Revolutionary Mothers
The American Revolution was a home-front war that brought scarcity, bloodshed, and danger into the life of every American. In this groundbreaking history, Carol Berkin shows us how women played a vital role throughout the conflict.
The women of the Revolution were most active at home, organizing boycotts of British goods, raising funds for the fledgling nation, and managing the family business while struggling to maintain a modicum of normalcy as husbands, brothers and fathers died. Yet Berkin also reveals that it was not just the men who fought on the front lines, as in the story of Margaret Corbin, who was crippled for life when she took her husband’s place beside a cannon at Fort Monmouth. This incisive and comprehensive history illuminates a fascinating and unknown side of the struggle for American independence.
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Assignment: Read the entire text. Use the content to create a Similarites and Differences activity.
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This interactive online guide provides a step by step template for writing comparative essays. It provides the prompt and allows the student to save their work when finished.
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This APP helps students make a straightforward Venn Diagram. Students can color code, title and add multiple bubbles. When finished work can be saved online and printed
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This online program helps students make a straightforward Venn Diagram. Students can color code, title and add multiple bubbles. When finished work can be saved and downloaded as a PDF
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In the classroom and at home, students use Popplet for learning. Used as a mind-map, Popplet helps students think and learn visually. Students can capture facts, thoughts, and images and learn to create relationships between them.
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Creately graphic organizers are visual representations of knowledge, concepts, thoughts, or ideas. They are usually presented in an easy to understand format, such as charts, tables, and graphs.
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Students compose a poem for two voices in the “voice” of the two individuals. Poems are then read aloud by two students, each assuming one of the voices from the poem. Poems can be written/adapted for more than two Voices
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In their book Classroom Instruction That Works, Robert J. Marzano, Debra J. Pickering, and Jane Pollock present four “forms” of identifying similarities and differences: comparing, classifying, creating metaphors, and creating analogies.For each form, this link has an overview and links to related content and tips for classroom instruction. General links provide information about one or more forms of the strategy.
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