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Essential Question(EQ): When is it necessary to fight? (What is worth dying for?)
Problem:The day is April 17, 1775. 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?

Reasons that the Revoutionary War started: [|The Boston Massacre] Boston Tea Party Intolerable Act Stamp Act

** A M E R I C A N R E V O L U T I O ** **N** http://www.harlingen.isd.tenet.edu/coakhist/amrev.htm**

I would tell the minutemen to just shot and risk our lives because if we just run home to our families then they will think we are babies and don't want to fight because we are afraid of them. Then every year they will just coming back to see if want to fight or not and if you are to afraid then they will take over Boston for good, and every one will have to be slaves or work for the red coats. also you should fight because if you beat them they will be too afraid to come back and fight so they will leave Boston alone and will let you have it. You should risk your lives and mine because of all of the things they did in the past to you like the Boston Massacre. The Boston Massacre happened right in front of the Custom House. Someone started ringing the church bells to bring more colonist to the snene to help. On e of the red coats shot his musket into the crowd of colonits and then more and more shots came firing. The red coats killed alot of the colonists. that is why we should fight. We should fight because about the Boston Tea Party. When you had to pay all of those levies and taxes. Then when you didnt want to pay for taxes they made you pay for imported tea. Then we did the right thing to throw it all out of the boat so we didnt have to pay for it anymore. Remember after the Boston Tea Party when the Intolerable Act came and passed laws that punished us when we dumped all of the tea out of all the boats. Then they closed all of the harbors in Mass.. And rememeber when the british made all prices of newpaper and taxes go up in the Stamp Act.