Thematic+unit

**Grade:** 8 **Lesson Title: **What happened at the battles of Lexington and Concord **Lesson Targets: **At the end of this lesson the students will know what happened at Lexington and Concord. **Activities: **The students will be broken into groups. Each group will be given an envelope. Inside the envelope will be different primary and secondary accounts of the battles of Lexington and Concord. After the students read the accounts the will have to draw a pictures on poster paper of what happened based on the evidence they were given. After the students are done they will present their posters to the class with thier groups interpretation of the events. **Thematic Unit Tie In:** This lesson is designed to be an inquiry-based lesson that will tie into a unit about the Revolutionary War. ** Reflection ** When I did this lesson for our inquiry-based lesson assignment, I felt that it went well. I realized I would need a better introduction, since I had one group think that Lexington and Concord were during the Civil War. They had drawn a confederacy flag on thier poster. I did double check dates on their evidence and it was actuate for the Revolutionary War. The next time I teach this lesson I will be more clear that we are in the Revolutionary War period.
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