Lesson Plan Format: Day 7

Grade: 3__

Unit: The American Revolution in Massachusetts

Goal: Events and people in Massachusetts’s history played a major part in the development of Massachusetts.

Essential Question:

What people and events in Massachusetts’s history played a part in the onset of the Revolutionary War?

Development and Selection of Activities and Resources:

Ø Review key points from Boston Tea Party

Ø Journal: What would you do if the Governor of Massachusetts shut off the major road in your town because your town decided not to pay taxes on a particular product?

Ø Consequences of Boston Tea Party: Coercive Act/Intolerable Act

Ø First Continental Congress (write about this in Diary)

Content:

Ø Coercive Acts/Intolerable Act: March 1774. English Parliament decides to shut down the port of Boston to all commercial shipping. As an end result, Bostonians decide to boycott British imports (May 1774). General Thomas Gage becomes Royal governor, replacing Thomas Hutchinson. Boston under British rule.

Ø Activity for the First Continental Congress: answer questions in diary. Can go to the following: http://www.kidport.com/RefLib/UsaHistory/AmericanRevolution/FirstCongress.htm

Ø This was the beginning of the end of British rule; the beginning of the American Revolution!

Curriculum Frameworks:

New England and Massachusetts: Standard 3.5

Assignment: none

How will the understanding of the essential question be assessed?

Ø A booklet/diary will be assessed (ongoing)