Chapter 6: Toss and Talk
--surprises/questions/observations/interesting facts from the reading
Crash Course:
Boston Massacre and Boston Tea Party (5:34)
John Dickinson
-Reaction to Townshend Acts
--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
-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 based on the above questions
Exit Card: 1- Create a newspaper headline, from the Massacre or the Tea Party, that would help unite colonists.
2- Now, explain an economic and political cause of the Massacre of Tea Party (whichever you didn't choose previously)
3- What do you already know about "Common Sense" and the Declaration of Independence?
HW: Read pg. 202-211 of Chapter 7.