THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
Grade: 4 -7
UNIT: Colonial America and the American Revolution
STANDARDS (NYC Social Studies Scope & Sequence 2008): Results of the American
Revolution 1.3d, Development of national identity 1.2b, Demographic shifts 3.1c, Effect on Native Americans, Africans, women, and other groups 1.4b
INSTRUCTIONAL OBJECTIVES: Students will be able to identify shifts in culture with regard to three specific ethnic and gender groups.
AIM: How did the lives of Native Americans, Africans and women change or persist after the American Revolutionary War ended?
MATERIALS: Primary resource pictures of the three groups of the time period, notebooks, graphic organizer, pencils.
MOTIVATION: Gallery Walk


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