Web Quest Lesson Plan

Introduction

In this unit, students have explored the Big Question: What's Worth Fighting For, What's Not? In this lesson, students will learn about two rights people have fought for and won. The first right is civil rights. The second right is America's independence from Britain.

Lesson Description

Students will read a selected passage and view photographs from Powerful Days in Black and White <http://www.kodak.com/US/en/corp/features/moore/aboutCharlesMoore.shtml>. They will then read selected letters and passages from Bunker Hill <www.masshist.org/bh/accounts.html>. Students will write a journal entry, reflecting on one of the websites.

Instructional Objectives

1. Students will use the Internet as a resource to learn how photographs can communicate important messages.
2. Students will use the Internet as a resource for viewing primary sources from the American Revolution.
3. Students will write a journal entry based on what they have read.

Student Web Activity Sample Journal Entry

     As I read the letters written by the people who experienced the Battle of Bunker Hill, I could not believe the hardships they had to deal with. The British army was clearly very "mighty," as one man put it, and the American army did not have enough supplies. It took a very long time for letters to get from one person to another. One soldier wrote that he didn't even know if his letter would arrive at all. A few of the letters mentioned friends who died and the fear the soldiers felt. Yet men still signed up to fight for their country. They thought fighting for independence was worth losing their lives.
After reading the letters, it is hard for me to think of a cause that I feel that strongly about. I suppose anything that involves my family or a close friend being harmed is worth fighting for. I know this isn't as big as fighting for liberty and freedom, but the important people in my life are worth fighting for.