Vanlightenment

Students will learn about the French & Indian War through three sources: Benjamin Franklin's Join or Die CartoonAn excerpt from a letter written by George Washington to his mother after the Battle of MonongahelaA comparison of a pre-war and post-war mapEach source includes 3 questions to help guide students as they analyze the sources and their meanings.

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Graphic Organizers can be an essential piece of student understanding. They help visualize information which in turn aids students in processing and retaining it! This is especially important when your students are reading a piece of text on their own and trying to figure out what the author is arguing! This set is intended to help educators point their students toward the best Graphic Organizer to use for a given reading, but they can really be used at any level for any number of things! It als