Mentor Memorial Middle School 8th Grade American Studies
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  • Unit 1 - Intro to U.S. Government
  • Unit 2 - Colonization to Independence
    • Unit 2B - The 13 Colonies
  • Unit 3 - Causes of the American Revolution
  • Unit 4 - 1776 to 1783
  • Unit 5 - The Critical Period
  • Unit 6 - Launching A Nation
  • Unit 7 - Westward Expansion
  • Unit 8 - Reform Movements
  • Unit 9 - Causes of the Civil War
  • Unit 10 - The American Civil War
  • Unit 11 - Reconstruction
  • Unit 12 - Personal Finance & Economics

"1776 - 1783"

Unit 4 Resources & Handouts:
- King George Give Us A Break - Background Reading
 
- Who Are They?  - Colonial Perspectives of the Era

- The Great Awakening & The Enlightenment:
   Movements That Helped Shape A Revolution


- The Great Awakening & The Enlightenment - GUIDED NOTES
- Similarities & Differences of the Great Awakening AND The Enlightenment
- Influences on the American Revolution & the Declaration of Independence

-The First Continental Congress Guided Reading Organizer

-The Shot Heard 'Round The World PAGE1
                                                                            PAGE 2
- The Shot Heard 'Round The World - SMART Lesson


-Lexington & Concord Primary Source Activity PAGE 1
                                                                                                    PAGE 2
- The Second Continental Congress

- Why Were There TWO Continental Congresses?

- Advantages & Disadvantages of the Colonists AND British 
At The Start Of The American Revolution

- Text-Based Worksheet:  The Early Years of the War, Parts 1 & 2

- Common Sense - A Summary of Thomas Paine's Influence on American Independence
- Video:  What Was Common Sense?

- The "Break Up Letter"
- The Declaration of Independence - An Explanation

- American Revolution Plot Diagram Activity
- Plot Diagram Events List

GOOD Links for the American Revolution Plot Diagram Activity
- ushistory.org
- socialstudiesforkids.com
- revolutionary-war.net

- A VERY THOROUGH & EXTREMELY DETAILED SUMMARY OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION (A.P. Notes)


American Revolution History Book Project

- Expectations
- Events 

- Rubric

- The End of the American Revolution - The Treaty of Paris of 1783


Battlefield Maps

-Saratoga
-Yorktown
UNIT 4 (The American Revolution) PRACTICE ASSESSMENT

Crash Course U.S History - Who Won The American Revolution?
Liberty's Kids Videos (on Youtube)


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