Lesson Plan

National Humanities Center: America in Class: American Revolution as Civil War

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A lesson where students examine the journal of a young Scottish woman, Janet Schaw, visiting North Carolina in 1775. She writes of her experiences observing the tensions and rivalries in the Cape Fear River area that pitted neighbors against neighbors during the American Revolution. Students are confronted with the unsanitized reality of the American Revolution as a civil war.

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  • Knovation Readability Score: 3 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)
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