Table of Contents

• Title | Essential Question• Vocabulary• Sequence

– Pass one printout to one student (8 total)• Longfellow Poem• Paul Revere Painting

– Silversmith, Engraver, Patriot• Boston Massacre Engraving• Sensory Activity• Essential Question Answered• Printouts

The Boston Massacre

Essential Question:Why would the Boston Massacre

unite the colonies against the British?

Vocabulary

• Propaganda

• Massacre

Each student put themselves into sequential order.

French & Indian War - Boston Massacre

Listen my children and you shall hearOf the midnight ride of Paul Revere,On the eighteenth of April, in Seventy-five;Hardly a man is now aliveWho remembers that famous day and year.

Sensory Activity

• Pick someone in the painting, No, not the dog. British or colonist.

• Write a paragraph describing everything you saw at the Boston Massacre as if you were that person.

• Use the 5 senses:• I saw• I heard• I smelled• I tasted• I felt --- NOT EMOTIONS

Essential Question

• Why would the Boston Massacre unite the colonies against the British?

French & Indian War

Pontiac’s Rebellion

Sugar Act

Stamp Act

Quartering Act

Townshend Act

Boston Massacre