Lesson Plan The French and Indian War Government and Civics 9, 10, 11, 12, 13+ Unit Objective This unit is part of Gilder Lehrman’s series of Common Core State Standards–based teaching resources. These units were developed to enable students to understand, summarize, and analyze original texts of historical...
Lesson Plan The Evolution of the US Constitution: The Preambles to the Articles of Confederation and the US Constitution Government and Civics 9, 10, 11, 12, 13+ Objective This lesson plan is part of Gilder Lehrman’s series of Common Core State Standards–based teaching resources. These resources were developed to enable students to understand, summarize, and analyze original texts of...
Lesson Plan "You Drop A Petal in the Water, and It Has a Ripple Effect": The Disability Rights Movement, 1950-1990 Government and Civics 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 Click here to download this four-lesson unit.
Guided Readings Guided Readings: Impact of the Revolution on Women and African Americans Government and Civics 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 Reading 1 I desire you would Remember the Ladies, and be more generous and favorable to them than your ancestors. Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the Husbands. Remember all Men would be tyrants if they could. If...
Guided Readings Guided Readings: Toward Revolution Economics, Government and Civics 9, 10, 11, 12 Reading 1 For fire and water are not more heterogeneous than the different colonies in North America. Nothing can exceed the jealousy and emulation which they possess in regard to each other. . . . In short . . . were they left to...
Guided Readings Guided Readings: Slavery and Abolition World History 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13+ Sid Lapidus Collection: Liberty and the American Revolution Introduction The campaign to end slavery was a prolonged struggle. In England and in America in the eighteenth century, some authors such as Daniel Defoe and Samuel Johnson...
Lesson Plan George Washington’s Rules of Civility 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13+ Introduction When George Washington was a teenager, he wanted to make a good impression on his elders. Good manners were important to him. He made sure that he knew how by copying Rules of Civility from a French rulebook in his own...
Lesson Plan Revolutionary Propaganda: Persuasion and Colonial Support Government and Civics, Literature 9, 10, 11, 12, 13+ Background Many students misconstrue the American Revolution as a period of unanimous support for independence from Great Britain. However, colonists generally considered themselves loyal British citizens, asserting rightful...
Lesson Plan The Boston Massacre Art 9, 10, 11, 12 Introduction In this lesson, students will be asked to learn the disputed and agreed-upon facts of the Boston Massacre in small groups and then discuss them and propose a website definition of the Massacre as a class. This lesson...