On Your Own

Watch this movie about the Thirteen Colonies. If you do not go there directly after logging-in, find the movie under Social Studies. Please take both quizzes.

Watch the movie The Causes Of The American Revolution. If you do not go there directly after logging-in, find the movie under Social Studies. Please take both quizzes.

Play For Crown or Colony?

Complete this Timeline of early American History.

Watch this short video on The Struggle For North America.

Explore The Boston Tea Party.

Explore this American Revolution Timeline.

Here's another American Revolution timeline.

Learn about battle tactics during the Revolution.

SAS William Penn

With A Partner

Read about the Boston Tea Party.

Correct these sentences.

SPANISH LANGUAGE PREVIEW:

Thirteen Colonies Movie

With A Partner

Read Is There Still Slavery Today?

On Your Own

Go to The Best Resources For Learning About Human Trafficking Today. Look through the links there and take notes. Please write down in the comments section of this post the three most important things you've learned and why chose them.

Think of time you stopped doing something even though you wanted to keep on doing it. What was it, and what made you stop?

Now try to put yourself in the mind of an American colonist who had slaves hundreds of years ago.  Then try to put yourself in the mind of someone who has slaves today.

If you were one of them, what do you think would have to happen in order to make you stop having slaves and why?

SPANISH PREVIEW:

As a Class:

We'll watch this movie clip from "Amistad":

Amistad Interactive

With A Partner

Watch this animation about the Slave Trade.

The Atlantic Slave Trade in Two Minutes

Trans Atlantic Slave Trade Visualization

SlaveVoyages.org

On Your Own

Watch several of these movies on slavery. Write down in the comments section the three most important things you learned from them.

SAS The Middle Passage

Complete these clozes about slavery.

Try to put yourself in the mind of a slave.  Describe how you think you might feel.

We have now learned about slavery in the American colonies hundreds of years ago.

Do you think there might be slavery still going on today? Why or why not?