Unit 1
Fifth Grade Focus: The Colonies Revolt
TASS: Flexibility, Collaboration, Synthesis, Metacognition, Elaboration, Intellectual Risk Taking, Evaluation,
Effort/Motivation/Persistence
What question do we ask ourselves?
1. How does conflict create change?
2. Explain how colonists worked against the British
Government.
3. Why did the colonist revolt?
What words do we need to know to master the objectives?
colonists
debts
protest
metaphor
representation
Quartering Act
Stamp Act
massacre
What do we need to know and be able to do?
1. Analyze decisions of individuals, groups and
institutions.
2. Explain how taxes finance government
operations and provide public goods and
services.
3. Analyze how conflicts affect relationships
among individuals and groups.
French and Indian War
Proclamation of 1763
What resources will we use?
Why are we learning this?
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To enhance our use of informational text.
To sharpen our reading comprehension skills.
To understand how conflict can lead to change.
To understand why colonists revolted.
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Maps
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Comprehension questions
Brief Constructed Responses
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