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shared by Garth Holman on 29 Nov 12 - No Cached

This interactive graphic organizer helps students develop an outline for one of three types of comparison essays: whole-to-whole, similarities-to-differences, or point-to-point. A link in the introduction to the Comparison and Contrast Guide give students the chance to get definitions and look at examples before they begin working. The tool offers multiple ways to navigate information including a graphic on the right that allows students to move around the map without having to work in a linear fashion. The finished map can be saved, e-mailed, or printed.
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shared by Kalina P on 26 Nov 12 - No Cached

first comprehensive, public call for independence, advancing arguments that far exceeded previous critiques of English rule in their radicalism and scope.
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mass audience, extending beyond the literate public as colonists read it aloud in a wide variety of settings. George Washington, for example, was so affected by Common Sense that he relinquished all personal hop
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of mending fences with England and ordered the pamphlet to be distributed to his troops.
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clear case for independence
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directly attacked the political, economic, and ideological obstacles to achieving it.
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British rule was responsible for nearly every problem in colonial society
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Challenging the King's paternal authority in the harshest terms, he mocked royal actions in America and declared that "even brutes do not devour their young, nor savages make war upon their own families."
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unified action.
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only be resolved by colonial independence.
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in the most graphic, compelling and recognizable terms the suffering that the colonies had endured, reminding his readers of the torment and trauma that British policy had inflicted upon them.
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resonated with their firm belief in liberty and determined opposition to injustice
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blunt language that colonists of different backgrounds could understand.
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shared by cglosser c on 14 Apr 14 - No Cached

Did you know that 600 years ago people used to make copies of books by writing each page by hand? It would take months to make one book! Johannes Gutenberg changed that. He invented the printing press
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- cglosser c on 14 Apr 14
  
  Without the printing press, we wouldn't have technology today.
  
  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Without the printing press, we wouldn't have technology today.</div>
  
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- cglosser c on 14 Apr 14
  
  Books were very expensive back then.
  
  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Books were very expensive back then.</div>
  
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Gutenberg printed words on paper the way you would use a stamp and an inkpa
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Gutenberg's printing press made it possible to make books more easily and cheapl
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Then more people bought and read book
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