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Activity Overview: Students examine all of the ways voices and opinions are expressed today in comparison to the ways that existed in 1770 Boston. Before this activity, students should read the background historical overview.
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This unit is part of Gilder Lehrman’s series of Common Core State Standards–based teaching resources. These units were written to enable students to understand, summarize, and analyze original texts of historical significance. The lessons are built around the use of textual and visual evidence and critical thinking skills.
Students will be asked to “read like a detective” and gain a clear understanding of the content of Paul Revere’s print The Bloody Massacre in King Street. Students will analyze the visual components of the image as well as the text at the bottom, draw logical inferences, and demonstrate these skills by writing a succinct summary of the events as de...
Students will be asked to “read like a detective” and gain a clear understanding of the report by Captain Preston, who was in charge of the British troops involved in the Boston Massacre. Students will analyze the text, draw logical inferences, and demonstrate these skills by writing a succinct summary of the events as related in the document.
As class discussion, ask students to describe some of the similarities and differences between the accounts. Which account do they think is most accurate? Why? Why would someone create an account that was not accurate? Which is more compelling evidence: an image or written text? Who was present during the event, Paul Revere, Captain Preston, or bot...
The goals of the lesson are for students to understand the importance contemporaries attached to the event, how the event reflected and shaped colonial resistance to British authority, and how powerful images can focus popular attention and shape political views.
Students read their timelines and highlight three events they feel strongly about that led to the conflict, March 5th, 1770. When they have chosen, students will illustrate what happened based on the evidence in their Open Mind Graphic organizer.
Performance assessments require students to demonstrate what they know and can do. Often expressed as “authentic”–mostly meaning as much like the real world as possible. In this performance task, fifth graders compare three pieces of evidence from a key event in American History. The Paul Revere engraving of the Boston Massacre. (Above.)
Mar 19, 2020 · March 19, 2020 • Updated November 28, 2023. Share to Google Classroom Added by 168 Educators. The Boston Massacre marked the moment when political tensions between British soldiers and American colonists turned deadly.
Mar 5, 2020 · What does this book teach us that's different than other historical accounts of the Boston Massacre? That politics are human, and the things that divide us are maybe up to us to choose.
