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This book contains poems from the perspectives of various colonial individuals giving their opinions about the boston tea party. Teaching the american revolution in upper elementary thrive. Following is the list of adopted titles used for the seventh grade reading program. Students have acquired enough skills to work independently but are still full of wonder and curiosity. I am always so very excited to grade my students tests and find out how much they learned. Discover printables, worksheets, thematic units, elementary lesson plans.
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Because the passages are similar between the grade level packs, varying only on the lexile level, the close read questions between the grade level packs will also be similar. Revolutionary waryoung readers this collection consists of ten books that illustrate the revolutionary war from many different perspectives. Welcome to, where youll find a variety of free printable history worksheets for home and classroom use. This file contains an article about washington and his men crossing the delaware river before the battle of trenton. Find and level books by searching the book wizard database of more than 50,000 childrens books. The american patriots in the thirteen colonies defeated the british in the american revolutionary war 17751783 with the assistance of france, winning independence from great britain and establishing the united states of america the american colonials proclaimed no taxation without representation.