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Making a Patriot Inquiry: Are Independence, Freedom, and Liberty the Same Thing?

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As part of a study of the American Revolution, class members engage in an inquiry-based lesson that has them watch a scene from the play Slave Spy, examine multiple primary source documents, and then discuss the similarities and differences among the terms independence, slavery, freedom, and liberty.

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CCSS: Adaptable
Concepts
the american revolution, causes of the american revolution, patriots, the loyalists, primary source analysis, primary source images, primary sources, the french and indian war
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Additional Tags
social studies
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Instructional Ideas
  • Post and review the evidence groups have gather in the previous four formative performance tasks
  • Review the characteristics and format of the argument essay before assigning the paper
Classroom Considerations
  • The carefully crafted supporting questions and the formative performance tasks in previous lessons in the series provide the scaffolding necessary to prepare scholars to answer the unit's essential question
Pros
  • The packet includes a summary of the pervious lessons in the series
Cons
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