12/4/13

We began class today with the video "The Story of Us" about the first part of the Revolutionary War.

The Story of Us- watch up until minute 30:40

Next, I distributed the a project.  Students will create a timeline of the major events in the war.  They will summarize the major events in 160 characters or less including spaces and punctuation (same as a text message).  They will then take those events and plot them onto their timelines.

American Revolution Timeline

pages 176-181
193-199
200-205
206-210 

Homework is:  Look at the instructions for the "American Revolution Timeline."  Students need to write brief summaries of two events.  They need to make sure their summaries are under 160 characters.  Abbreviations are acceptable.  They can use last night's homework as a resource for information, or the textbook pages linked to the blog.