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Grade 7 ESS

Grade 7 ESS. Week 4: Feb 16th to Feb 20th. ESS Materials. ALWAYS BE PREPARED FOR CLASS BEFORE THE BELL  Text book Handouts/packets Pencil or Blue/Black erasable ink pen *If you do not have one of these items 10% of your daily class participation grade will be subtracted from your grade.

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Grade 7 ESS

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  1. Grade 7 ESS Week 4: Feb 16th to Feb 20th

  2. ESS Materials ALWAYS BE PREPARED FOR CLASS BEFORE THE BELL  Text book Handouts/packets Pencil or Blue/Black erasable ink pen *If you do not have one of these items 10% of your daily class participation grade will be subtracted from your grade.

  3. Day 1 Overview • Chapter 6: Section 2 Catch up and Review • Chapter 6: Section 3. Discuss Revolutionary War: the Townshend Acts, the Road to Lexington and Concord, and ways that colonists protested the British laws. • Supplementary reading and educational films. • Do now: Review key terms from previous sections. • Write on sheet: 5 key terms from previous class and define 3.

  4. The Road to War • The Colonies and Britain grew apart due to… • What are some ways in which colonists defied Parliament? • Patrick Henry • Boycott • Sons of Liberty • Townshend Acts: placed duties on numerous imports to the colonies such as glass paper, paint, lead, and tea. • Colonist respond in anger and protest. • Daughters of liberty, boycott, ends in repeal • Review (Q & A) • What are some ways in which the British tightened their control on the colonies? • Why were the colonists threatened by Parliament’s new laws? (p 157)

  5. “No taxation w/o representation!” New common enemy: British, colonies unite under committees of correspondence Boston Tea Party: Dec 16, 1773

  6. Section 3 Preview Handout page 41-42 preview and begin. Q & A Have a good day! 

  7. Day 2 Overview • Do Now: Answer these questions: • 1. Why did colonists oppose the Townshend Acts? • 2. What prompted the Boston Tea party? • 3.Who was Crispus Attucks? • Discuss the Revolutionary War: Chapter 6/Sec 3. Americans decided to declare their independence from Britain. • Supplementary reading and “Liberty Kids”.

  8. Intolerable Acts • Colonial rights were threatened by the Intolerable Acts. • Laws to punish the MA colony (p 170). • Colonist respond by voting to ban all trade with Britain and formed the First Continental Congress. • Parliament stood it’s ground/made restrictions tighter and sent more troops to the colonies. (p. 172) • Colonist prepared for war: both sides spied on each other. • Gage (British) ordered troops to arrest Adams and Hancock in Lexington and destroy colonial supplies in Concord.

  9. Loyalist VS. Patriots • Sons of Liberty: Paul Revere and William Dawes alerted the other cities using a secret signal system. “midnight ride” • Lexington and Concord • April 19, 1775 British troops marched onto Lexington against 70 colonial troops. • “The shot heard ‘round the world” (p 174).

  10. Wrap-Up What rights were threatened by the Intolerable Acts? Who were the minute men? Why did the fighting begin at Lexington?

  11. Liberty Kids “The Shot Heard ‘Round the World” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PxtQXUnOdVA

  12. Day 3 Overview Do now: define key terms: Minutemen, First Continental Congress, Loyalists, Patriots, Paul Revere. Discuss the Intolerable Acts and the first battles of Lexington and Concord. (pg 41-42) Supplementary Reading “Paul Revere’s Ride” Turn in all homework from this week or last (final day for last weeks homework). “Liberty Kids”

  13. Declaring Independence March 19, 2014 Do Now: Define Continental Army, Thomas Jefferson, Declaration of Independence, and siege. Chapt 6 Section 4: hand out page 43-44 Textbook pg: 177- Q & A Homework

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