NAME: ___________________________________________	HB/IG: _______________________________	
DATE: February 13, 2006 – March 10, 2006 March 31, 2006	SUBJECT: Social Studies – American Revolution	

Objective-Questions	NJCCCS	Class Activities	Homework	Assessment	
•	What was it like to live during the Revolutionary War?
•	How did the American Revolution begin?
•	Who were the major American leaders of the Revolutionary War?
•	Who were the major foreign leaders of the Revolutionary War?	6.4, 3.1, 3.2, 3.4, 9.2	I/P-Create your own Revolutionary War Journal
•	choose a role
•	write introductory journal entry
I/P-Reflection: Winter 1776
I/P-Reflection: Meeting a leader of the war	A. 9/1/84-85
B. 9/2/86	Reflection Rubric, Journal Rubric	
•	What were the major events/battles of the American Revolution?
•	What do I want to know about the war?
•	Why was the American Revolution fought?	6.4, 3.1, 3.2, 3.4, 9.2	I/P-Reflection: Coming into contact with history
•	Two entries about events from the war
•	One will be based on an internet activity and the other will be based on a self-selected reading
I-Create cover for journal	C. 9/3/88
D. 9/4/89	Reflection Rubric, Journal Rubric, Review Game	

W=Whole Group
S=Small Group      
P=Peer to Peer
I=Independent	Notes:  
*For all homework assignments, the first number indicates a chapter, the second number indicates a lesson, and the third number indicates the corresponding page in the activity book (e.g. 9/1/84-85 refers to Chapter 9, Lesson 1, and pages 84-85 in the softcover activity book).	

Reflection Rubric

	1	2	3	4	
Content Accuracy	Almost all of the information is inaccurate	Some of the information is accurate	Most of the information is accurate	All information is accurate	
Audience	Does not keep the audience in mind	Keeps the audience in mind adequately	Keeps the audience in mind	Keep the audience in mind very well	
Details	Details are random or hit and miss	Details are not highly structured or are repetitious	Details are appropriate and varied	Details are effective, vivid and explicit	
Clarity and Neatness	Almost impossible to read and understand	Difficult to read and understand	Easy to understand and most elements are clear	Easy to understand and all elements are clear