Greetings! This is the last full week before the holiday break. Our content focus is shifting towards the American Revolution. If you know you will be absent for any reason, including National History Day activities, please get materials and assignments ahead of time.
Monday: (Both of these items we didn’t get to do last week).
1. Quiz – Short essay response: Connect the Salem Witch Trials or the Anne Hutchinson trial with a current day example of intolerance. Use target vocabulary.
2. Complete Colonies Map. (Map Quiz on Thursday)
Tuesday:
1. Ben Franklin - Renaissance Revolutionary: He was easily the most famous American of his day, and perhaps one of the most influential founding fathers. Student groups will choose one aspect (founding drafter of the Declaration, inventor/scientist, author, civil engineer, fire chief , philanthropist ect.) of Ben Franklin to read-up on and share it with the class.
HW: Due Wednesday: Poor Richard’s Almanac – Students will translate several of Franklin’s classic proverbial writings – what insight might they give us the revolutionary spirit of the era?
Wednesday:
1. HW check and share
2. Ben Franklin groups will finish their mini-research and begin presenting to the class.
Thursday:
1. If needed, finish Franklin presentations.
2. The Boston Massacre: We will begin with a shared reading which presents this event as much as a colonist propaganda tool as well as a symbol of British aggression.
3. Student Play: The Boston Massacre
Friday:
1. Thomas Paine’s Common Sense was a lyrically written call for action against the British. Students will be paraphrasing sections, turning Common Sense into a song to be performed in class on Monday.