At a Glance:
| Grades: | 5 |
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| Subject: | History; Social Studies |
| Topic: | Road to Democracy |
| Lesson Length: | 40 - 45 mins |
Standards / Framework:
What will students learn in this activity?
Students will identify ideologies that led to the American Revolution.
What should students know before this activity?
Students should have prior knowledge of the effects of the French and Indian War on the colonists.
How can teachers introduce this lesson?
- Tell your students you are going to allow them to use their cell phone in your classroom; but they are going to have to pay a tax each time they want to use it. Discuss with the class.
- Would this be fair?
- Does the teacher have a right to tax students?
- Should students get a voice in how the classroom operates?
- Relate this discussion to what the colonists were experiencing with Great Britain.
What will students do?
- Have students identify a reason that colonists were upset with Great Britain.
- Using the sample comic as a guide, create a comic that illustrates the colonists point of view in respect to the reason selected.
How can teachers wrap up the lesson?
- Students will place their comic on a classroom timeline, digitally or in print, to visualize the road to the revolution.
- Discuss the timeline using vocabulary words like revolution, resistance, and reform.
How can teachers differentiate this activity?
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Allow students to use the speech-to-text feature.
- Allow students to use the voiceover feature to read their comics aloud.
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Allow students to work with peer model.
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Provide sentence frames as needed.
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Preteach vocabulary, e.g., revolution, resistance, and reform.
American Revolution
If You Lived At The Time Of The American Revolution
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