Student+Activities+Page.

This Page Details exactly what we we'll be doing and learning in class for each day.

Day 1:Assign students to particular primary documents with either a rebel or loyalists opinion. SOme of these documents these documents will include Patrick Henry's "give me liberty or give me death" speech, and "The Plain Truth" which is from a loyalists perspective. After students have had time to examine their assigned documents and to fill out the [|Document Analysis Worksheet], they are ready to prepare for an in-class debate. The students will be split into groups depending on the document they were given. There are four documents so they will be split into 4 groups. They will be able to discuss there ideas and opinions of their given document and what they wrote down in their document analysis work sheet, in their groups they will prepare for their in class debate. Students will then be handed a [|Rubric for Point-Counterpoint Debate], to present students with instructions for preparing for the classroom debate. Have them research the additional information through the internet, they then will prepare notes for their in class debate. day 2: As outlined in the [|Rubric], students then do a "point counterpoint" debate during class time. Day 3: Teacher will give lecture using [|Powerpoint Presentation] (The first one.) Day 4: Student will go online and explore the Interactive map. This map allows students to click on famous cities in the revolution and answer questions about that city. The teacher will guide the students through the interactive map. They should be able to answer all questions in interactive map accordingly. Then students will log online to play the Road to Revolution Game. The teacher will also guide them through this. The teacher will then give a review for the quiz on day five. Day 5: The students will be assessed on what they have learned. This quiz will consist of 10 multiple choice, 5 fill in the blank, 10 matching, and 1 short paragraph essay question.