American Revolution: Trouble Brews, Tea Does Not
CURRICULUM: America the Beautiful by Charlene Notgrass
Lesson 23: Trouble Brews Between England and Her Thirteen Colonies
My dear brothers and sisters, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, because human anger does not produce the righteousness that God desires.
James 1:19-20
CURRICULUM: We the People by Bethany Poore
The Evening of the 5th of March (1770) by John Adams c. 1805
TIMELINE: George III 1738-1820 A.D.
CURRICULLUM: Tapestry of Grace Year 2
Week 30: Give Me Liberty!
READ ALOUD: The Light and the Glory by Peter Marshall and David Manuel
Chapter 12: “No King but King Jesus!”
It was for freedom that Christ set us free; therefore, keep standing firm and do not be subject to a yoke of slavery.
Galatians 5:1
ACTIVITY: American Revolution by Homeschool in the Woods
Lesson 4: The Problems Begin – Pie Book of “Acts”
ACTIVITY: American Revolution by Homeschool in the Woods
Lesson 4: The Problems Begin – Taxation Frustration Game
THE ROYAL PROCLAMATION OF 1763
TIMELINE: The Royal Proclamation of 1763 AD
THE SUGAR ACT
READ ALOUD: The Anchor: P. Moore Proprietor
TIMELINE: The Sugar Act 1764 AD
THE STAMP ACT
READ ALOUD: The Stamp Act of 1765
READ ALOUD: The Stamp Act of 1765
TIMELINE: Stamp Act 1765 A.D
READ ALOUD: Lizzie and the Redcoat: Stirrings of Revolution in the American Colonies
THE TOWNSEND ACTS
TIMELINE: Townsend Acts 1767 A.D.
READ ALOUD: 1768 Maine – The Sign of the Beaver
MOVIE: The Sign of the Beaver
MOVIE: Keeping the Promise
I like this activity on perspective for Sign of the Beaver.
THE BOSTON MASSACRE
READ ALOUD: Lydia the Patriot: The Boston Massacre
READ ALOUD: For Liberty: The Story of the Boston Massacre
READ ALOUD: Under the Liberty Tree, A Story of the Boston Massacre
TIMELINE: The Boston Massacre March 5, 1770 A.D.
THE BOSTON TEA PARTY
READ ALOUD: Friends of Liberty
READ ALOUD: Colonial Voices: Hear Them Speak
This is an excellent book. We really enjoyed the perspectives of Patriots vs Loyalists as the book walks through the town visiting various places and people on the night of December 16, 1773.
No taxation without representation!
c. 1768 A.D.
READ ALOUD: The Boston Tea Party
This is a really good book with lively narrative and historical character sketches.
READ ALOUD: The Boston Tea Party
This book has beautiful watercolor illustrations.
READ ALOUD: Boston Tea Party, Rebellion in the Colonies
READ ALOUD: You Wouldn’t Want to Be at the Boston Tea Party!: Wharf Water Tea You’d Rather Not Drink
READ ALOUD: Letters for Freedom: The American Revolution
READ ALOUD: Kate and the Spies (Boston Tea Party, 1775) by JoAnn A. Grote
MOVIE: Liberty’s Kids: The Boston Tea Party
ACTIVITY: Make liberty tea or ‘Liber-TEA’ made from local herbs. We made and sipped hot herbal tea aka chamomile tea and honey like true Patriots.
ACTIVITY: Scholastic Easy Make & Learn Projects: Colonial America
Map of Old Boston
ACTIVITY: Scholastic Easy Make & Learn Projects: Colonial America
Boston Town Meeting Pop-Up Book
GEOGRAPHY: Mapping Pre-Revolution Colonial Boston, MA
Locate the Old State House, Boston Massacre, Green Dragon Tavern, Old South Meeting Hall, Griffin’s Wharf, Liberty Tree, Old North Church, Faneuil Hall, Paul Revere House
WEBSITE: Boston Tea Party Historical Society
FIELD TRIP: Boston Tea Party Ships and Museum
MUSIC: The Rally Mohawks Song (Sung after the Boston Tea Party)
Rally, Mohawks bring out your axes!
And tell King George we’ll pay no taxes
on his foreign tea!His threats are vain – and vain to think
To force our girls and wives to drink
His vile Bohea!Then rally boys, and hasten on
To meet our Chiefs at the Green Dragon.Our Warren’s there, and bold Revere,
With hands to do and words to cheer
For Liberty and Laws!Our country’s Braves and firm defenders
Shall ne’er be left by true North-Enders,
Fighting Freedom’s cause!Then rally boys and hasten on
to meet our Chiefs at the Green Dragon.
TIMELINE: Boston Tea Party 1773 A.D.
THE COERCIVE ACTS aka THE INTOLERABLE ACTS
MOVIE: Liberty’s Kids: Intolerable Acts
TIMELINE: Intolerable Acts 1774 A.D.
THE FIRST CONTINENTAL CONGRESS
READ ALOUD: Liberty!: How the Revolutionary War Began (Landmark Books) by Lucille Recht Penner and David Wenzel
ACTIVITY: Scholastic Easy Make & Learn Projects: Colonial America
Peek-Inside Philadelphia
MOVIE: Liberty’s Kids: United We Stand
MOVIE: All They Do Is Tax
TIMELINE: First Continental Congress September 5 to October 26, 1774 A.D.
THE SONS OF LIBERTY
Sons of Liberty:
John Adams
Samuel Adams 1722-1803 A.D.
READ ALOUD: Why Don’t You Get A Horse Sam Adams? by Jean Fritz
Benedict Arnold
Benjamin Edes
Christopher Gadsden
John Hancock
Patrick Henry
John Holt
John Lamb
Alexander McDougall
James Otis
Charles Willson Peale
Paul Revere
Benjamin Rush
Isaac Sears
Haym Solomon
James Swan
Charles Thomson
Joseph Warren
Thomas Young
Marinus Willett
Oliver Wolcott
TIMELINE: The Liberty Tree
READ ALOUD: Early Thunder by Jean Fritz
MUSIC: Liberty Tree by Thomas Paine
Plant the seed in our homeland, boys. Let it grow where all can see.
Feed it with our devotion, boys. Call it the Liberty Tree.It’s a tall old Tree
And a strong old Tree
And we are the Sons
Yes, we are the Sons
The Sons of Liberty.Save it from the storm, boys. Water down its roots with tea.
And the sun will always shine on the ole’ Liberty Tree.It’s a tall old Tree
And a strong old Tree
And we are the Sons
Yes, we are the Sons
The Sons of Liberty.March along with the piper, boys. We were born forever free.
Let’s go pay the piper, boys, beneath the Liberty Tree.It’s a tall old Tree
And a strong old Tree
And we are the Sons
Yes, we are the Sons
The Sons of Liberty.Pay the price they’re asking, boys. Always pay the tyrant’s fee.
Never give up the struggle, boys. Fight for the Liberty Tree.It’s a tall old Tree
And a strong old Tree
And we are the Sons
Yes, we are the Sons
The Sons of Liberty.Stand for the rights of man, boys. Stand against all tyranny.
Hang the lamps of freedom, boys, high on the Liberty Tree.It’s a tall old Tree
And a strong old Tree
And we are the Sons
Yes, we are the Sons
The Sons of Liberty.N’ it will grow as we grow, boys. It will be as strong as we.
We must cling to our faith, boys- faith in the Liberty Tree.It’s a tall old Tree
And a strong old Tree
And we are the Sons
Yes, we are the Sons
The Sons of Liberty.
MOVIE: Sons of Liberty by History Channel (Viewer Discretion)
Episode 1: A Dangerous Game
Episode 2: The Uprising
MOVIE: America: The Story of Us by the History Channel
Episode: Rebels
CHURCH & STATE
TIMELINE: Isaac Backus 1724-1806 A.D
Now who can hear Christ declare, that his kingdom is, not of this world, and yet believe that this blending of church and state together can be pleasing to him? – 1773
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