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 key military and political turning points of the American Revolution.

Critical Vocabulary: Second Continental Congress, Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, Continental Army, Olive Branch Petition, Battle of Bunker Hill, Loyalists, Patriots, Common Sense, Declaration of Independence, General William Howe, Battle of Long Island, The American Crisis, New Jersey Campaign, General John Burgoyne, Battle of Saratoga, Valley Forge, Baron von Steuben, General Charles Cornwallis, General Benedict Arnold, Battle of Yorktown, Peace of Paris

Today's Agenda:

1. Background Question: Create your Weebly site using the directions on the board.
   
2. Guided Instruction: The American Revolution
3. Reflection Question: Were the colonists justified in declaring independence in July 1776? Explain.