Let’s take a minute to review…

1. Today we will review our knowledge and readiness for testing over the era of the American Revolution using writing kernels, a classification activity, games, and practice STAAR questions.

2. Let’s take a minute to review… http://animoto.com/play/W6tsCTqcY131ETQGNs1f8A http://animoto.com/play/lhSIGNP8b1aYYQMnVJ1i0w

3. Read “Important Ideas about the American Revolution Complete the sentence kernels on the right on your paper. Be ready to share with class. After the French & Indian War … Colonists objected to … The British … The colonists … The Declaration of Independence … American troops … The war … Writing for Understanding

4. Look at the 3 classifications of people on the paper DELEGATES ORDINARY SOLDIERS PEOPLE Organize the people on the cards according to their role in the American Revolution Now exchange cards and repeat the process. (George Washington can fit in two places  ) Who’s Who in the American Revolution

5. Who Did What in American History? The People Who Made a Nation!

6. #1 Commander of the Continental Army and 1st US President? Benedict Arnold Thomas Jefferson A: B: Benjamin Franklin George Washington C: D:

7. D: George Washington

8. #2 Law that banned colonists from moving west Of the Appalachians? Quartering Act Proclamation Act of 1763 A: B: Intolerable Acts Treaty of Paris of 1763 C: D:

9. B: The Proclamation of 1763

10. #3 Delegates to 2nd Continental Congress, Declaration Committee members, Treaty of Paris delegates? Ben Franklin & Thomas Jefferson George Washington & John Adams A: B: John Adams & Ben Franklin C: D: Thomas Jefferson and Patrick Henry

11. C: John Adams & Ben Franklin

12. #4 Wrote plays in support of independence Abigail Adams Phillis Wheatley A: B: Thomas Paine Mercy Otis Warren C: D:

13. D: Mercy Otis Warren

14. #5 Helper in American Revolution! Lord North The Marquis de Lafayette A: B: Nat Turner Henry Clay C: D:

15. B: The Marquis de Layfayette

16. #6 One of five to die in the Boston Massacre Crispus Attucks James Armistead A: B: Haym Salomon Wentworth Cheswell C: D:

17. A: Crispus Attucks

18. #7 Wrote Common Sense and an American Crisis? Thomas Jefferson Thomas Paine A: B: John Adams Mercy Otis Warren C: D:

19. B: Thomas Paine

20. #8 Both spies, one financed the Continental Congress, The other helped bring about victory at Yorktown Haym Salomon & James Armistead James Armistead & Wentworth Cheswell A: B: Benedict Arnold & Haym Salomon Benedict Arnold & Lafayette C: D:

21. A: Haym Salomon & James Armistead

22. #9 Turning point battle of the Revolution Lexington & Concord Antietam A: B: Saratoga Gettysburg C: D:

23. C: Saratoga

24. #10 Governor of New Spain who sent food, Guns, uniforms, and supplies to Continental Army. Marquis de Lafayette Bernardo de Galvez A: B: Santa Anna Aaron Burr C: D:

25. B: Bernardo de Galvez

26. #11 Father of the US Navy, attacked British mainland, Said, “I have not yet begun to fight.” John Adams George Washington A: B: John Paul Jones Wentworth Cheswell C: D:

27. D: John Paul Jones

28. #12 James Armistead Wentworth Cheswell Crispus Attucks Phillis Wheatley African American Patriots Abolitionists during the Revolution A: B: American Loyalists Soldiers in the Continental Army C: D:

29. A: African American Patriots

30. #13 Thomas Jefferson Benjamin Franklin John Adams Members of the Continental Army Delegates to the 2nd Continental Congress A: B: Presidents of the USA Writers of the US Constitution C: D:

31. B: Delegates to the 2nd Continental Congress

32. #14 One of the first supporters of equal rights for Women that we have record of – in letters to Her husband during 2nd Continental Congress Abigail Adams Mercy Otis Warren A: B: Martha Jefferson Elizabeth Cady Stanton C: D:

33. D: Abigail Adams

34. #15 Who wrote the words… “We hold these truths to be Self evident, that all men are created equal, that they are Endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights, That among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit Of happiness.” Thomas Jefferson Abraham Lincoln A: B: Thomas Paine Henry David Thoreau C: D:

35. A: Thomas Jefferson

36. So Who Did You Know? Shine on the STAAR

37. Practice STAAR QuestionsExit Ticket • Which result of the French and Indian War contributed to the American Revolution? • A.    The British lost control of Montreal and all of Canada. • B.    The British decided to make the colonists help repay their war debt. • C.    Native American Indians were sold lands east of the Appalachian Mountains. • D.    French colonies expanded along the Atlantic seacoast. • What was the British government’s aim in passing the Stamp Act of 1765? •   to unite the colonists against the Spanish • B.    to lower the cost of tea in the British colonies • C.    to raise money to help pay the cost of British troops in North America • D.    to reduce conflicts between the colonists and American Indians • Which statement is most consistent with the views of Samuel Adams? • A.    Taxation without representation is tyranny. • B.    Colonists should remain loyal to Great Britain. • C.    King George III may be a tyrant, but the British Parliament is fair. • Americans should protest but not declare independence. • Which event demonstrated that citizens sometimes disobey government policies when they feel they are being treated unfairly? • Boston Tea Party • B.    Ratification of the Constitution • C.    Boston Massacre • D.    Valley Forge • “I long to hear that you have declared an independency; and by the way in the new code of laws which I suppose it will be necessary for you to make, I desire you would remember the ladies, and be more generous and favorable to them than your ancestors.” • Whose views are represented in the passage? • A.    Phillis Wheatly • B.    Mercy Otis Warren • C.    Elizabeth Cady Stanton • Abigail Adams