The 2008 case materials have been posted at this link.

I’ll make a comprehensive packet for all participants and distribute it at our first meeting, after school on Tuesday, December 4 in room 232.  It shouldn’t take longer than 45 minutes.

If you have questions or concerns, please don’t hesitate to e-mail me or flag me down in the halls.

I look forward to seeing (and, in many cases, meeting) you next week.

Cover letter 11/29 (PDF, 13 kb)

Prohibition slides (PDF, 841 kb)
“Roaring 20s: Two Americas” slides (PDF, 1.5 mb)
Sacco and Vanzetti activity (PDF, 76 kb)

Here you go.

The Cusp of Revolution (PDF, 12 kb)

Considering our class studies and the movie we watched, choose one of the six prompts and write a two-paragraph essay.

1920s immigration packet (PDF, 524 kb)

This is the four-page packet we completed mostly in class.

Reading apprenticeship assignment:

John Adams’ diary (PDF, 20 kb)

Here you go.

For the last two-and-a-half weeks, we’ve talked about the fallout from the French and Indian War — changes in the colonial economy, taxes and tariffs passed by the British, and, eventually, the Boston Massacre.

We then covered the escalation that ended with the first shots of the Revolutionary War — the Boston Tea Party, Intolerable Acts, and the First Continental Congress.

Below, find the slideshows from the entire unit, plus links to the two illustrations of the Boston Massacre that we analyzed.

If you missed the Boston Massacre video (it used modern-day forensic science to analyze what “really happened” on March 5, 1770), see me and I’ll be sure you get a copy.

Bridge to Revolution part 1 (PDF, 1.4 mb)
Bridge to Revolution part 2 (PDF, 1.8 mb)