Lesson 3: The First Confrontations
Duration of Days: 3
Lesson Objective
Students will be able to analyze how colonists reacted to the British control of the colonies leading up to the American Revolution.
Is an event’s impact defined by what actually happened, or by what people were told happened?
Is property damage a legitimate form of political protest?
How does propaganda affect major political and cultural movements?
Boston Massacre
Boston Tea Party
Propaganda
Gathering and analyzing primary and secondary sources
Communicating and drawing conclusions
Development claims and using evidence
Determine bias and author’s purpose
Taking an informed action
Students will be introduced to propaganda in this lesson. They will also be introduced to the idea that dramatization and exaggeration of facts are often used to sway the opinion of the public.
Students can complete a See, Think, Wonder, rather than completing the document comparing the two different images of the Boston Massacre