USA History / Mr.Saindon
Monday, November 28
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Friday, December 1
The Battle of Yorktown is an essential battle of the Revolutionary War. It contains military strategy, diplomacy, and negotiation tactics. The Movie: Now or Never: The Yorktown Campaign of 1781!
Use these inquiry questions to spark analysis while viewing the film.
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What difficulties might someone encounter when working with another person or group?
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What is the relationship between diplomacy and compromise?
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How does honor play a role in the Battle of Yorktown?
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What makes a good leader? How did leadership contribute to Washington's success?
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Why did the Battle of Yorktown have to be "now or never"?
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What role did the France and Spain in winning this battle?
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Describe the mood and actions of General Lord Cornwallis with the loss and surrender.
Understanding the Declaration of Independence
Chapter 6 Notes
Chapter 6 Interactive Notebook
Debate over sending King the Olive Branch Petition
Click here to read the true story of how the Declaration of Independence was written. This is a very good article.
Here is a scene from the "John Adams" series showing the Second Continental Congress voting on the Declaration of Independence. This is so cool!!!
Watch Too Late to Apologize: A Declaration
Have we crossed the globe and we're standing on the ground. Screaming across the way you can hear the sound. There's no fair trials no train no liberty no tears with colonized America we will stand for a need oh keep and it's too late to apologize it's too late I said it's too late to follow a child it's too late. Page you foolish tax read the acts and they just won't do. We wanna make you feel we believe this much is true. A man were created with certain unalienable rights among these life liberty and the pursuit of a happy it's too late to apologize it's too late I said it's too late too by the time it's too late. It's too late. I say it. Too many. This is it. Halfway across the globe and we're standing on the ground.