Books
As the title suggests, this book provides an hour-by-hour account of the events surrounding April 19, 1775. This provides background information for the teacher. Excerpts from this book were read to students. Other parts were summarized. This book helped students understand the preparations made on both sides, with a focus on colonists preparations.
Fischer, David Hackett. (1994). Paul Revere's Ride.
New York, NY: Oxford University Press, Inc.
This book provides the teacher a great deal of background information on the events leading up the the Revolutionary War. Excerpts from pages 113-118 and 123-128 were read to students in order to help them understand what it was like for a British Regular on the evening of April 18th and the morning of April 19th 1775.
McCullough, David. (2007). 1776: The Illustrated Edition. New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, Inc.
This book provides the teacher with background information on the American Revolution and the events leading up to it. The Illustrated Edition includes images and replicas of primary source documents.
Online Resources
Lexington and Concord: A Legacy of Conflict. National Parks Service. US Department of the Interior. Minuteman National Historic Park.
This lesson plan takes students through the events of April 19, 1775. Primary resources are used as students study the point of view of different individuals that witnessed the events of April 19th. Pieces of this Lesson Plan were adapted and used in the lesson plan that I developed.
The Waltham National Archives site provides links to important documents in US history as well as a variety of research tools.
The National Archives Digital Vaults
This tool allows the researcher to find documents around a certain event by using tags that link related documents together. Students were given a demonstration on how this tool works.
Revolutionary Teaching Resources. National Park Service. US Department of the Interior. Revolutionary Learning.
In Lesson One, Activity Four, students studied the Doolittle Prints along with first hand accounts of the events of April 19, 1775. Students were asked to match the account with the correct Doolittle Print. This lesson served as inspiration for my lesson.
