Lesson 6: The Haitian Revolution

Did independence liberate the countries of Latin America?

les grands blancs, colony, Enlightenment, social class, slavery, maroons, les petits blancs, affranchis, plantation, Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, coup d’état

WHST.6-8.10 Write routinely over extended time frames (time for reflection and revision) and shorter time frames (a single sitting or a day or two) for a range of discipline-specific tasks, purposes, and audiences.

WHST.6-8.9 Draw evidence from informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research.

WHST.6-8.6 Use technology, including the Internet, to produce and publish writing and present the relationships between information and ideas clearly and efficiently.

DOK 4 Extended Reasoning

3c. Assessing student learning, providing feedback to students and adjusting instruction.

Students may think that the Latin American revolutions, like the American Revolution, were several distinct, individual wars (for example, that the Mexican Revolution was a single war and the Haitian Revolution was a single war). In fact, the term revolution is an umbrella term that includes a variety of discreet yet related military, economic, and political conflicts.

The Core Interactive Text provides reading at the appropriate level of text complexity for grades 6-8. These readings can be completed with or without scaffolding from Graphic Organizers and reading tools.
The Primary Source Inquiry Library provides primary source texts which add additional complexity and depth to the content.

Students will work on review sheets as well as take an open-note quiz on the unit. 

There will also be cumulative projects that will assess their learning.