Independence Now! – the story – begins with the First Continental Congress and the Suffolk Resolves, a powder keg that ignited military action and set the scene for “the shot heard ‘round the world” at Lexington and Concord.
This is a chronological journey that takes the reader to Ticonderoga, the siege of Boston, Bunker Hill, Washington’s arrival in Boston, and to Dorchester Heights. Included in the Teacher’s Guide and the Student Workbook is a script for Independence Now!
This play has been performed for many years at Knott’s Berry Farm’s replica of Independence Hall in Southern California. It can be read as literature, performed as reader’s theater in the classroom, or staged as a school performance.
For this edition, we have included a narrator in the character of Mercy Otis Warren, who will guide students through the play. Mercy wrote satires mocking British loyalists and government officials. The plays were published anonymously. No one but her close friends, including John Adams, knew that they were written by a woman. Mercy Otis Warren was also the first woman to publish an eye-witness account of the American Revolution.
The Teacher’s Guide contains a Correlation to Standards, Goals for the course, a Scope and Sequence, and all of the material included in the Student Workbook, together with an Answer Key. It also includes a link that contains a formative and summative assessment that can be used in Google Classroom, Canvas, Schoology, or other Learning Management Systems.
These documents can be annotated and edited for the individual needs of your students. This project-based course engages students through learning dispositions that involve listening, reading, thinking, analyzing, writing, and performing reader’s theater. Students learn about Thomas Paine’s dream of a new republic in America – the first in the world to be ruled by the people – in his call for Common Sense. We conclude with Jefferson’s Declaration of Independence based on Enlightenment principles that guide us, hundreds of years later, through challenging times we encounter today.
Your purchase includes the Independence Now! Teacher’s Guide, the Student Workbook, and the audio drama, which can be used for many years as new students embark upon the study of the American Revolution!
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