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Day 1
Aim: What were the causes of the American Revolution?
1) Read about the causes of the American Revolution and answer questions
2) Cartoon on the causes and answer questions
Day 2 (Time providing)
Aim: Why were the colonies upset with the English tax laws?
1) The King’s M & Ms activity
2) Discussion questions focusing on the arbitrary and unfair methods by which
Parliament taxed the Colonists & methods of protest
Day 3-6
Aim: What were the causes of the American Revolution?
1) We will be working in stations for the first three days of our project. In each
station you will learn about one of the causes of the American Revolution.
Station 1: Townshend Acts
Station 2: Boston Massacre
Station 3: first Continental Congress
Station 4: Tea Party and Intolerable Acts
Station 5: Battles of Lexington and Concord
Station 6: Brain Pop video summary on the computer
2) On the fourth day we will be going over the answers to our station work.
(See below to check your work)
Station 1
The Townshend acts and
Taxes
Task:
 Read pages 176-179 in the text book
 Answer the following questions in your binder
 Use POQ!
1) In order to get more revenue, what imported goods did Britain tax?
Taxed sugar, coffee, molasses and indigo
2) What was the Stamp Act?
Taxed legal papers, advertisements, newspapers, almanacs, calendars, cards
etc. A stamp was required to prove that the tax was paid. Only a few cents.
3) Explain the phrase “taxation without representation.”
Colonists did not like that the laws were made in Parliament where they had
no say.
4) Name three ways the colonists protested the Stamp Act.
Boycotts, Sons of Liberty, Stamp Act Congress
5) What were the four provisions or parts of the Townshend Acts?
1) Duties (tax on imports)
2) Writs of Assistance (search houses at any time)
3) Americans will pay Br salaries
4) Cancelled NY Assembly b/c they refused to pay
6) In what ways did the colonists protest the Townshend Acts?
Boycott, refusing to sell imports, Daughter’s of Liberty, rioting
Station 2
The Boston Massacre
Find out what happened at the Boston Massacre by reading “Drawing
Conclusions from Viewpoints,” and from looking at Paul Revere’s
propaganda engraving.
Task:
What is your point of view?
 Combine all 5 “points of view” and write a 15 sentence news article
explaining to the public the events of the Boston Massacre.
 Discuss who, what, where, why, how.
 Summarize in your own words for the article.
 Do not copy any of the provided sentences directly.
 Make a catchy headline for your article.
We will have a volunteer read their news article to the class.
Discuss propaganda as a method by which people can get their message
across to the public. Presents one side of the story and encourages support
of your beliefs.
Station 3
The First Continental
Congress
During the 1st Continental Congress representatives from the colonies
gathered together in Philadelphia to discuss their rights and the current
situation with England.
Task:
a) Read the passage “The First Continental Congress” and answer the
questions that follow.
 Answer the questions in your binder
 Use POQ!
1) Who met at the First Continental Congress?
56 Delegates from 12 colonies
2) When and where did the First Continental Congress meet?
Philadelphia, September 1774
3) What three decisions were made by the delegates?
1) train militias
2) boycott
3) Intolerable Acts are illegal
b) Read “Pigs and Pick Pockets.”
 Describe the living conditions in Philadelphia by
drawing a picture illustrating anything that you read
about.
A student from the class will share their drawing
Station 4
The Tea Act, Boston Tea
Party, Intolerable Acts,
and Committees of
Correspondence
Committees of Correspondence were created in all thirteen colonies
so that colonists in one colony could correspond with those in the other
colonies. (There were no telephones, cell phones, or the internet!) The
committees told about how the British were threatening their freedom, as
well as what they were doing to protect their rights.
Task:
 Read the notes, “The Tea Tax and Results,” to learn about the topics
listed at the top of this page.
 Pretend that you are a member of the Massachusetts Committee of
Correspondence in 1774.
 Write a one-page letter of correspondence to a relative in the Virginia
Colony and explain the following:
1) What happened at the Boston Tea Party and why?
Colonists boarded ships and dumped 342 chests of tea
overboard to protest the Tea Act
2) Why did King George issue the Coercive Acts?
As punishment for the Tea Party
3) What laws made up the Coercive Acts?
a) quartering b) harbor closed c) Governor’s power
increased d) British court trials for colonists
4) Why did the colonists call them Intolerable Acts?
Because they were unbearable
5) How did the laws affect your life as a colonist in Boston?
Up to each student’s individual creativity
We will have a student volunteer to read their letter out loud
Station 5
The Battles of Lexington and
Concord
The British reached Lexington early in the morning of April 19, 1775.
This battle would mark the beginning of the Revolutionary War and became
known as the shot heard ‘round the world.
Task:
a) Three men rode horse back on an April night in 1775: Paul
Revere, William Dawes, and Dr. Samuel Prescott. Each
carried the same message: “The redcoats are coming.” You
may have heard of Paul Revere, because a poet, Henry
Wadsworth Longfellow wrote a famous poem about his
midnight ride to Lexington to warn the militia in Lexington
of the British approach.
 Read the excerpt from Longfellow’s poem, Paul
Revere’s Ride, and answer the questions that follow
 Use POQ!
Answer in your notebook
1. On what date did Paul Revere make his famous ride?
April 18, 1775
2. Why did Revere want his friend to hang a lantern in the North
Church Tower?
To know how the British were coming (by land or sea)
3. According to the signal, which route would the British take?
Sea, “A second lamp in the Belfry burns.”
b) Read the primary reading excerpts by Corporal Munroe and
Colonel
Smith.
 Answer questions 1-3 in your notebook
 Use POQ!
1) The regulars (British) charged, doubled ranks,
marched at a quick step, yelled at the colonists and
fired a pistol
2) Smith said that he and his men simply went over to
ask why the colonists were assembled and secure their
arms
3) Opinion
Station 6
Overview of the Causes of
the American Revolution
Task:
 Watch the Brain Pop movie titled the “Causes of the American
Revolution.”
 Take the “Graded quiz” afterwards.
WRITE YOUR ANSWERS DIRECTLY ON THE QUIZ!
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1)
2)
3)
4)
5)
Review your answers
c
6) c
b
7) a
d
8) a
a
9) b
b
10) c
 Watch the Brain Pop movie once more.
How did you do?
Day 7
Aim: What was the final straw that broke the camel’s back?
1) Students will cut out from a piece of paper the various causes of the American
Revolution.
2) Students will cut out a picture of a camel and paste it onto a sheet of construction
paper, pasting the straws on top of the camel to illustrate how the colonists had
had enough…the final straw being troops sent into Lexington and Concord.
Day 8
Aim: To review the causes of the American Revolution.
1) review game
Day 9
Exam
Day 10 (Time providing)
Aim: Johnny Tremain: The Boston Tea Party
1) We will watch the Disney movie Johnny Tremain on one of the major causes of
the Revolution.
2) Answer questions on the movie to better understand what actions took place
Day 11 (Time providing)
Aim: Johnny Tremain: The Shot ‘Heard Round the World.
1) We will watch the Disney movie Johnny Tremain on the first battle of the
Revolutionary War.
2) Answer questions on the movie to better understand what actions took place