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RG is going to create a children's story about the War of 1812 that will: interest the reader

My children's story will solve the following problem: The War of 1812

My children's story will have the following key historical events: Who won the war, the Star Spangled Banner, turning points in the war

My children's story will have the following key historical characters: Francis Scott Key, The Warhawks,

My children's story will have the following key historically important concrete objects: ships, cannons, guns

My children's story will make the audience feel the following emotions: proudness, humor

My children's story will be credible because I will support it with the following sources: 1812 movie

Brainstorm -- write what each page will be about and some of the action occuring in it....then write a brief description of the picture that you will include for that page of writing. This is just the rough draft! Or, use a story board.

Intro - pg 1 - this is a book abut the war of 1812 and how it affected each country.

Britain and France at War- pg 2 - Britain and France were at war (2 ships shooting at each other)

Britain and France decision about imports from USA - pg 3 british + french decided to win the war, they needed to stop the US from trading with each other - ( people stealing imports from a U.S ship)

Impressment -pg 4 - British would capture people and make them work for the british. ( people making deserters work for them)

Chesapeake incident - pg 5 - The British forcefully took a US ship when they refused to surrender(british shooting at a U.S ship )

Embargo Act - pg 6 - embargo act = stop trade w/ britain(U.S people signing the Embargo Act)

Did the Embargo act work? - pg 7 - US lost money, not britain ( poor people talking about the embargo act)

Why did British help Indian Nations? - pg 8 - to keep the US out of the indian land so they cant expand( British talking to indians to not let the US in their land)

Who was Tecumseh? pg 9 - Indian leader + warrior (indian surrounded by other indians)

What was his dream? pg 10 - Peace w/ all indians (indians shaking hands)

Battle of Tippecanoe- Pg 11 - US fought indians ( indians fighting with U.S)

Impact on Tippecanoe on Tecumseh's Dream pg 12 - Ruined his dream of peace (Tecumseh upset)

War Hawks Point-of-View pg 13 - thought we should be at war w/ brit. ( Warhawks with a document that declares war)

The opposition's point-of-view - pg 14 - Thought we should make peace (people arguing with warhawks about declaring war)

The President, the reasons, the vote - pg 15- Madison declared war b/c Britain ignored their neutrality in the war w/ france( james madison talking to people about declaring war)

US at beginning of war compared to Britain - 16 - US - unprepared- no navy Britain- largest navy in the world ( us as pirates and british military)

Privateers - 17 - citezens with ships became pirates (U.S telling people to be pirates)

Early Blunders 1 - 18 - US tried to invade canada and lost a lot of their resources-(US without supplies)

Early Blunders 2 - 19 - british invade america and almost reached washington ( map of US w/ route to wahsington

Washington, D.C. 1 - 20 - people fled from D.C as it was burned by british (burning white house)

Washington, D.C 2 - 21 - mrs. madison was last to leave ( her on a cart leaving when everybody was gone)

Baltimore -22 - baltimore was prepared to fight british - (people preparing to fight)

Ft McHenry- 23 - british bombarded mchenry from their ships ( ships firing at fort mchenry)

Francis Scott Key- 24- francis scott key watched the battle from a ship (Francis on a ship watching the battle)

conclusion -25 british retreated ( british leaving and US cheering)

Francis Scott Key 26 -wrote SSB and it became National Anthem (key writing SSB)

End of the war - peace treaty signed and war ended ( people happy)

Star Spangled Banner