Materials

• Overhead used in session 1
• Overhead projector

Instructional Activities

1. Put on the overhead projector the session 1 list of things the students knew about the American Revolution. Determine whether their thoughts have been proved or disproved.
   
   
2. Review the essential knowledge of this organizing topic through discussion, a jeopardy-style game, or a debate. At a minimum, include the following essential knowledge in this process:
   • John Locke
   • Enlightenment
   • French and Indian War
   • Proclamation of 1763
   • Stamp Act
   • Stamp Act Congress
   • Boston Tea Party
   • First Continental Congress
   • Minutemen
   • Lexington and Concord
   • Thomas Paine
   • Thomas Jefferson
   • Declaration of Independence
   • Patriots
   • Loyalists
   • Neutrals
   • General George Washington
   • French involvement in the American Revolution
   • Battle of Yorktown
   • Benjamin Franklin and the Treaty of Paris, 1783