Subject: History, Social Studies
Lesson Length: 40 - 45 mins
Topic: Road to Democracy
Brief Description: Students will identify ideologies that led to the American Revolution.
Know Before You Start: Students should have prior knowledge of the effects of the French and Indian War on the colonists.
Hook:
- 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.
Activity:
- 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.
Closure:
- 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.
Differentiation:
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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.
The American Revolution
If You Lived at the Time of the American Revolution
