Unit Four
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Essential Question: How can I use everything I know about research to learn all I can about one aspect of the American Revolution?
Our researchers have all chosen a subtopic about the American Revolution to research. The topics that our class will be working on include:
Books:
Liberty!; How the Revolutionary War Began, Penner
George Versus George, Schanzer
Give Me Liberty: The Story of the Declaration of Independence, Freedmand
The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere, Longfellow
Adler, David. (2003). Heroes of the Revolution. New York: Holiday House.
Burt, Barbara. (2003). The Eve of the Revolution: The Colonial Adventures of Benjamin Wilcox.
Fritz, Jean. (1976).What’s the Big Idea, Ben Franklin? New York: Puffin Group.
Gregory, Josh. (2012). The Revolutionary War. New York: Scholastic. [Mentor Text]
Meltzer, Milton. The American Revolutionaries: A History in Their Own Words.
Penner, Lucile Rect. (2002). Liberty! How the Revolutionary War Began. New York: Random House.
Websites: (copy and paste link)
http://americanhistory.about.com/od/revolutionarywar/Revolutionary_War.htm
http://www.theamericanrevolution.org/
http://www.archives.gov/research/start/
http://www.earlyamerica.com/
http://www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/revolution/
http://www.let.rug.nl/usa/outlines/history-1994/the-road-to-independence/
http://www2.lhric.org/pocantico/revolution/revolution.htm
http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/themes/colonial-america/
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/continental/timeline.html
http://www.pbs.org/ktca/liberty/chronicle.html
http://www.pbs.org/ktca/liberty/chronicle_timeline.html
http://www.revolutionary-war-and-beyond.com/
http://www.socialstudiesforkids.com/subjects/revolutionarywar.htm
http://www.ushistory.org/
http://www.ushistory.org/declaration/revwartimeline.htm
- Students will learn how to organize their learning so they can clearly understand what they read across texts and teach others what they have learned.
- Students will be able to transfer and apply why they have learned about researching to take on a new research project.
- Students will begin to notice how different authors present different information, including noticing the facts and perspectives they include or exclude. In addition, readers will think about why authors write about their topic in order to sway a readers' thinking about topics.
Our researchers have all chosen a subtopic about the American Revolution to research. The topics that our class will be working on include:
- Boston Tea Party
- Boston Massacre
- Famous Women
- Battle of Lexington
- Battle of Yorktown
- Declaration of Independence
- Minutemen
Books:
Liberty!; How the Revolutionary War Began, Penner
George Versus George, Schanzer
Give Me Liberty: The Story of the Declaration of Independence, Freedmand
The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere, Longfellow
Adler, David. (2003). Heroes of the Revolution. New York: Holiday House.
Burt, Barbara. (2003). The Eve of the Revolution: The Colonial Adventures of Benjamin Wilcox.
Fritz, Jean. (1976).What’s the Big Idea, Ben Franklin? New York: Puffin Group.
Gregory, Josh. (2012). The Revolutionary War. New York: Scholastic. [Mentor Text]
Meltzer, Milton. The American Revolutionaries: A History in Their Own Words.
Penner, Lucile Rect. (2002). Liberty! How the Revolutionary War Began. New York: Random House.
Websites: (copy and paste link)
http://americanhistory.about.com/od/revolutionarywar/Revolutionary_War.htm
http://www.theamericanrevolution.org/
http://www.archives.gov/research/start/
http://www.earlyamerica.com/
http://www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/revolution/
http://www.let.rug.nl/usa/outlines/history-1994/the-road-to-independence/
http://www2.lhric.org/pocantico/revolution/revolution.htm
http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/themes/colonial-america/
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/continental/timeline.html
http://www.pbs.org/ktca/liberty/chronicle.html
http://www.pbs.org/ktca/liberty/chronicle_timeline.html
http://www.revolutionary-war-and-beyond.com/
http://www.socialstudiesforkids.com/subjects/revolutionarywar.htm
http://www.ushistory.org/
http://www.ushistory.org/declaration/revwartimeline.htm
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- Take a virtual tour of the locations you will be studying in this unit._
- Liberty Kids Activitieshttp://www.libertyskids.com/behindscenes.html_