Lesson Overview
This lesson is designed to complement student understanding of the American Revolution. The lesson is designed to be completed by 11th Grade US History students, yet should be able to be utilized (with minor adaption) by middle school students. This lesson exposes students to various sources and documents that expand the student’s understanding of the Revolutionary War in South Carolina. Students make use of skills such as document analysis, information organization, defending a historic argument, presentation, and creation of informational text.
Essential Question
Why do historians choose to emphasize some locations, heroes, and stories over others?
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Other Instructional Materials or Notes:
8, 11
- Tablets – at least one per group
- Projection Board
- Internet (recommended)
- Image Display (SMARTBoard)
Scrap Paper for students
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- 8.2.CO Compare the motives and demographics of loyalists and patriots within South Carolina and the colonies.
- This indicator was developed to encourage inquiry into the economic, political, and social motivations of the patriots and the loyalists in the era of the American Revolution.
- 8.2.CE Explain the economic, political, and social factors surrounding the American Revolution.
- This indicator was developed to encourage inquiry into how the colonies began to unify to create a distinctive American identity over the course of events of the American Revolution.
- 8.2.CX Contextualize the roles of various groups of South Carolinians as the colonies moved toward becoming an independent nation.
- This indicator was developed to encourage inquiry into the motivations of colonists during the American Revolution and the progression of conflict and failed compromise that ultimately led to revolution.
- 8.2.E Utilize a variety of primary and secondary sources to analyze multiple perspectives on the development of democracy in South Carolina and the United States.
- Foundations of American Republicanism
- This indicator was developed to encourage inquiry into a comparison of how the distinct geographic regions of the colonies impacted the early trans-Atlantic economy as well as perspectives on government. This indicator was written to encourage inquiry into how these differences prompted the thirteen colonies to see themselves as exceptionally American by 1754.
- USHC.1.CE Assess the major developments of the American Revolution through significant turning points in the debates over independence and self-government from 1763-1791.
- This indicator was developed to encourage inquiry into the relative causes and effects of the American Revolution through an analysis of the political and social progression of colonial desires for reform to colonial desires for independence. In addition, this indicator encourages inquiry into the impact of early founding documents such as the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation, the Constitution, the Federalist Papers, and the Bill of Rights.
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Log In to View LessonLesson Created By: Anthony Ludwig
Lesson Partners: ETV Education, National Society of Colonial Dames of America in the State of South Carolina , Colonial Charleston, Charleston County School District