Do Now

Watch the following clip from V for Vendetta (2005)

and answer the following question: do you agree with
Evy? Are ideas more powerful than the people who
believe them? Please respond in complete sentences.

“Remember, remember , the fifth of November, the gunpowder

treason and plot. I know of no reason why the gunpowder treason
Should ever be forgot". But what of the man? I know his name was
Guy Fawkes, and I know that, in 1605, he attempted to blow up the
houses of Parliament. But who was he really? What was he like? We
are told to remember the idea, not the man, because a man can fail.
He can be caught. He can be killed and forgotten. But four hundred
years later an idea can still change the world. I've witnessed
firsthand the power of ideas. I've seen people kill in the name of
them; and die defending them.
Learning Target/Agenda
Learning Target: I can explain how the
media influenced Colonists’ decision to support
the Revolution

Agenda:
 Do Now: “V for Vendetta” clip
 Group Practice: analysis of “Join or Die”
 Individual Practice: analysis of Common
Sense
 Homework: Causes and Effects Chart
 Vocabulary
Revolution: major change in power,
often by overthrowing a government

 American Revolution: thirteen

colonies overthrow Great Britain and
become an independent country
 Classwork
Analyze Benjamin Franklin’s 1754 cartoon “Join or
Die.”

What do the Colonists have to join?

 Classwork
1. “I challenge the warmest advocate for
reconciliation to show a single advantage
that this continent can reap (benefit)
by being connected with Great Britain. I
repeat the challenge; not a single
advantage is derived..
 Notes
Common Sense:
pamphlet written by Thomas Paine

 designed to convince Colonists to join

the Revolutionary War
 Wrap Up
Which would inspire you more, Join
or Die or Common Sense to join the
Revolution?