when his friend told him to come down. John didn't want to, he wanted independence so he screamed at the top of his lungs, so loud that Ben Franklin's cup broke, "We need a new country, A free country, one that is independent from the crown." The congress votes and John makes Thomas Jefferson write the Declaration. His loving wife comes over to Pennsylvania to see Thomas and tells John and Ben that she loves him because he can play the violin! She inspires Tom to write and the congress votes on yay's and nay's. Finally all states say yay and the Declaration of Independence is out!
Chemistry Chapter Report for Amazing Kitchen Chemistry Projects You Can Build Yourself
by Cynthia Light Brown
Chapter Name: Solids
- List any glossary words and definitions.
NA
- List 5 facts/details you learned from the chapter.
1. Quartz, Diamond, Sand Salt, and metal are crystalline solids
2. If you leave a candle on something hot or in the sun, it will melt in to one big solid.
3. Most plastics, tires, wood, fabric, and paper are solids that are both crystalline and amorphous
4. Window Glass, raw rubber, volcanic glass, wax and fulgurites are amorphous solids.
5. There was once a hotel made entirely of salt, but it got washed away and put more salt in to the ocean!
- Summarize the chapter in at least 5 sentences.
This chapter tells about solids and how it relates to what I'm learning in chemistry. There are two kinds of solids, crystalline, and amorphous. Crystalline solids are usually harder than amorphous solids. But they are both solids all the same. This chapter leads up to a chemistry project that makes a crystalline solid.
- What did you learn?
I learned that both amorphous and crystallines can be mixed together but they are still working on a name for that. I learned that Benjamin Franklin was working with solids as an inventor, and I learned what solids are.
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