Today's Agenda

Content Standards:
Students will analyze how history is a series of connected events shaped by multiple cause and effect relationships, tying past to present.
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Learning Target:
I can summarize the social, political, and economic factors that drove the American colonies to independence. 

Critical Vocabulary: King George III, Albany Plan of Union, Treaty of Paris, Proclamation of 1763, Writs of Assistance, Sugar Act, Stamp Act, Quartering Act, Stamp Act Congress, Sons of Liberty, Declaratory Act, Townshend Acts, Circular Letter, Boston Massacre, Captain Thomas Preston, Crispus Attucks, Gaspee, British East India Tea Company, Tea Act, Boston Tea Party, Coercive Acts, Quebec Act, Intolerable Acts, First Continental Congress, Second Continental Congress, Lexington and Concord, Continental Army, George Washington, Olive Branch Petition, Hessian, Thomas Paine, Common Sense, Thomas Jefferson
 
Today's Agenda:

1. Background Question: Why did the Albany Plan of Union fail? What does that tell us about the colonies in 1754?
2. Citizenship Question: What did Martin Luther King, Jr. do? 
   A. fought for civil rights 
   B. became the first black U.S. Senator 
   C. established the Harvard Law School 
   D. ran for President of the United States
3. Individual Learning: Color and label the map of North America in 1763.
4. Guided Instruction: The French & Indian War​
5. Guided Instruction:  The Story of Us: Rebels
6. Reflection Question:  To what degree did the French and Indian War move the colonists closer to revolution? Explain.

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Homework: Revolutionary America Reading