For this lesson, we are going to be taking a look at some male Americans that earned the title of "hero" according to a lot of people. There will be some assignments accompanying these heroes, which you will gradually progress through.
The goals for this lesson are:
The goals for this lesson are:
- The student can name three prominent members of the founding fathers and explain why they are seen as heroes
- The student can make sentences that are set in the past.
"THe Founding fathers"
Let's do a warm up before the actual content starts. Click the warm-up button below.
The term Founding Fathers of the United States of America refers broadly to those individuals of the Thirteen British Colonies in North America who led the American Revolution against the authority of the British Crown and established the United States of America. It is also used more narrowly, referring specifically to those who either signed the Declaration of Independence in 1776 or who were delegates to the 1787 Constitutional Convention and took part in drafting the proposed Constitution of the United States.
We are going to look at three specific characters that were part of this. Click the buttons below to go to the corresponding pages. Write down major events that happened in each of these men's lives on a notepad. You will need this for an assignment later.
We are going to look at three specific characters that were part of this. Click the buttons below to go to the corresponding pages. Write down major events that happened in each of these men's lives on a notepad. You will need this for an assignment later.
Once you are done reading about these three individuals, come back to this page and click the button below to start a quiz.
This quiz will test how well you've read the texts and remembered what was on the pages. The quiz contains 5 questions.
This quiz will test how well you've read the texts and remembered what was on the pages. The quiz contains 5 questions.
The big thing you will have noticed from the video in the warm up is that everthing that is mentioned is in the past. The texts you will have read about the founding fathers will have done the same. The sentence structure that is often used to give form to this is called the Past Simple. Lets find out how this works.
Remember those notes you took of these men before? Let's see if you can put them in past tense sentences. Click the button below to go to the assignment.