What if the People of the American Revolution Were on Social Media?

Description

What if People of the American Revolution Were on Social Media? challenges students to create social media profiles and posts for 63 famous people from the period of the American Revolution, including individuals fighting for and against independence. They need to use their imagination and independent research to fill out personal information about each individual as well as his or her family, friends, acquaintances, jobs, education, and interests. Then they are challenged to write ten posts the person could have posted and illustrate five of them as though they were shared in image or video format. They can also draw pictures to represent friends and acquaintances. Seven pages are included for each individual. The entire unit can be printed, or you can print only the men and women students are studying. A set of blank worksheets are also included for any scientist being studied that is not included. 455 pages total.

People of the American Revolution in this unit are Abigail Adams, John Adams, Samuel Adams, Ethan Allen, Benedict Arnold, Crispus Attucks, Benjamin Banneker, Joseph Brant, John Burgoyne, Aaron Burr, George Rogers Clark, George Clinton, Charles Cornwallis, William Dawes, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Gage, Bernardo de Gálvez, Horatio Gates, George III, Nathanael Greene, Nathan Hale, Alexander Hamilton, Elizabeth Hamilton, John Hancock, Lemuel Haynes, Patrick Henry, Francis Hopkinson, William Howe, John Jay, Thomas Jefferson, John Paul Jones, Tadeusz Kosciuszko, James Armistead Lafayette, Marquis de Lafayette, Francis Lightfoot Lee, Richard Henry Lee, Robert Livingston, James Madison, Francis Marion, George Mason, James Monroe, Daniel Morgan, Gouverneur Morris, William Moultrie, James Otis, Thomas Paine, Molly Pitcher, Rufus Putnam, Peyton Randolph, Paul Revere, Betsy Ross, Haym Salomon, Deborah Sampson, John Sevier, Daniel Shays, Roger Sherman, Baron von Steuben, Banastre Tarleton, Mercy Otis Warren, George Washington, Martha Washington, Phillis Wheatley, and George Wythe.