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: What prompted British General Howe to move his troops to Nova Scotia in March 1776?
2. Citizenship Question: What is one reason colonists came to America? 
   A. education 
   B. better health 
   C. elect a new king 
   D. religious freedom
3. Guided Instruction: The Story of Us: Revolution
4. Reflection Question: ​Who do you think was the most important figure during the American Revolution? Why?