Founding Fathers
Content Standards:
US1.2a, US1.2b, US1.3
Unit Summary:
This unit is designed as a middle school investigative unit. Students will research one of the Founding Fathers and perform a historical narrative of that figure.
Enduring Understanding:
Ideas are learned throughout life.
Essential Questions:
Who were the Founding Fathers?
What influenced their philisophy of government?
What is their legacy?
Knowledge
Students will be able to identify the Founding Fathers.
Students will know what historical and intellectual events influenced the Founding Fathers.
Students will know why a weak central government was the first form of governement.
Students will understand factors which led to the writing of the Constitution.
Skills
Students will be able to show a cause and effect relationship of historical and intellectual events.
Students will be able to show connections between
Students will make an oral presentation supported with artifacts.
Students will write a historical narritive (5 paragraphs)
Students will use appropriate research techniques.
Students will make artifacts to support their narrative.
Students will identify and devlop storytelling skills.
Acceptable Evidence
Performance tasks:
Students will develop and present a historical narrative of a Founding Father
Other Evidence:
Research skills- note taking, citation, work cited
Carousel
Learning Experience
1. Teacher will present Abigail Adams in a historical narrative format. (Hook)
2. Students will read chapters 29 through 39 (backgroung informatio)
3. Carousel- what do students know?
ancient Greece, ancient Rome, England, philosophers
4. Review ideological history (Fill in the unknown)
5. Assign Founding Father historical narrative project to students
6. Review research process/note cards, workcited, essay format
7. Peer editing
8. Oral and visual presentaion
Background Information
ancient Greece
ancient Rome
John Locke
Montesquieu
John Milton
Thomas Paine, Common Sence
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Magna Carta
Glorious Revolution
Great Awakening
Judea-Christian Influence
Founding Fathers
George Mason
James Madison
Thomas Jefferson
Ben Franklin
John Adams
Emdund Randolph
George Washington
Alexander Hamilton
Roger Sherman
Gouverneur Robert Morris