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The Great Awakening
Students will differentiate between the moral and political ideas of the Great Awakening
Students will analyze various documents in connection with the Great Awakening and in the process obtain critical thinking and close reading skills
Acceptable Evidence: Guided Questions, Guided Worksheet, & Document Based Question
The instructor will employ a specific method of note taking for students to use (showing them how to do it). We do.
Students will discuss the documents in a group setting (they do it).
Students will work in new groups and answer guided questions.
Students will work in pairs and complete the guided worksheet.
Students will do document based question on their own, based on everything they have researched. (You do it)
The Causes for Revolution
Students will distinguish and evaluate the social, ideological, and political conditions that led to the American Revolution
Acceptable Evidence: Guided Notes and Questions to be answered and completed during lecture
Teacher will give a lecture on the causes of the American Revolution
Students will fill out Guided Notes & Do a simulation on Boston Massacre
Students will answer the closing questions to the lectures
Constitutional Republic
Students will analyze and present information regarding America’s democratic traditions carried on by its classical liberal past through a class project.
Acceptable Evidence: Poster with sensory figure and Venn Diagram
The instructor will seperate the class into groups of 4.
Students wil create a sensory figure and venn diagram on a political figure (to contrast English and American govt' traditions)
The various groups will each present their sensory figure to the rest of the class as they take notes.
Main topic
Declaration of Independence
Students will analyze and dissect the important elements of The Declaration of Independence and what it meant during the colonial time period.
Acceptable Evidence: Four Door Books
Instructor will go over key elements of Declaration of Independence
Students will make a foldable Four Door Books and complete notes answering questions pertaining to the Preamble, Declaration of Natural Rights, Grievances, and Resolution
Students will share with a classmate what they included in their Four-Door Book.
Effects on the World
Students will identify and analyze the effects of the American Revolution on other nations such as France
Acceptable Evidence: Venn Diagram
The instructor will give a lecture as students take guided notes.
Students will walk around the room, view the various sentences, and fill in their Venn Diagrams.
Students will complete another Venn Diagram digitally for homework.
Revolutionary Thinkers
Students will explain and defend the various perspectives of revolutionary thinkers prior to the American Revolution (from John Locke to Patrick Henry)
Acceptable Evidence: Deliberation Notes & Guided Notes
Students will be split up into groups and required to research their topics.
The representative of each group will represent that group in debating the other representatives of the other groups.
At the end, students will be asked to write about which viewpoint they agreed with the most.