Social Studies Grade 4 Week 2 (August 24-28, 2020)

Monday

Step 1: Students will view a 3-minute video, The Sons of Liberty, available through Safari Montage. Students can access the video using the OR Code or link below.

Sons of Liberty

https://bit.ly/4thgrwk2

Note to parent: Watch-Think-Write is a proven strategy for viewing a video which is similar to Read-Think- Write when reading a story. While students watch the video, encourage them to pause the video and think about what they heard or learned. The activity in Step 2 asks students to think about the important people they learn about in the video.

Step 2: Students will complete the short video comprehension graphic organizer below.

Video Comprehension: Sons of Liberty

1. Patrick Henry was called the Champion of Liberty. He responded to the Stamp Act with the Virginia Resolve. Why did he think that the British Parliament was not allowed to tax colonists?

2. Samuel Adams, from Massachusetts, and his political friends found a group called the Sons of Liberty. What did the Sons of Liberty want to do?

Note to parent: It is not important for students to know precisely who Patrick Henry is; however, Henry was a politician, lawyer, and one of the leading figures in the revolutionary movement. He is famous for his “give me liberty or give me death” speech. He presented the Virginia Resolves in which he argued that colonists had privileges and only the General Assembly had the power to tax colonists.

Samuel Adams lived in Boston, Massachusetts and strongly believed that leaders had to promote virtue and values. Later becoming the governor of Massachusetts, he was instrumental in the Boston Massacre. The Sons of Liberty were resistant to taxes and urged merchants to boycott British goods.

Step 3: Students will review additional information on the Sons of Liberty.

Information below is taken from: https://www.ducksters.com/history/american_revolution/sons_of_liberty.php

Let’s Find Out More! Who were they? What did they do? How did they get their name? The Sons of Liberty was a The first major action of the The name comes from a speech secret political organization in Sons of Liberty was to protest made in the British Parliament the American Colonies that the Stamp Act. They took direct by Irishman Isaac Barre. He protested against British taxes action by harassing the stamp referred to the American and laws before the American tax distributors who worked for colonists as "sons of liberty" Revolution. By the time the the British government. The when arguing against the revolution began, there were distributors became so scared passage of the Stamp Act. chapters of the Sons of Liberty of the Sons of Liberty that many in all thirteen colonies. of them quit their jobs. They also gathered in large groups and protested in the streets. Their protests worked and the tax was soon repealed by the British government.

Step 4: Students will respond the reflection question. Do you think the Sons of Liberty should be considered heroes? Why or why not?