Mrs. Mazloom

Grade 5

Christopher Columbus School

Utica City School District

mmazloom@uticaschools.org

The French and Indian War left Britain in need of money to pay their debts. They decided to try to extract more money from the American Colonies. The Stamp Act, and the Townshend Act were both attempts by the British to extract money from the colonies. These taxes were met by hostile reactions from the colonists, and were ultimately repealed by Britain, except for the tax on tea. Furthermore, the Tea Act created a monopoly for the East India Company. Tensions between the British and the Colonists had been rising and becoming more violent since the Boston Massacre. In 1774, members of the group the Sons of Liberty dumped 90,000 pounds of Tea into Boston Harbor. This infuriated the British, and as a punishment they passed what became known as the Intolerable Acts.

You will use the AHPPA steps to evaluate the Intolerable Acts from the either the view of a member of the British Parliament, or a member of the Sons of Liberty. Your group will create an illustrated timeline listing the events that have led to the Intolerable Acts. Your timeline will include at least four illustrations of scenes from the events on your timeline, with a short description of each scene. Additionally, your group will create a letter to the editor either persuading to repeal or retain the Intolerable Acts. Finally, your group will create a diary entry written from the point of view of a Member of Parliament or the Sons of Liberty, making predictions of what may occur in the future based on recent events.

You will be part of a group of four students. You will be assigned to be either Member of Parliament or a Son of Liberty. Together the group will work to complete the worksheets on each step of the AHPPA model.

Step 1: Identify the Problem

Step 2: Gather the Evidence:

Step 3: Determine the Causes

Step 4: Evaluate the Policy

1. Once you are assigned a group, you will work with your group members to research your assigned person.

2. Use the APPA model Step 1 to identify the social problem facing your person.

3. Complete APPA Worksheet #1

4. Use APPA model Step 2 to further research the existence of your problem.

5. Complete APPA Worksheet #2

6. Use APPA model Step 3 to determine the causes of your social problem.

7. Complete APPA Worksheet #3

8. Use APPA model Step 4 evaluate whether the Fugitive slave act of 1850 was successful in addressing your problem.

9. Complete APPA Worksheet #4

10. Each member of your group should create an illustration that depicts an event in leading up to the Intolerable Acts. The illustrations should include the important events leading to the Intolerable Acts, such as the Stamp Act, the Townshend Acts, and the Boston Tea Party. Each illustration should have a short description of what the illustration depicts, as well as the date it occurred.

11. Your group must work together to write either the letter to the editor and the diary entry. The letter would be written from the perspective of the group you were assigned and use evidence to convince the reader to believe your point of view. The diary entry should again be written from the perspective of the group you were assigned, and would predictions on what may occur in the future based on recent events. For instance, both groups may believe that a war might result from rising tensions. However, they certainly would have different views on who would eventually end up the victor.

Conclusion

Congratulations! You have completed The American History Webquest on the Intolerable Acts. You have used the steps of the American Public Policy Analyst to analyze a problem in American history.

· US History.Org

· The Intolerable Acts

· The History Place : Prelude to the Revolution

· KidPort Reference : American Revolution

· Dear America : The Scrapbook of Abigail Jane Stewart

· The American Revolution

Christopher Columbus School

Intolerable Acts Webquest

Name: ________________________

Teacher: Mrs. Mazloom

Date : ___________________

Title of Work: ___________________

Criteria

Points

	1	2	3	4
Group uses the American History Public Policy Analyst	Group doesn't follow the steps of APPA	Group follows some of the steps of the APPA, worksheets partially complete	Group follows all of the APPA steps, but worksheets are not completed fully or are done incorrectly.	All APPA steps are complete and worksheets done correctly.	____
Group presented 4 illustrations depicting events leading to the Intolerable Acts	Illustrations either incomplete or not done.	Illustrations complete but are done poorly or are incorrectly.	All illustrations are complete, most are done neatly and depict the lives of either a slave and abolitionist.	4 illustrations are complete, neat and creative.	____
Captions to illustrations indicate what is occuring in the illustration	Illustrations do not have captions.	Some illustrations do not have captions. Many Grammar and spelling errors.	All illustrations have captions. Captions are well written with few spelling or grammar errors.	Captions are well written, clearly indicating what is occuring in the illustration. No grammar or spelling errors.	____
Letter to the Editor	Group did not product letter or news story.	Group produced a letter but it was poorly done or incomplete.	Group produced a letter or news story that persuaded the reader to their point of view. May include some spelling or grammar errors.	Group produced a letter that was extremely persuasive to their point of view. Few or no grammar and spelling errors.	____
Diary Entry	Group did not produce a diary entry.	Group produced a diary entry but it was poorly done or incomplete.	Group produced a diary entry that predicts what may happen in the future.	Group produced a diary entry that predicts what may happen in the future. Entry uses evidence for their predictions.	____
				Total---->	____

Teacher Comments:

Standards

Standard 1:   History of the United States and New York

Students will use a variety of intellectual skills to demonstrate their understanding of major ideas, eras, themes, developments, and turning points in the history of the United States and New York.