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AMERICAN REVOLUTION:  CORE KNOWLEDGE and State Standard 3 Objectives 1 and 2:  Students will understand the chronology and significance of key events leading to self-government.

Week of Nov.23-27:

23rd-- 2nd Continental Congress-Students will be placed in 13 groups representing the 13 colonies.  Each colony will have an issue card to debate.  They will debate both sides of the issue.  Students will then put it to a vote, 2/3 being the majority. 

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Core Knowledge and State Standard 2 Objectives 1 and 2:  THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION

Students will understand the chronology and significance of key events leading to self-government.  Students will describe how the movement toward revolution culminated in a Declaration of Independence.  Students will evaluate the Revolutionary War's impact on self-rule. 

Students will explain the role of events that led to declaring independence (French and Indian War, Stamp Act, Boston Tea Party, etc).  Students will analyze arguments both for and against declaring independence using primary sources from Loyalists and patriot perspectives.  Students will also be able to explain the content and purpos of the Declaration of Independence.

We will plot a time line of the key events of the Revolutionary War.  Students will learn about important individuals who rose to greatness as leaders such as James Madison, George Washington, Ben Franklin, and Paul Revere.  We will discuss how the Revolutionary War changed the way people thought about their own rights.  Studens will discuss how the winning of the war set in motion a need for a new government that would serve the needs of the new states.


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