I had a very difficult time choosing a topic for my lesson. Fourth Grade does not cover the American Revolution, as it is in the third and fifth grade curriculum frameworks. In addition, our fourth grade team splits up the science and social studies units. I teach the midwest and the west. For this reason, I decided to teach my lesson as part of my English Language Arts curriculum.
I chose the piece of the course that most interested me, the Battle on Lexington Green, and decided to focus on point of view. I went back and forth many times on how exactly to do this. My original plan was to compare the 1776 depositions to those given in 1824. When I looked at the 1824 depositions again, I decided that they may confuse students instead of helping them create an informed opinion of what happened on Lexington Green on April 19, 1776. As the person who reviewed my proposal pointed out, by 1824 there was a rivalry between Lexington and Concord over where the first battle of the Revolutionary War took place. I believe that this added piece to the 1824 accounts would make the lesson too confusing for students.
My final decision was to have students focus on four primary resources. These were to be the accounts of two British Regulars and two Lexington Militiamen. The next task was to find these accounts.
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