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Unit: The Foundation of the United States
This Unit Activity will help you meet these educational goals:
• Inquiry Skills—You will develop questions and plan investigations; use content knowledge to develop compelling questions or supporting questions; apply disciplinary concepts and tools; analyze societal issues, trends, and events; evaluate change and continuity over time; gather, evaluate, and use evidence; develop credible explanations of historical events and developments based on reasoned interpretation of evidence; develop explanations and make persuasive arguments in support of your conclusions; communicate your conclusions; and reflect on your actions.
• 21st Century Skills—You will employ online tools for research and analysis, use critical-thinking and problem solving-skills, assess and validate information, and independently raise questions and pursue leads.

Introduction
For any historian, it is important to find and use historical resources and determine relevant information from those sources. This activity will help you analyze and evaluate the information presented in historical sources. You will interpret a famous Revolutionary image, contemplate the impact of the image on the Revolutionary period, and provide short answers to a few questions based on your analysis. You will also research a topic on the era before the Revolution, analyze sources for information, and write a short essay describing your analysis.

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Directions and Analysis
Task 1: The Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre is an important event in the period just before the American Revolution. On March 5, 1770, five colonists were killed by British soldiers in the streets of Boston. This incident increased tensions between the colonists and the British government, bringing each closer to the beginning of the war.

This engraving of the Boston Massacre is by the famous patriot Paul Revere. Use the image and your own knowledge of the period to answer the questions below, writing about three to four sentences for each response.


a. Describe the imagery of the engraving, and note any specific details you find important.

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b. When and where did the engraving first appear? Does this influence the meaning?

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c. What was Revere’s main purpose in producing this piece?

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d. Compare and contrast the colonial and British perceptions of the Boston Massacre and Revere’s engraving.

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e. Why might this image be interpreted as propaganda?

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Task 2: Causes and Effects of the American Revolution
A historian’s job is to study the past. This means that a historian must think about the causes and effects of historical events, as well as people’s reactions or interpretations of the events. For this task, you’ll need to think like a historian and research the causes or effects of a historical event. Focus your research on one of these two topics:
• How did religion play a role as a cause of the American independence movement and subsequent Revolution?
• How did the documents and ideals of the American Revolution, particularly the Declaration of Independence, speak to all people, including women and African slaves? How did these ideals clash with the reality of gender inequality and slavery?

Once you have decided on a topic, conduct research to find resources that provide evidence to support your position. A few sources have been provided for you in the Resources section below. You will use the sources you find, your notes, and your knowledge to write a short (250- to 500-word) essay that answers the question you selected.

Using what you know about researching, examine your sources. For each source, you may need to do research online to answer these questions:
• Who authored the document?
• What is the purpose of the document?
• When was the document written?
• What significant historical event or movement does the document represent?

Next, you’ll need to read each of the sources critically while thinking about these questions:
• What is the credibility of the source?
• Is there any noticeable bias?
• How does the author form his or her argument?
• What are the important themes, main ideas, and arguments presented in the document?

Finally, refer to your notes and the provided documents to write a short essay. Using the author-date system, make sure you provide parenthetical, in-text citations for any information you use from outside sources. When you have finished, reread your essay to check for all of the points above, and then proofread it to be sure your work does not contain errors in grammar or spelling.

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Resources

Writing Resources
• Research and writing information
• Creating a thesis statement
• Methods for writing a high-quality paper
• The author-date system

Content Resources
• British view of the Boston Massacre
• Paul Revere’s engraving The Bloody Massacre in King Street
• "Religion and the American Revolution" (Library of Congress)
• "Religion and the American Revolution" (National Humanities Center)
• "Two American Revolutions"
• "The Declaration of Independence and Its Legacy"
• Slavery and the Declaration of Independence
• Letter from Abigail Adams

Document any references you used for this project below. At a minimum, include a title and URL for any Internet resource:

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Evaluation
Your teacher will use this rubric to evaluate the completeness of your work as well as the clarity of thinking you exhibit.

Score Criteria
8-9
Distinguished
• Includes numerous relevant, well-formed points that show a thorough analysis of historical resources.
• Effectively evaluates the key points, main ideas, and arguments of the research.
• Writes a concise essay that clearly and successfully synthesizes the research information.
• The essay is error free or contains minor grammar and spelling errors.
5-7
Proficient
• Includes many points that satisfactorily analyze historical resources.
• Evaluates the key points, main ideas, and arguments presented in the research.
• Writes an essay that completes the task by combining research information.
• The essay contains a few minor grammar and spelling errors.
2-4
Basic
• Includes some points that show some evaluation of historical resources, but may omit key points.
• Pinpoints many key points, main ideas, and arguments presented in the research, but restates rather than analyzes this information.
• Writes an essay that partially or incompletely utilizes the research information.
• The essay contains multiple grammar or spelling errors.
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Inadequate
• Includes one or two points, but inadequately discusses or misses important information from the resources.
• Identifies or analyzes only a few of the key points, main ideas, and arguments presented in the research.
• Writes an essay that may include some information but is generally incomplete and lacking proper analysis.
• The essay contains numerous grammar and spelling errors.
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Non-Performance Is completely off topic or blank.

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Answer 5

The chances of somebody here doing the whole thing for you are pretty slim. And even getting help for the whole thing is asking a lot.

So, start by breaking it down. First I'm assuming you have read and done all the assignments for the unit. If you have not, stop. Go back and do those assignments.

Next is reading the actual assignment. You have several pages. Read the whole thing. You might notice that the las part is about evaluation. It's telling you how you will be graded. Read through that too, but set it aside until you think your close to being done.

Next, notice the resources. That's where your answers are. Or at least the background. Have you read the stuff labeled Content Resources? If not, go read them. If you have a print copy, mark it up. Or take notes. You've already read the questions so mark anything that seems to help answer one of the two Task questions.

You've already read the first page and introduction. That's interesting and probably freaked you out because you didn't get it all. That's OK. It's just teacher stuff they put in to show their boss.

If you've done the background stuff, you are ready for Task#1
Read the directions again. It has some background info and some things todo. Do them one at a time. If you don't understand one, you can skip it and do another. Or you can come here and ask that specific question. People will help you with a part of the assignment a lot more quickly than with the whole thing. Then do the next thing.

Basicly, do all the background reading and assignments you can. Then break it down into little parts. Do one thing as best you can, then do the next