What does "equal" mean? Does it mean EVERYONE should be exactly the same? OR Does it mean that EVERYONE should have the same opportunity? That is what we are going to be looking at over the next few weeks. As Americans we believe in equality, but how exactly do we define equality? I am going to present the students with articles, speeches, music, poetry and artifacts, like the one below, to determine what they think is right and wrong and what equality means to them.
"When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political band which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earrth, 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."
-The Declaration of Independence
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