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** About this page ** This page has a number of sections that will help you in your exploration of the American Revolution.

1. Homework 2. Epads 3. Character sketches 4. Primary sources 5. Secondary sources

** 1. Homework **

You and your group mates need to share the workload below. That said, make sure that you are completing //either// all the videos on any given night //or// all the pdfs on any given night. I strongly recommend that you //all// read the entire //Liberty// text.

Take notes as you read the pdfs or watch the videos or explore secondary sources online.

**Wednesday**

Watch the "PBS video 1 of 6"--//or// read //either// "Liberty" //or// "Beginnings to Boston Massacre".

**Thursday**

Read "Declaration of Independence to Treaty of Paris".

You could watch the videos, but you would have to watch "PBS video 2 of 6" and "PBS video 3 of 6" and "PBS video 4 of 6" to cover the same material that the pdfs cover. That would be too much of a commitment if you've got homework in your other classes. My recommendation: read the pdfs and then explore some of the secondary sources. Don't worry about the primary sources. We'll talk about them tomorrow. (And they'll be easier after you've done a bit more research.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">**Friday**

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Read "The Aftermath".

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Again, you could finish all of the videos but that is a lot of homework. I recommend that you //definitely// watch "PBS video 6 of 6" and I would catch up on some of the pdfs and explore the secondary resources.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Remember that your Primary Source Analysis is due on Wednesday. Again, the assignment details are here.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">** 2. Epads **

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<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">** 3. Character sketches **

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Your father is a colonist of British descent who fought in the French and Indian War (or what Europeans called the Seven Years War). At the time of the signing of the Treaty of Paris on February 10, 1763, you are a teenager living in the colonies.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Your characters are very similar in their first journal entries, but by their second journal entries, they have begun to develop into one of the two character types below. The rest is up to you. Is your character male or female? Black or white? Rich or poor?

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">**Patriot** (a.k.a "rebel" or "whig" or "revolutionary" or later, "American") <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">A patriot is an American colonist who rebelled against the British.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">**Loyalist** (a.k.a. "tory") <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">A loyalist is //an American colonist// who remained loyal to the British monarchy during the American Revolutionary War.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Note that although you are each writing your own journals, half of your group must be patriots and half must be loyalists. Moreover, //you must all have the same turning points//.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">** 4. Primary sources **

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Choose one of the //numbered// primary sources below for your analysis. (Assignment is here.)

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">**Images**

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<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">**Documents**

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<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">11. Readable text:

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<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">**Other primary sources of interest--but NOT recommended for analysis**

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">"George Washington" [] "Self Portrait [1777]" [] Reverse side of the two dollar bill [] 1968 6 cent stamp used his "Bunker Hill" painting []

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">"Scene at the Signing of the Constitution of the United States" [1940] [] Also see the key (the who's who) []

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Excerpt of constitution, Jefferson draft []

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">image of George Washington []

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">"The Declaration of Independence" []

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">"The Constitution", the song []

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">** 5. Secondary sources **

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">**Websites**

<span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia,serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">PBS has a great site on the American Revolution. I would start with the "Road to Revolution Game." And note the timeline and the site dedicated to Benjamin Franklin.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">See what life was like during the 18th Century in America.

<span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia,serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"> Explore the databases on the Library Media Center's website. Start with a search on Discovery Streaming for “American Revolution”.

<span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia,serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"> Check out some of the animation here <span style="background-clip: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 10px;">[].

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Read about the lives of early Americans, like Benjamin Franklin, Paul Revere, and Thomas Jefferson.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">**Videos**

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">media type="youtube" key="Kmo9oBJJXr8?version=3" height="360" width="640" <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Liberty: The American Revolution "The Reluctant Revolutionaries" (1 of 6)

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">media type="youtube" key="CNNbShYgSfw?version=3" height="360" width="640" <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Liberty: The American Revolution "Blows Must Decide" (2 of 6)

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">media type="youtube" key="3PwtTKSU9AU?version=3" height="360" width="640" <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Liberty: The American Revolution "The Time's That Try Men's Soul's" (3 of 6)

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">media type="youtube" key="YvzveiGce1s?version=3" height="360" width="640" <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Liberty: The American Revolution "Oh Fatal Ambition" (4 of 6)

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">media type="youtube" key="KMBLebtGm0U?version=3" height="360" width="640" <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Liberty: The American Revolution "The World Turned Upside Down" (5 of 6)

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">media type="youtube" key="xGNciQTDk5M?version=3" height="360" width="640"

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Liberty: The American Revolution "Are We to be a Nation" (6 of 6)