American Revolutionary

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American Revolutionary War
by Julie Turnage
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Comparing and Contrastthe Gale Group World Book

• Gale Group
• not as teacher friendly
• did not find as many
• articles
• has different age
• appropriate age levels for searching articles

• World Book
• very teacher friendly
• many different articles
• for students to search
• does not classify articles into appropriate age
  levels

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Overview
Students will explore the American Revolutionary
War by choosing main ideas from various sources
(Gale Group, World Book, Internet, text book,
etc) and demonstrate their knowledge of the war
through creating a PowerPoint slide show.
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Objectives

• The students will research the Internet,
• Gale Group, World Book, text books, etc
• to gather information about the
• Revolutionary War
• The students will create a PowerPoint
• presentation to demonstrate their
• knowledge on the important people in the war

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Standards and Benchmarks
Standards ELA-Standard Two students write
competently for a variety of purposes and
audiences ELA-Standard Three Students
communicate using standard English grammar,
usage, sentence structure, punctuation,
capitalization, spelling, and handwriting
ELA-Standard Four Students demonstrate
competence in speaking and listening as tools for
learning and communicating. ELA-Standard Five
Students locate, select, and synthesize
information from a variety of texts, media,
references, and technological sources to acquire
and communicate knowledge.
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Continued
ELA-3-E2 demonstrating use of punctuation (e.g.,
comma, apostrophe, period, question mark,
exclamation mark) capitalization, and
abbreviations in final drafts of writing
assignments (1,4) ELA-3-E3 demonstrating stand
English structure and usage (1,4) ELA-3-M5
spelling accurately using strategies and
resources (e.g., glossary, dictionary,
thesaurus, spell check) when necessary (1,3,4)
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History Time, Continuity, and Change Students
develop a sense of historical time and
historicalperspective as they study the history
of their community, state, nation, and
world. H-1B-M6 explaining the causes and course
of the American Revolution and the reasons for
the American victory (1,3,4) H-1B-M7 explaining
the impact of the American Revolution on the
politics, society and economy of the new nation
(1,3,4) H-1B-M8 relating the institutions and
practices of government established during and
after the Revolution to the foundation of the
American political system (1,3,4)
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Lesson Procedures

• Procedures
• Divide class into pairs/team of two.
• Read The Secret Solider aloud to the class.
• 3. Students are to use note taking skills to list
  three
• facts for
• a. Her significance in the Revolutionary War
  (e.g.
• how and why Deborah Sampson became a
• solider)
• b. Her experiences in the war
• c. Some of the obstacles she experienced

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• 4. Discuss findings with students
• 5. Teacher will assign each student a man or
  woman of the war
• Teacher will then pass out rubric guide sheet
• students will use to create a PowerPoint
  presentation on their assigned person
• 7. The students will then use Gale Group
  Infotrack created by the teacher, World Book
  Online, Internet, or textbook, etc. to gather
  information.
• 8. Since we can only use our PC lab on Fridays
  this may take several days to complete. When
  students have free time in class, they may search
  for information using class computers.
• 9. Once all information is gathered on assigned
  person students will create their PowerPoint
  presentation.
• 10. After all students have completed their
  PowerPoint, they will
• use the laptop/projector in classroom to
  present their
• presentation.

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Enhancement
The assigned guideline sheet will have questions
about the man or woman they are researching. The
students will then be able to use the Internet
to research their information instead of using
the old traditional way Encyclopedias or
books.
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Assessment
A rubric would be used for assessing the
PowerPoint presentation. Below are the categories
that would be included on the rubric. I would
use a 5 point grading scale.
Accuracy Content
Graphics
Originality
Font
Presentation
Grammatical Errors
Background