Revolutionary+WarDJ

= = =Title: Would you have fired the "Shot Heard Round the World?"  = = =

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 it is time to fight back! We should stand and fight because we already have suffered enough and we should get some payback. They have put tax on tea killed and injured many men on that horrible March 5th when the British killed our brothers and sisters and made us go through a lot of pain. We deserve our own country and its time we start fighting for it. Men like Samuel Adams and Paul Revere they know how to fight at the right situation of course. Do you think they would back down at a challenge like this they have been through the Boston Tea Party all because there was high taxes on tea and acted like rebels when they needed to because they thought it was the right choice. We didn't dress up as Indians for nothing. After all we've been through we just can't throw in the towel we have worked to hard to get our independence and we deserve it. We have one choice the right one or the wrong one and I believe the right one is to stand and fight it is better to die like a tiger than live like a coward. Why should we put more money in the kings pocket he's on the other side of the ocean and he has the indecency to put more taxes on the tea we love. We rebel for our country because we deserve as much freedom as those redcoats have. Why should they control our nation we should fight for what is ours. What do you say men!