You should already have an understanding of some of the events that led up to the American Revolution.
Here are some people, places, events, and concepts you should be familiar with to understand the American Revolution. If you don't understand the items listed below, use the materials below - activities and video clips - to build your background knowledge. To organize your background knowledge, you can keep your notes in the attached Vocabulary Organizer.
Resources To Build Background Knowledge
1. Book: Reading A-Z Level X: Seeds of the Revolution.
Through RAZ Kids, students can be assigned to read this book independently or listen to the eBook.
2. Review 13 colonies:
3. French and Indian War, 1754-1763
4. Taxation - Townshend Acts, Sugar Act (1764), Stamp Act (1765)
5. Boston Massacre (1770)
6. Tea Act and the Boston Tea Party (1773)
7. Intolerable Acts (1774) and Quartering Act
8. Patrick Henry
9. Paul Revere
10. War Begins, Lexington and Concord, 1775
11. Battle of Bunker Hill, June 1775
12. Sybil Ludington
13. Valley Forge
14. Benedict Arnold
15. BrainPop - Causes of the American Revolution (You will have to Login to BrainPop, do a search for 'Revolution' and click on the video for Causes of the American Revolution.)
16. You can also watch BrainPop videos on: John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and George Washington. To learn about Patrick Henry and King George III, use World Book Kids (outside of school, you will have to log in to this resource).
17. Here is a video clip on Causes of the American Revolution by 8th grade Social Studies teacher in Minnesota, Mr. Canton. This should also help build your background knowledge.
Or use this link to the video http://viewpure.com/ilOhWwexHnI
18. You can review this "Steps Toward The Revolution" PowerPoint to build your background knowledge.
** TEACHER: 19. You can learn more about the Declaration of Independence by completing the Declaration of Independence Differentiated Learning Activity.
Activities below updated from the following: Winter 2009 Teaching With Primary Sources Quarterly Learning Activity - Elementary Level
http://www.loc.gov/teachers/tps/quarterly/differentiated_instruction/pdf/elementary_activity.pdf
Declaration of Independence
PROCEDURE:
Part 1 - Differentiated Activities
http://www.americaslibrary.gov/aa/index.php PHPSESSID=1005eac9748fac376f1d08ef7c477b08
http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/h?ammem/bdsbib:@field(NUMBER+@od1(bdsdcc+02101))
Part 2 - All learners
The Declaration of Independence: Rewriting The Rough Draft online activity
http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/presentationsandactivities/activities/rough-draft/