In this activity, students will close read and analyze excerpts of the Thomas Paine’s Common Sense to create or fill in a mind map and answer text-dependent question in order to determine: What is common sense? Is independence common sense? This activity includes:Primary source excerpts – 5 pages or 4 sets of Base/Expert GroupsTen Text-DependentMind Map Template – a great differentiation tool!Answer Keys – TDQs and Mind Map! This activity can be completed in four ways:Individual Document Analys