Teachers Guide for Teaching the American Revolution

 

The Freedom Trail Foundation offers a 100-page Freedom Trail Foundation American Revolution Curriculum Guide. This detailed and extensive curriculum guide includes lesson plans, suggested uses, Massachusetts History and Social Science Frameworks Connections, an extensive bibliography, and photographs of Freedom Trail sites and Freedom Trail Players (18th century costumed guides) and a map of the Midnight Ride. The Curriculum Guide is provided on a CD. Content includes:

CITY FACES: DAILY LIFE and ECONOMICS OF REVOLUTIONARY BOSTON
Who Were the Puritans;
Sacred Cod and the economics of the cod trade
Education in Massachusetts
Women and the Revolution
REVOLUTION: PROPAGANDA, MYTHS and LONGFELLOW
The Boston Massacre
Pamphlets and Broadsides
The Midnight Ride
John Adams, Hancock and Sam Adams
The Boston Tea Party
BIBLIOGRAPHY
LESSON PLAN SYNOPSIS
PHOTOGRAPHS of Freedom Trail Sites, guides and Midnight Ride map.


Click here to order the Freedom Trail Foundation American Revolution Curriculum Guide on a CD (cost is $30.00 plus $2.50 shipping) with an added bonus CD of over 50 images of the Freedom Trail sites, 18th century costumed guides, and a historic map of Paul Revere's route on the Midnight Ride. (Curriculum Guide is free for teachers participating in the Freedom Trail Scholars in-school history program.) Please contact Info@TheFreedomTrail.org if you have any questions.