Essential Questions 1. How did the development of the colonies lead to rebellion? 2. What were the major causes of the American Revolution?
Overview In this unit students will learn about the tensions that developed as the British government placed tax after tax on the colonies.
Learning Targets and Topics
1. I can examine the reasons why Great Britain started to impose taxes on the colonies. 2. I can examine the how the colonist reacted to the Stamp Act. 3. I can examine primary source documents on the the Stamp Act. 4. I can analyze how political cartoons began and how to read them. 5. I can examine why the Stamp Act was repealed. 6. I can examine different view point on the Boston Massacre 7. I can examine the outcome of the trial on the Boston Massacre through a role-play. 8. I can analyze how the colonists resented continued taxes from the British Government that led to the Boston Tea Party. 9. I can examine the Intolerable Acts and decide to what extent where Acts fair or not.
Key Terms 1. Great Britain raise taxes. 2. Taxation Without representation. 3. Stamp Act 4. Townshend Act. 5. Boston Massacre. 6. The Trial of the Boston Massacre 7. The Boston Tea party 8. The Intolerable Acts.
Content Big Idea In the beginning, the colonies were proud to be British. There were small instances of Parliament's control that bothered the colonists, like the Currency Acts of 1751 and 1764. But when the French and Indian War took place (1754 – 1763), King George III lost a great deal of money due to buying expensive supplies for his army and the colonies. In order to pay off his debt, he imposed taxes on the colonies without their consent. This outraged the colonists. The colonists did not like being taxed for things that had always had free. They immediately began a boycott of British goods. Now it was the king's turn to be furious. King George wasted no time in sending soldiers across the Atlantic to make sure the colonies were behaving as they should. Soon, what is perhaps the most famous of the causes of the American Revolution came to pass. A young ship owner brought over a ship full of taxed tea from Britain and declared he would see it unloaded ...
SKILLS Make inferences while reading Support evidence using textual evidence Identify point of view of different historical figures in a text. Making connections and using the text to support connections:
1. Text to text 2. Text to world 3. Cause & Effect
Reading Strategies: Informational Chart Context Clues Identifying Main Idea Visualization Activating Prior Knowledge Compare and contrast. Argumentative essay.
ACTIVITES - Using primary and secondary sources. - Annotating texts - Classroom discussions - Analyzing documents - Writing an argumentative essay. - Analyzing a the trial of the Boston Massacre.
Assignment In Class Essay Will be started in class and finished for homework Document based questions and essay due on the causes of the American Revolution. Students have to write an argumentative essay on choosing to be a Patriot or Loyalist.
Culminating Assessment: The student will write the front page for a newspaper, giving it an original title, including four articles depicting four separate events of the revolution. He /she will have at least three pictures on the front page. He/she will include an editorial page that includes an editorial from a patriot's perspective and one from a loyalist's perspective.
Writing piece on the Boston Massacre. Due at the end of the trial about the end of the Boston Massacre.
TEXTBOOK Text book assignments due the next day after being assigned. Text book assignments include reading activities and questions.
PERFORMANCE TASK, TESTS and Quizzes A unit test will be given at the end of Unit. Unit test at the end of Unit December 1,2015 A study guide will be posted for test.
Two Quizzes will be given when a section of the unit is completed.