9/13-14 Thursday-Friday

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Guiding Question: 
Why were the colonists upset about taxation? 


Objectives:
Collaborative: Students will understand the colonists’ reactions to the Stamp & Quartering Acts by reading, annotating, and answering guiding questions with at least 80% accuracy.

Independent: Students will understand Britain’s need to tax the colonists by investigating the French & Indian War and answering guiding questions with at least 80% accuracy.

Standards:
8.1.1 Describe the relationship between the moral and political ideas of the Great Awakening and the development of revolutionary fervor.
RI.8.1 - Cite the textual evidence that most strongly supports an analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.

Do Now (Voice Level 0) 5 minutes: 
What is a tax? What do you think they’re used for?*
*If you don’t know, make an educated guess.
Whole Group (Voice Level 0) 10 minutes: 
Unit 2 Introduction
Independent (Voice Level 0) 45 minutes: 
Task 1: French & Indian War Assignment in Google Classroom
Task 2: Look at Google Classroom, have you completed all the assignments? A lot of you have not turned everything in. 

Early Finisher?: 
- Work on homework for another class
- Read a NewsELA, CNN, or Achieve article 
- Practice your typing 
- Read a book

Collaborative (Voice Level .5) 45 minutes:
1. Stamp & Quartering Acts Annotations 
2. Guiding question work time 

Exit Ticket (Voice Level 0) 5 minutes: 
On board
Homework: 
I am checking google classroom work this weekend, make sure it is all complete! 

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