Description: This fun prompt requires students to relate to how the colonists must have felt after the passage of the Royal Proclamation of 1763, by writing about the worst rule they've ever had to follow.

Description: This activity explains Franklin's famous "Join or Die" woodcut and requires students to think of prominent logos of today's businesses and organizations (e.g. Target, Nike etc.) and (similarly) attempt to explain the symbolism behind the logos.

Description: This activity illustrates the famous Emblem of the Effects of the Stamp and requires students to make their own “dreaded” stamp that could serve as a protest to homework.

Description: This fun social studies activity requires students to create a Franklin family shield based on the many accomplishments of Benjamin.

Description: This activity explains Franklin's preference for the wild turkey as America's national symbol and requires students to redesign the back of the quarter according to Franklin's wishes. Great Thanksgiving exercise!

Description: This activity requires students to document the specific of the Stamp Act and Townshend Act with icons.

Description: This activity requires students to imagine their school institutes unjust acts against them such as the Homework Act and Cafeteria Act similar to the Stamp Act, Townshend Act, and Intolerable Acts. It then requires students to fill in the details of such acts before coming up with one of their own.

Description: This activity requires students to think about the concept of boycott and to write about a modern product, service, or, organization, that they think is worthy of such a protest today!

Description: Students play the role as a member of Parliament who has serious concerns about the Intolerable Act. Instead, he or she argues that England should make immediate peace with the colonies by issuing a set of acts designed to reward them called the “Tolerable Acts.” Students must think of five acts that reward the colonists (such as Parliament erecting a statue of George Washington in front of Buckingham Palace).

Description: This writing prompts requires students to relate to the unfair punishments issued to the American colonists after the Boston Tea Party by detailing the most unfair punishment they've ever experienced, and the reasons why they were punished.

Description: This activity provides short descriptions of both congresses and then challenges students to find three similarities and three differences between the two.

Description: This resource includes a historical passage and seven multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback. In addition, when you click the "listen" button, you can hear the passage while it highlights the text. PASSAGE LENGTH: 305 Words; LEXILE: 1210

Description: This activity requires students to pen dialogues between William (Ben's loyalist son and royal governor of New Jersey) and Benjamin (a Patriot). Students should demonstrate their knowledge of Loyalist and Patriot sentiments through the dialogue.

Description: This activity challenges students to explore the figurative vs literal language from Thomas Paine's The Crisis and to ultimately illustrate two versions of the "summer soldier" and "sunshine patriot."

Description: This American Revolution/Revolutionary War parody on the Declaration of Independence require students to fix the spelling, grammar, and punctuation of the "rough" draft of Thomas Jefferson's declaration.

Description: This writing prompt requires students to understand the concept of unalienable rights and then to form a persuasive essay on whether recess is a right or privilege that teachers should be able to take away.

Description: This American Revolution/Revolutionary War activity tells the story of the iconic John Hancock signature on the Declaration of Independence and then challenges students to come up with their own, creative signature.

Description: This fun story-writing prompt tells the story of a Philadelphia man who found an original copy of the Declaration of Independence behind an old painting that he bought for $4.00. The prompt challenges students to tell a similar tale of how they find a valuable historical artifact in an improbable place.

Description: This activity describes the Patriot "moral victory" at Trenton and prompts students to write about a different moral victory they've experienced, or, can identify from sports, literature, or movies.

Description: This fun activities allows students to have a bit of fun with Leutze's famous depiction of Washington crossing the icy Delaware River in 1776.

Description: This activity requires students to understand how the Battle of Saratoga was the turning point in the war and to think of explain turning points in their own lives, in sports, or in the lives of literary characters.

Description: This activity requires students to play the role of a soldier camped during the dreadful winter of 1777-78 at Valley Forge. Students must use their knowledge of the conditions and morale at Valley Forge to pen a letter to a friend or family member describing the misery.

Description: Food options were extremely limited at Valley Forge an included little more than firecake, hardtack, and salt beef or pork. This activity requires students to create a menu featuring Valley Forge options for visitors to the park who want an "authentic" experience.

Description: This fun activity challenges students to create a static social media page about their favorite revolutionary figure. George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, Abigail Adams.

Description: This social studies activity requires students to compare Benedict Arnold to their favorite antagonist from literature or the movies through written expression and drawing.

Description: This prompt requires students to examine the life of Benedict Arnold and to write a letter than attempts to redeem him in American history. The prompt ENCOURAGES students to use hyperbole, perspective, and to downplay facts not favorable to Arnold in this argument. Use the Benedict Arnold biography for background information on the steps that led Arnold to reason.

Description: This activity requires students to examine the famous Paul Revere hyperbolic engraving depicting the Boston Massacre before the Revolutionary War. How was Paul Revere’s depiction of the Boston Massacre different from what really happened?

Description: This American Revolution/Revolutionary War/French and Indian War activity explains the centuries-old rivalry between England and France that shaped America's early history and then challenges students to write about a rivalry in their life, or, in sports, movies, or literature.

Description: This activity requires students to decode the secret message by organizing events of the American Revolution into their correct time periods. Challenging!

Description: This prompt outlines describes the concept of the underdog and how the Americans were underdogs during the Revolutionary War. Students must write about a time when they were the underdog, or, about a character in literature, movies, or sports, that won as the underdog.