Reviewing Lessons

Once choosing a topic, finding appropriate lessons was fairly easy.  I started with the Honored Places binder that we received from the National Parks Service.  This contained a unit on the American Revolution. This can also be found at: National Parks Service Teacher's Guide to the American Revolution.  Though it did not completely fit my purpose, I took many ideas from Lesson One, Activity Four.  This had students examining first hand accounts of events and comparing them to the Amos Doolittle Prints.  I knew that I wanted to work with Doolittle Print, Plate 1 which shows the Battle on Lexington Green.

I was also considering using some of the first had accounts found in this lesson.  I eventually ended up with too many accounts and decided not to use those found in this lesson.

My lesson ended up as a combination of my own ideas, pieces from the Honored Places binder, and Lexington and Concord: A Legacy-of-Conflict.  I decided to use the "Order Given to Lt. Colonel Francis Smith From Thomas Gage" on page seven as students first exposure to a primary source in this lesson.  It will be used on day 1, while students are building their background knowledge in preparation for the core activities. I also modified the worksheets found on pages 8-11 of this document.