Showing posts with label Revolutionary War. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Revolutionary War. Show all posts

Wednesday, December 9, 2015

US History: The American Revolution

Hello fellow Americans!

Here is today's lesson. Feel free to watch, pause, rewind, pause again, as you complete your 5Ws Summary!



When?
 Where?
Who?
What?
Why?

Use the 5 W's to complete your notebook page. Then, combine all of the info into a short summary (not more than a few sentences)!


When you are done, edit your summary. Type it for your notebook page and then copy/paste it into the Google Form here


Here is my favorite video summary of the Revolutionary War...




Rebels with a Cause

Click here to find out how an untested army of American minute men were able to defeat a British superpower during the American Revolution.

Wednesday, December 2, 2015

US History: Road to the Revolution

Hey kids! Nice job in class today! As we navigate through our US History unit, we'll continue to work on summarizing.

Speaking of summarizing, here is a summary of what we've learned so far...


 
Oh, how I love Schoolhouse Rock! Splishin' and a splashin'...


One nifty template to use when summarizing a story or historical event like The Road to the Revolution is a SWBST Chart.

Somebody...
Wanted...
But...
So...
Then...


The SWBST method will keep your summary concise and to the point!

Take the events that led to the Revolutionary, for example... 

"Somebody" could be the colonists. 
What did the colonists want?
But...
So...
Then...

Get it?


Use information in the lesson below to summarize the events that led to the Revolutionary War. Combine all of the information you listed and create a paragraph. Print your edited paragraph and glue it onto the notebook page above. Then, copy and paste your edited summary into this Google Form.