Week of 11/30/2020

 11/30 - Chapter 7 Section 1 The Early Years of the Revolutionary War

Section 1 Objectives

1. To describe colonial opinions on American independence

2. To explain the importance of the mid-Atlantic coastal cities

3. To analyze early British strategy

4. To summarize the causes and effects of the Battle of Saratoga

Group students – read section, take notes

12/1 - Chapter 7 Section 2 The War Expands

Section 2 Objectives

1. To explain why and how Europeans helped the United States

2. To gain insight into the hardships and sacrifices of the revolutionary forces

3. To describe the war on the frontier

4. To summarize important battles at sea

Group students – read section, taking notes

12/2 - Test Taking strategies and how to inform our note taking strategies.

12/3 - Chapter 7 Section 3 The Path to Victory

Section 3 Objectives

1. To explain why the war shifted to the South

2. To analyze fighting methods and their effects

3. To summarize events that led to the war’s end

Group students, read section, take notes 

12/4 - Chapter 7 Section 4 The Legacy of the War

Section 4 Objectives

1. To evaluate the strengths of the American army in comparison with the British army

2. To summarize the 1783 Treaty of Paris

3. To analyze the costs of the Revolution

4. To identify challenges that the new United States faced after the war

Group students, read section, take notes

Week of 11/23/2020

11/23/2020 - Chapter 6 Review

11/24/2020 - Chapter 6 Test

11/25 - No School

11/26 - Thanksgiving Day

11/27 - No School

Week of 11/16/2020

 11/16 - Chapter 6, Section 1, Tighter British Control 

Section 1 Objectives

1. To identify why the Proclamation of 1763 angered so many colonists

2. To describe the debate over taxes and troops in the colonies

3. To explain the Stamp Act

4. To examine how the colonists forced Britain to repeal the Stamp Act

11/17 - Review Section 1 reading, notes and section assessment.

            Chapter 6, Section 2, Colonial Resistance Grows

Section 2 Objectives

1. To explain the Townshend Acts

2. To describe why and how the colonists protested the Townshend Acts

3. To explain the Boston Massacre

4. To summarize the Tea Act and the Boston Tea Party

11/18 - Review Section 2, reading, notes and section assessment.

            Chapter 6, Section 3 

Section 3 Objectives

1. To describe the Intolerable Acts

2. To explain how the colonies wavered between war and peace

3. To profile the Midnight Ride

          4. To describe the battles of Lexington and Concord

11/19 - Finish Chaper 6, Section 3

11/20 - Chapter 6, Section 4, Declaring Independence

            Section 4 Objectives             1. To describe the early skirmishes between the Continental and British armies             2. To profile British and American responses to the deepening conflict             3. To summarize Thomas Paine’s Common Sense             4. To explain how colonial leaders officially declared their independence from                     Britain

Week of 11/9/2020

 This week we will be working on our next research project, a 5 paragraph Informative Essay in conjunction ELA. 

Your assignment can be found in your ELA Google Classroom period for whatever period you have ELA.

Week of 11/2/2020

 11/2 - Chapter 5 Section 2

Section 2 Objectives

1. To identify the rights that colonists expected as English subjects

2. To explain why colonies challenged the rule of Governor Edmund Andros

3. To evaluate how England’s Glorious Revolution affected the colonies

4. To explain the importance of the Zenger trial verdict

11/3 - Chapter 5 Section 3 ‘The French and Indian War’

Section 3 Objectives

1. To identify French colonial claims

2. To trace the French and Indian War

3. To explain how the British won the French and Indian War

4. To evaluate the results of the war

Cause and Effect of the War

11/4 - French and Indian War - The Last of the Mohicans 

11/5 - EARLY OUT

Chapter 5 Review

11/6 - Chapter 5 Test