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, Boston Massacre, Captain Thomas Preston, Crispus Attucks, Tea Act, Boston Tea Party, Intolerable Acts, First Continental Congress, Second Continental Congress, Lexington and Concord, Continental Army, George Washington,Thomas Paine, Common Sense, Thomas Jefferson

Today's Agenda:

1. Background Question: What the the three parts of the Declaration of Independence?
2. Collaborative Learning: The Declaration of Independence Activity
3. Collaborative Learning: The Founding Fathers Foldables and Information
4. Reflection Question: Using what you learned from the Activity, summarize the causes of the American Revolution. 

Homework: 
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Tentative Test Date: September 8