Class Recap 10/12

Today in class we worked in groups. Each group was given a legal document. My group was given "Commen Sense" by Thomas Paine. He was a strong believer in Amercian colonies becoming independent from Britain. Another group was given "Plain Truth" which was a Loyalists response to Paines "Common Sense" in which Paine was called a " political quack." The third group was given the Olive Petition. the Olive Petition was written by the Second Continental Congress  toKing George lll and was the first document pushing the colonies away from Britain. To learn about the other groups documents, we split up so people from each group were brought together in a new group. they shared the information they got. I think this as a good way of learning about the other two documents because since we were on such small groups, we were able to discuss our documents in depth and clear up any confusion by talking to each other and asking ech other questions.