Lesson Plan : Pontiac Alternative Learning Ctr
Teacher Name: | Maurice Skelton |
Grade: | Grade 11-12 |
Subject: | Social Studies |
Topic: | The Road to Revolution |
Content: | As the increasingly independent-minded English colonists rebelled against Great Britain, the two sides moved closer to war. Salutary neglect, militia, direct tax, boycott, minutemen |
Goals: | For students to understand and appreciate the struggle the colonists had against the British in the formation of the United States of America. Students will know what the The Albany Plan, Treaty of Paris, 1763, the Boston Massacre and Boston Tea Party, Lexington and Concord, the Battle of Bunker Hill, and the Second Continental Congress |
Objectives: | -Explain the interests of both the British and the colonists between 1763 and the beginning of the Revolution. -Discuss the events that led colonists to armed resistance to British control over the colonies. |
Materials: | Copies from textbook |
Introduction: | During most of the colonial era, the British government followed a policy of salutary neglect, or non-interference, which allowed America's colonists to do as they wished. Britain, however, gradually tightened its control of the colonists' foreign trade in order to increase revenue. From the British point of view the colonies existed to supply raw materials and to provide markets for the British goods. |
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Practice: | Select students to debate the topic "Americans should buy only American-made goods." Then ask them to suggest what parallels exist between the "Buy American" campaign of recent years and British mercantile policies in the colonies. |
Accommodations: | Newspaper Articles on current events related to American Government. Political Science questions from GED practice booklet |
Checking For Understanding: | Definitions for Chapter 2 terms are answered in complete sentences including the section 1 assessment questions and critical thinking sections. |
Closure: | On May 10, 1775, a Second Continental Congress met in Philadelphia. The Congress assumed the powers of a central government and took steps to conduct the war that had, in fact, begun at Lexington. The Congress voted to ask the colonies for supplies and troops |
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