Revolutionary+WarBOT

Essential Question(EQ): When is it necessary to fight? (What is worth dying for?)
Problem:The day is April 17, 1770. You stand with a group of minutemen across the Lexington Common prepared to stop the British Redcoat's advance. As you stand with your musket on your shoulder, you know all of the men are questioning whether or not they should fire and risk death, or if they should retreat back to the safety of their houses. You decide to step-up to the front and address the assembled Minutemen as the sounds of the Red Coats' drums come down the road announcing their imminent arrival. What do you tell the minutemen? Fight? Flee? Stand their ground? What is the evidence you provide them with to convince them that your directive is the path they should choose.

EQ=Is it necessary for you to fight? Is your evidence worth dying for?

We will start off the unit discussing what is worth fighting for right now in your life. We will then examine if it was necessary for the colonists to fight, and then finish the unit looking at some of the 21st Century situations that the USA will be in that will require the people of this country to decide, "When is it necessary to fight

__**SPEECH**__ Men, we should stay and fight for what we want. We have gone through difficult times. One thing we have been through is the Boston Massacre. We can all remember this horrible day, when five of our fellow citizens were killed and several were injured. The redcoats took fire with no warning and killed our people. All they were doing was throwing rocks and ice balls at the redcoats. Men, remember when the king raised our taxes on tea. I and probably even you were so furious when this happened. We shouldn't have paid for the taxes that the king made. He lives all the way in England ! We got our revenge back by dressing up as Indians and dumping the tea in the harbor. We didn't have to waste all that wonderful tea, but we did because of the king. He’s the one that made us have to dump the tea. These redcoats and their horrible king have ruined our lives. They think that they can just pick on us. No!!!! We are strong men and shouldn't be picked on by a king that lives all the way in England and get pushed around by his redcoats. This is our place where we are free, but these redcoats are stopping us from having our freedom. If you’re willing to stay and fight for your freedom and stop these redcoats from pushing us around any farther, step forward. If you’re not willing, then leave and flee to your family and watch us risk our lives for you. Now let’s go show these redcoats whose boss!