Cause and Effect

Students will get in groups and gather information about a certain event that led to the American Revolution (16.A.2b).

Students will identify the causes and effects of the events (16.A.4a).

Illustrating and gathering facts about an incident in history

Liberty!  How the Revolutionary War Began by Lucille Recht Penner

Blank paper

Markers or crayons

Anticipatory Set:

	Tell the students that today we are going to talk about the American Revolution and what the causes were that led the colonists to decide to fight.
	Tell them that they will listen carefully as you read exerts from a book and that they are going to do an activity in groups afterwards.

Development:

	Introduce and the book, Liberty!  How the Revolutionary War Began. Read pages 4-11 and pages 14-17 Be sure to show illustrations in the book to the students.
	Discuss what you have just read from the book. Sequence of events Causes and Effects of each event
	Break students into groups with a separate event to research  Emphasize that dates need to be included  Make sure causes and effects are stated Have students assign different jobs to people in group.
	Have each group present their picture and facts to the class.

Closure:

	Collect illustrations
	Tell students the illustrations will be made into a game used later as review

Students will make a power point presentations displaying the information they gathering about the event.

After the illustrations, students will fill out a worksheet identifying several events or causes that led to the American Revolution.

The students will be assessed based on their group work by using a rubric. 

	Do the students have the dates of their event?
	Do the students have the key facts?