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Title: Who Has the Revolution in New England?
Goal: To learn and remember the different people and events
that made up the American Revolution in New England.
Grade level: This lesson is designed for the eighth grade.
Time: Introduction: 5 minutes
Game Cycle: est. 15 minutes
Multiple games at teacher's discretion
Estimated time of lesson: 20 minutes
Standards: Historical Thinking: 2G, 2I
Objectives: The students will complete at least one full cycle
of an "I am/Who Has" game, to 100% accuracy, while looking
at a previously completed map of Revolutionary New England.
Procedure:
1. The teacher should ask the students to take out
the maps of New England that they filled in during the "Where
in the World" lesson. These should have already been completed.
Note: The large map used during the previous lesson should
be put away.
2. The teacher should now pass out to the students the I Have/Who
has? cards. Each students should receive one at first. Any extra
should then be handed out. It is very important that every single
one of the cards be handed out. The teacher can keep one, to start
the game out.
3. The students should be instructed on how the game works. The
teacher will start by reading the second part of his/her card
(example, "Who has the person who led the American forces
at the battle of Bennington?").
4. All of the answers to the I have/who has cards should be found
somewhere on the students' maps. After looking at the maps, the
student who has an "I have" card that matches the description
should then speak up and read "I have John Stark."
5. The teacher, who should have a master list of the I Have/Who
Has cards, should confirm the answer if it is correct. The student
should then read the "Who has" portion of his/her card.
The student with the correct "I have" card should respond,
and the cycle continues until the last student reads the "Who
has" statement that matches the teacher's "I have"
card.
6 At the teacher's discretion, the class may repeat the entire
cycle if time allows, or if the teacher feels that the students
did not know the information well enough. It may be fun for the
class to see how fast they can get through the entire cycle. It
is advised that, if multiple games are to be played, that the
teacher "shuffle the deck" and give students different
cards.
Assessment: Teacher observation of student participation
Extensions: Students can be encouraged to create their own
questions and answers, which the teacher can put together for
a longer game.
I have NEW HAMPSHIRE.
Who has the Connecticut schoolteacher who was hanged by the British
for spying?
I have NATHAN HALE.
Who has the general who commanded the British Army in Boston?
I have GENERAL THOMAS GAGE.
Who has the creation that David Bushnell of Saybrook, Connecticut,
invented to sink British warships?
I have A SUBMARINE.
Who has the name of the New Hampshire general who defeated the
Hessians at Bennington, Vermont?
I have GENERAL JOHN STARK.
Who has the name of a New Hampshire general who fought the British
in Rhode Island?
I have GENERAL JOHN SULLIVAN.
Who has the name of the Rhode Island city that General Sullivan
fought over?
I have NEWPORT.
Who has the French general who landed troops in Newport after
the British evacuated?
I have GENERAL ROCHAMBEAU.
Who has the Boston silversmith who made a famous ride to warn
that the Redcoats were coming?
I have PAUL REVERE
Who has the naval disaster off the coast of Maine that Revere
participated in?
I have the PENOBSCOT EXPEDITION.
Who has an American victory off the coast of Maine?
I have THE CAPTURE OF THE MARGARETTA.
Who has the Connecticut man who lead the expedition through Maine
towards Quebec?
I have BENEDICT ARNOLD.
Who has the Vermonter who captured a fort in New York from the
British?
I have ETHAN ALLEN.
Who has the name of the fort Ethan Allen captured?
I have FORT TICONDEROGA.
Who has the fort in New Hampshire that was captured by patriots
in 1774?
I HAVE FORT WILLIAM AND MARY.
Who has the ship burned by patriots in 1774?
I have THE GASPEE.
Who has the town in Maine burned by the British navy?
I have FALMOUTH.
Who has the town on Long Island Sound burned by the British?
I have NEW LONDON, CONNECTICUT.
Who has the capital of Connecticut?
I have HARTFORD.
Who has the name of a bookseller who transported cannons from
Fort Ticonderoga to Boston during the winter of 1775?
I have HENRY KNOX.
Who has the body of water on which the battle of Valcour Island
took place?
I have LAKE CHAMPLAIN.
Who has the British general who was defeated at Saratoga?
I have GENERAL JOHN BURGOYNE.
Who has the British general who evacuated Boston in 1776?
I have GENERAL WILLIAM HOWE.
Who has the battle fought in Boston that was made famous by the
saying, "Don't fire till you see the white's of their eyes!"?
I have the BATTLE OF BUNKER HILL.
Who has the American general who took command of the army shortly
after the battle of Bunker Hill?
I have GEORGE WASHINGTON.
Who has the two first battle of the Revolution, where the 'Shot
heard 'round the World' was fired?
I have CONCORD AND LEXINGTON.
Who has the capital of Massachusetts?
I have BOSTON.
Who has the British victory in Vermont?
I have HUBBARDSTON.
Who has the area of Boston fortified by cannons from Fort Ticonderoga?
I have DORCHESTER HEIGHTS
Who has the land battle fought in Connecticut in 1777?
I have THE BATTLE OF RIDGEFIELD.
Who has the modern state that was then owned by Massachusetts?
I have MAINE.
Who has the colonial capital of Rhode Island?
I have PROVIDENCE.
Who has the major battle fought that ended Burgoyne's campaign?
I have SARATOGA.
Who has the British general who retreated back to Canada after
the battle of Valcour Island?
I have GENERAL GUY CARLETON
Who has the British victory in Connecticut in 1776?
I have DANBURY.
Who has the first colony to adopt its own state constitution?