war+of+1812+child+story


 * 1)  is going to create an children's story about ............ that will: **__The war of 1812 that will inform the reader about the war of 1812 and how the U.S. invented the star spangle banner.__**
 * 2) My children's story will solve the following problem: **__How the americans beat the british when they were completly clueless.__**
 * 3) My audience will experience my story through the eyes of: **__A character eyes.__**
 * 4) My children's story will have the following key historical events: **__Why the americans won the war and how they beat the british when they didnt even see it coming.__**
 * 5) My children's story will have the following key historical characters: **__President Jefferson, James Madison, and tecumseh, the shawnee cheif.__**
 * 6) My children's story will have the following key historically important concrete objects: **__The american flag, the ships they traveled in, the weapons, and the many treaties they signed in the course of the war.__**
 * 7) My children's story will make the audience feel the following emotions: **__Excitment, anger, agression, and sadness.__**
 * 8) My children's story will be credible because I will support it with the following sources: **__My social studies book, internet__**

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.

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Writing 1. france and british war 2. france and british imports from the U.S. 3) british needed more troops 4) the embargo act 5) the non-intercourse act 6) british treaty nobody signed. 7) tecumseh, a shawnee cheif 8) tecumseh's dream 9) tecumseh traveling south 10) battle of tipppecanoe 11) the impact it had on tecumseh's dream 12) war hawks 13) the opposition's point of view 14) the president