Units of Study with Handheld Use

Prelude to the Revolution Unit Overview Enduring Understanding People and groups can influence and shape policy through cooperation and conflict. Essential Questions: How did taxation and other events lead to the American Revolution? How did individuals and groups influence and shape policy during the American Revolution Era? How did the events leading to the American Revolution impact England and the colonies politically, socially, and economically? How are the concepts expressed in the Declaration of Independence still important to us today? (unit overview)
Lesson 1	Soldiers of Liberty (Colonial Williamsburg Electronic Fieldtrip) Students will view a video about the Soldiers who fought in the American Revolution. While viewing the video, students will infer reasons for the American Revolution. Students will record their reasons in AlphaWord as they watch.
Lesson 2	Prelude to Revolution Stations Students will read and analyze primary and secondary source documents on events leading to the revolution in order to complete a people/place search. Students will rotate to six different stations. This lesson will take two days.
Lesson 3	Prelude to Revolution Vocabulary Students will use Note Cards in Inspiration to learn vocabulary. They will use that knowledge to enter their words in their Vocabulary Notebooks using the Frayer Model.
Lesson 4	Prelude to Revolution-Gathering Information Students will choose a style of learning to gather information on the key questions for the unit. They will put their research in Docs to Go (Power Point)
Lesson 5	Prelude to Revolution-Who’s Who? Students will complete a Who’s Who? of people who played a role in the American Revolution. They will use notes and class resources, as well as other students, to complete the grid.
Lesson 6	Prelude to Revolution-Vocabulary Students will work with a partner to discuss vocabulary and discover relationships among the words. Students will write the relationships they discover in Inspiration.
Lesson 7	Prelude to Revolution-Action/Reaction Students will complete an action/reaction flow chart in Inspiration on the events leading to the Revolution.
Lesson 8	Prelude to Revolution-First Continental Congress Argument/Support Students will prepare for their simulation of the First Continental Congress by listing arguments in Memo Pad and adding the support needed to defend their arguments.
Lesson 9	Prelude to Revolution-First Continental Congress (Simulation) Students will reenact the First Continental Congress. Students will use their Memo Pad notes to defend their choices.
Lesson 10	Prelude to Revolution-Second Continental Congress Argument/Solution Students will prepare for their simulation of the Second Continental Congress by listing arguments in Memo Pad and adding the support needed to defend their arguments
Lesson 11	Prelude to Revolution-Second Continental Congress (Simulation) Students will reenact the Second Continental Congress. Students will use their Memo Pad notes to defend their choices
Lesson 12	Prelude to Revolution- Declaration of Independence Then and Now Students will do several readings of the Declaration of Independence. They will interpret meaning. Lastly, they will complete a T-Chart that relates concepts of the Declaration to today’s world
Lesson 13	Prelude to Revolution-Vocabulary Review Students will review vocabulary by playing a game. They will be assessed on terms by completing a matching worksheet.
Lesson 14	Prelude to Revolution-Cumulative Project Students will use their notes in Docs to Go from Lesson 4 to create a Power Point, Research Paper, or Oral Presentation synthesizing what they learned in the unit
Lesson 15	Prelude to Revolution-Formal Assessment Students will demonstrate their understanding of the key concepts in the unit, Prelude to Revolution by taking an end of unit test made up of appropriate questions from Harcourt’s United States, 2000 (Chapters 7, 8, and Unit 4) in QuizWiz. Students will answer the extended response question: How did the colonists use conflict and cooperation to change policy? How do we show our displeasure with government policies today?