Learning Goals
Students will be able to investigate primary and secondary sources about the American Revolution to distinguish evidence, perspective, and reliability.
Students will be able to analyze the causes of the American Revolution, including the Stamp Act, Townshend Acts, tea taxes, and Coercive Acts, to explain why colonists protested.
Students will be able to summarize key events and contexts in Chains and connect Isabel's experiences to the realities of revolution and resistance.
Students will be able to explain the significance of the Continental Congresses and the Committees of Correspondence in organizing revolutionary action.
Students will be able to interpret the Declaration of Independence to identify key political concepts and the reasons colonists declared independence.
Students will be able to compare historical and modern revolutions to identify shared patterns of grievance, resistance, and social change.
Students will be able to craft an opinion argument about how revolutions change society using evidence from history, Chains, and modern examples.
Products
Revolution Research Notebook and Evidence-Based Opinion Essay
Each student creates a research notebook with annotated sources, notes from Chains, and a simple comparison of one historical and one modern revolution. Students then write an opinion essay explaining how revolutions can reshape society, supported by evidence from texts and sources.
Legacy of Change Exhibition Panel and Collaborative Prototype Podcast
Teams synthesize individual research into a shared problem statement about revolution and design a high-fidelity exhibition panel plus a short podcast script or audio prototype for the Art Festival. The team solution must show how user needs and historical evidence shaped the final message and design.
No rubric has been generated yet.