Letter from the Philadelphia Convention

Today you will write a letter to your parents explaining that you will be attending the Philadelphia Convention.   You should give three good reasons for "fixing" the Articles of Confederation.  Some very good reasons can be found on pages 230-235 in your textbook.  Make sure to include Shays's Rebellion!

The Articles of Confederation and Shays' Rebellion

Go to the following link to complete today's lesson.  Copy and paste questions to a google doc and share with me.

Daniel Shays Epitaph

Revolutionary War Battlemap

Today you will complete a Revolutionary War Battle map.  Click on the title of today's blog to find a blank map of the colonies.
Instructions:  
1.  Label all of the battles/events on your map
2.  Show which side won the battle
3.  Show the General for each side of the battle.


All of the following events should be on your map:
Lexington and Concord
Bunker Hill
Battle of Long Island
Battle of Trenton
Battle of Princeton
Battle of Saratoga
Battle of Brandywine Creek
Valley Forge
Battle of Vincennes
Battle of Yorktown

The Battle of Bunker Hill

Today students place themselves in the shoes of British Governor/General Thomas Gage. 

Having failed to take colonial stores of weapons in Concord, losing 250 of the worlds finest troops to a bunch of pitch-fork wielding farmers, and speeding up the process of rebellion, General Gage found himself surrounded in Boston by colonial militia.  In an attempt to save face and keep Parliament from replacing him with General Howe, Gage makes an attempt to take Bunker Hill through brute force- yet another disaster! 
Your job today:  draw the map of Boston and the surrounding area, then create a battle plan for taking the hill successfully.  Good luck!  I hope you are smarter than General Gage...

Revolutionary War Newspaper

Follow the link to the Revolutionary War Newspaper assignment.  Follow the directions, it will be on a microsoft word document.  There are several ways you can complete this assignment and share with me:
1.  Complete the microsoft word document, save it to your file folder, and send it to me as an email attachment.
2.  Complete the microsoft word document then print it- place it in the box.
3.  Copy and paste the word document to a Google document (remember to work in Google Chrome), complete it and share with me.
4.  Print the microsoft word document, fill it out with pencil or pen, paste pictures on it- place in the box.
Please do not copy and paste articles.  You must include an annotated bibliography with your newspaper.  Take notes, summarize, then write the articles using your own words.   This project is due on Monday at the beginning of the period.  It must be complete, you will not work on it in class.

Example of an annotated bibliography for an internet source:
Rosenberg, Jennifer. [history1900s.guide@about.com]. "A History of the Olympics." In "20th Century History Site at About.com" [http://history1900s.about.com/library/weekly/aa081000a.htm]. January 3, 2001.

This web site offers an overview of Olympic history and specific information about each Olympic Games. This site was important to my paper because I learned about the role Pierre de Coubertin played in restarting the Olympic Games.

Chapter 7 Vocabulary

Chapter 7 vocabulary sections 1 and 2 in the textbook will be due on Wednesday.  You may have today in class to work and what you do not finish will be homework. 
By the way if you are not in class, feel free to Google any of the people, places, words and terms.  Just be sure that your definitions are in the context of the American Revolution.  For example, you would not want to write that George Washington was the first President of the United States, because he was not the President during the American Revolution!
If you write the definitions on a Google doc you can share your definitions with me and be finished with the assignment. 

Section 1:  pages 184-188
minutemen
seige
First Continental Congress
Thomas Gage
redcoats
Second Continental Congress
Continental Army
George Washington
Olive Branch Petition
Battle of Bunker Hill

Section 2:  pg 190-193
unalienable rights
Common Sense
Thomas Jefferson
Declaration of Independence
Patriots
Loyalists
Abigail Adams

Causes of the American Revolution Test

If you are at home today or missed class for another reason, you may click on the title of today's blog entry to take an online test.  Just type in your first and last name- the secret word is patriot!  Sshhh, don't tell anyone...

This Week

We will continue working on the board games Monday and Tuesday.  By Wednesday, we will be playing all of the board games you have created!  If you have been absent or just can't seem to remember the rules regarding the board game, check out last Thursday's blog (Nov. 27th).  On Thursday, we will have a test over Causes of the American Revolution.