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TES Global

Blendspace: Persuasive Writing: Patriots or Loyalist

For Students 9th - 10th
A seven-part learning module on persuasive writing. The first three links are to videos on how to write a persuasive piece. The remaining links lead to three videos and slideshow contain information about the Patriots and Loyalists to...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Revolutionary War Patriots and Loyalists

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students are assigned a prominent man or woman of the American Revolutionary War. The students will write a two-page report, create a poster person, and then present their research to the class in first person.
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Michigan State University

Michigan State University: American Revolution: Patriotism/quaker Loyalism in a Pennsylvania Family

For Students 9th - 10th
National Humanities Center provides an essay based on the correspondence of a Quaker Family in colonial Pennsylvania.
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US National Archives

Docsteach: Road to Revolution: Patriotism or Treason?

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students will analyze the causes of the American Revolution and examine them from various points of view. Perspectives include the Sons of Liberty, loyalists living in the colonies, patriots, and British citizens living in England.
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Ducksters

Ducksters: Quiz: Patriots and Loyalists for Kids

For Students 1st - 9th
History Questions: Patriots and Loyalists Quiz, Test, and WebQuest
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Ducksters

Ducksters: American Revolution for Kids: Patriots and Loyalists

For Students 1st - 9th
Kids learn about Patriots and Loyalists during the Revolutionary War. One side wanted independence while the other wanted to remain part of Britain.
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Other

Mission Us: Mission 1: For Crown or Colony?

For Students 3rd - 8th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Interactive game puts players in the shoes of Nat Wheeler, a printer's apprentice in 1770 Boston. They encounter both Patriots and Loyalists, and when rising tensions result in the Boston Massacre, they...
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Patriots vs Loyalists

For Teachers 6th - 9th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart covers everything from The Boston Massacre to the Boston Tea Party and even more. It also provides an assessment.
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Varsity Tutors

Varsity Tutors: Archiving Early America: The Battle of King's Mountain

For Students 9th - 10th
An exciting account of the stirring events of the battle between Loyalists and Patriot backwoodsmen at the Battle of King's Mountain in October 1780.
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Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian Source: Clashing Views During the Colonial Period

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students will use primary documents to evaluate a statement concerning radical views of the colonial revolutionaries and the conservative philosophy of the loyalist colonists.
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Wikimedia

Wikipedia: American Revolutionary War

For Students 9th - 10th
This article on the American Revolutionary War looks at its causes, the phases of the war, naval warfare, the involvement of other countries, the Treaty of Paris, the different groups of combatants, and the impact of the war.
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: The Power of Points of View

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Students use alternate points of view to demonstrate their understanding of the Revolutionary War by writing one piece from the point of view of a Patriot, and another piece from the point of view of a Loyalist.
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PBS

Africans in America: Revolution: Significance of Dunmore's Proclamation

For Students 9th - 10th
A brief interview with Betty Wood, professor of history, on the significance of Dunmore's Proclamation to Loyalist plantation owners, Patriot plantation owners, and, in particular, the slaves themselves. From PBS.
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: American Revolution Fact Finding Game

For Teachers 6th - 9th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart is an exciting group activity you can use to review the Revolutionary War while incorporating math.
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University of Michigan

University of Michigan: Spy Letters of the American Revolution

For Students 9th - 10th
A wonderful resource with letters, stories, people, and timelines of spies for the Loyalists and the Patriots during the American Revolution.
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National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: America in Class: American Revolution as Civil War

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A lesson where young scholars examine the journal of a young Scottish woman, Janet Schaw, visiting North Carolina in 1775. She writes of her experiences observing the tensions and rivalries in the Cape Fear River area that pitted...
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Huntington Library

Huntington Library: Causes of American Revolution: Soldiers and Civilians at War

For Teachers 5th
In this lesson, 5th graders look at causes and consequences of the American Revolution, at nations and individuals that impacted the outcome, at the roles women played, and at how the war affected families, economics, and the...
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University of Groningen

American History: Outlines: The Political Pamphlet: Thomas Paine (1737 1809)

For Students 9th - 10th
The passion of Revolutionary literature is found in pamphlets, the most popular form of political literature of the day. Over 2,000 pamphlets were published during the Revolution. The pamphlets thrilled patriots and threatened loyalists;...
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A&E Television

History.com: How the South Helped Win the American Revolution

For Students 9th - 10th
British commanders attempted to reverse their floundering fortunes by launching a campaign in the South. There the British would find not just crops such as tobacco, rice and indigo that were vital to their economy, but stronger Loyalist...
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Ducksters

Ducksters: American Revolution for Kids: Glossary and Terms

For Students 1st - 9th
Kids learn the Glossary and Terms from the Revolutionary War including patriot, loyalist, colony, volley, whig, tory, and more.

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