10.20 Letters from a Farmer...The Boston Massacre and Tea Party

Due Today: Chapter 6

Toss and Talk

--surprises/questions/observations/interesting facts from the reading

Return Great Awakening Essays

Crash Course:

Boston Massacre and Boston Tea Party

John Dickinson

-Reaction to Townshend Acts

--READ Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania

• Why would Dickinson want the audience to think that he was a farmer?
• What is Dickinson's main political argument? Economic argument?
• Does Dickinson believe that the colonies should break free from England?

Differing Interpretations: Stations (Primary Source Excerpts and Visuals)

AT EACH STATION: Write an observation about each picture on its corresponding whiteboard.

Consider the following:

• What economic and political factors led each side toward this event?
• Where is this information coming from?
• Who is the source and what is their goal?
• How could this event, and the corresponding propaganda, have sparked the American Revolution?

When you finish:

-Take a primary source packet and close-read, keeping the questions above in mind

Exit Card:

Create a newspaper headline, from the Massacre or the Tea Party, that would help unite colonists.

HW: Be sure to read at least pg. 202-211 of Chapter 7