Foundations of Revolution

We'll begin by setting some context for our continued look at notions of liberty by defining some key terms that are important to understand as we head in to the revolutionary period in American History. We'll use this Crash Course on the Seven Years War to help us do that.

Next, we'll return to our groups and share the work that we did on the chart with the documents from class yesterday.  The goal will be to ensure that everyone understands the main idea of each document. Then, as a group, you'll discuss the questions in Part II of your charts about making connections. One person in your group will take notes as you discuss.

Then, we'll come back together and in order to set some additional context for our work, we'll take notes while we watch the following Crash Course on the prelude to the American Revolution.

We'll read the following documents out loud and add individual notes to our chart as we consider what they each say: Chief Logan's Lament (AR p. 30), A Slave's Appeal to the Royal Governor of Massachusetts (AR p.31), Abigail Adams Correspondence with John (AR p. 55).

We'll move to a look at the writings by Thomas Paine and Patrick Henry, that you read for today. In order to understand what they were saying, each person will select a quotation from one of these documents, and then creatively read them aloud in a circle.

Following this activity, we'll do a last piece of writing in our notebooks. First, responding to Paine and Henry, identifying the ideas that link them together. Second, we'll reflect back to the 9 documents that we've read over the last three days and identify the one that is most memorable and resonating to us, trying to describe why that is so.