Revolutionary tea parties and the reasons for revolution
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A lesson plan for Grade 8 English Language Arts and Social Studies
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- 8
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- National Endowment for the Humanities
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This EDSITEment lesson contains five activities for students exploring the context and significance of the Boston Tea Party of 1774. The activities involve a study of the “tea parties” staged in other colonial cities, analysis of the colonists' key objections to the Tea Act, a close study of several primary sources, and the creation of a cause-and-effect ladder that illustrates the Tea Act's significance in the subsequent Revolutionary War. Three reproducible handouts accompany these activities.
North Carolina Curriculum Alignment
Social Studies (2003)
Grade 8
- Goal 2: The learner will trace the causes and effects of the Revolutionary War, and assess the impact of major events, problems, and personalities during the Constitutional Period in North Carolina and the new nation.
- Objective 2.01: Trace the events leading up to the Revolutionary War and evaluate their relative significance in the onset of hostilities.
English Language Arts (2004)
Grade 8
- Goal 1: The learner will use language to express individual perspectives through analysis of personal, social, cultural, and historical issues.
- Objective 1.01: Narrate a personal account which:
- creates a coherent, organizing structure appropriate to purpose, audience, and context.
- establishes a point of view and sharpens focus.
- uses remembered feelings.
- selects details that best illuminate the topic.
- connects events to self/society.
- Objective 1.01: Narrate a personal account which:
