The Midnight Ride of...Who?

We have been up to so much the past month, and I haven't had time to post as much as I'd like to! The  focus recently in social studies has been Paul Revere and the work he did to help the colonies gain their independence from Great Britain.

As a culminating project, students worked as cartographers to create a map of the famous Midnight Ride. We discussed that although Paul Revere became famous for this because of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem, he was not alone! He had help from Samuel Prescott and William Dawes. I will be posting some pictures of the maps soon.

Students also had the option of taking their learned further and researching one of the 13 colonies. Here are some of the projects:

Jaxon researched Georgia.

Morgan also researched Georgia.

Charlsey researched New York.

I was really impressed by the information the students came up with. Our next unit is Government, and students will be given an at-home task to show what they've learned about the three branches. I can't wait to see the creative ideas they come up with!
-Mrs. Green