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 discuss the ideas of the Enlightenment and the Great Awakening, & I can evaluate the extent to which each influenced the development of the American identity.

Critical Vocabulary: Enlightenment, Benjamin Franklin, Great Awakening, Jonathan Edwards, George Whitefield, “Old Lights,” “New Lights”

Today's Agenda:

1. Background Question: Create Trading Cards for Jonathan Edwards and Benjamin Franklin.
2. Citizenship Question: Who was the first President of the United States? 
   A. John Hancock 
   B. James Madison 
   C. Benjamin Franklin 
   D. George Washington
3. Guided Instruction: Revolutionary Thought
4. Reflection Question: What characteristics make up the American identity in the 17th and 18th centuries? Choose 3 and explain each.

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Homework: Revolutionary America Reading