Essential Question(s)
- How were the Taxes and Acts passed prior to the Revolution supported or rejected by their supporters or opponents?
- How do these Taxes and Acts effect the relationship between the government of Great Britain and the colonists?
Standards Directly Addressed in Unit: - CCSS - ELA 8.2 - Determine the central ideas or information of a primary or secondary source; provide an accurate summary of the source distinct from prior knowledge or opinions.
- CCSS - ELA 8.6 - Identify aspects of a text that reveal an author’s point of view or purpose
- WMAS 8.4 - Explain how and why events may be interpreted differently depending upon the perspectives of participants, witnesses, reporters, and historians
Topics/Activities Tarring and Feathering/John and Abigail Adams/John Hancock and Smuggling
Summative Assessment Taxes - A Love/Hate Relation
- Using your Crazy Colonists Simulation identity, identify one tax/act from this section that you support, and one tax/act that you are in opposition to. For each you need to include a description of what the tax/act does, how it effects your character, and why you are in support or opposition to it.
This should be a written summative to be turned in using Google Drive to jms@oregonsd.net. The title of your submission should be Taxes - A Love/Hate Relation - (Name)
2. There will be a short quiz with both Multiple Choice and Short Answer questions on the Taxes/Acts. The Multiple Choice questions will cover all four of the taxes/acts of this unit. The short answer questions will deal primarily with the effect or the application of the taxes. |
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