Thomas Paine Common Sense - Vocabulary
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Common Sense Vocabulary activity - Have students select new vocabulary from quotes and illustrate their meaning!
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- Vocabulary Term With Definition
- An organized group of persons associated together for religious, benevolent, cultural, scientific, political, patriotic, or other purposes.
- society (noun)
- Passage From Common Sense
- "Society is produced by our wants, and government by wickedness; the former promotes our happiness positively by uniting our affections, the latter negatively by restraining our vices. The one encourages intercourse, the other creates distinctions. The first is a patron, the last a punisher."
- Visualization of the Vocabulary Term
- Town Meeting
- We should plan a town-wide picnic for next Saturday!
- Great idea, Mike!
- The political direction and control exercised over the actions of the members, citizens, or inhabitants of communities, societies, and states
- government (noun)
- "Society in every state is a blessing, but government even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one; for when we suffer, or are exposed to the same miseries by a government, which we might expect in a country without government, our calamity is heightened by reflecting that we furnish the means by which we suffer."
- Mr. Jones, you have been found guilty of arson and will be sentenced to twenty years in prison.
- Arousing disgust or aversion; offensive or repulsive:
- repugnant (adjective)
- "It is repugnant to reason, to the universal order of things, to all examples from former ages, to suppose, that this continent can longer remain subject to any external power."
- Although I am thousands of miles away...I'm in charge!
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