American Revolutionary War 6-8
Battles of Lexington and Concord in 1775 to Treaty of Paris in 1783
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Cause of the Revolutionary War
Christine Velazquez
Description of Lesson: Create a timeline of events leading up to the Revolutionary War with pictures. This lesson should be used after the students have already had exposure to the events leading up to it.
Paul Revere's Ride
Ed DeBerri
Description of Lesson: Teacher will have students read the one paragraph description of Paul Revere's ride in their Social Studies textbook. Teacher will then have the students read and listen to Longfellow's poem about the ride. Students will discuss and analyze the poem. Students will then read Revere's own description of the circumstances of his famous ride. Finally, students will discuss the two works, comparing, contrasting, and analyzing.
North Carolina Leading the Way for Independence
Christine Velazquez
Description of Lesson: Comparing and contrasting the Halifax Resolves and the Declaration of Independence.
Propaganda and the Revolution
Holly Byrd
Description of Lesson: While studying pre-Revolutionary events, Benjamin Franklin and the Albany Plan of Union, students will learn the definition of propaganda using a chart of propaganda techniques. They will then analyze the "Join, or Die" political cartoon, its meanings, and intentions. Students will use this knowledge to create their own polictical cartoon to represent their opinion of an issue in their school or community.
The Drama of the Revolutionary War
Christine Velazquez
Description of Lesson: Reader’s Theater on the causes of the Revolutionary War and events leading up to it.
Declaration of Independence
Joe Newton
Description of Lesson: By studying different excerpts of the Magna Carta, The English Bill of Rights and The Declaration of Independence the class will explore how each document, in succession, was built upon its predecessor. This will bring an increased knowledge of how truly “English/British” the Declaration of Independence was in its foundations and goals.
Introduction to the Declaration of Independence
Ed DeBerri
Description of Lesson: Students will: a) be assigned two sections of the Declaration of Independence to review, study, and draw and color pictures of; b) the class as a whole will read the Declaration with each student reading his/her assigned section; and c) view and then, in a teacher-facilitated, whole-class discussion, compare and contrast the interpretations of the drafting of the Declaration in the HBO mini-series John Adams and the musical 1776.
Johnny Tremain
Ed DeBerri
Description of Lesson: Students, who have already been introduced to and reading Johnny Tremain and who also are concurrently studying the causes of the American Revolution, will independently with teacher guidance, complete a four-part, teacher-developed, Internet-based activity on Boston in the years 1773 to 1775.
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