DNA: “Guesstimate” how many African-Americans

participated in the American Revolution, on both the British & American side combined.

African-American involvement in the Revolutionary War (PART 1)

Essential Questions: 1) What is the quality of

life for an enslaved person in Colonial America?

2) Would you risk running away from your family to join the military to gain your freedom?

Should We Stay or Should We Go?

• Lord Dunmore offers a Proclamation to African-Americans.– "declare freedom to the slaves."

• Should you join the British under Lord Dunmore’s Proclamation or should you remain with your master?

Possible Questions a Slave NEEDS To Ask:

• If I run to the British, who will I leave behind? What might happen to my family still with our owner?

• What might happen to slaves who are captured trying to reach Lord Dunmore?

• How will the British treat slaves who join their army?

• How do our present masters treat us?

Decisions

• Considering the implications of the British offer, the American cause for independence, and the role of family in your life, would you have stayed a slave or joined the British in 1775-1776?

– Responses?

STAYGO

Should We Stay or Should We Go?

Tardy Policy• When a student is tardy to class use the following procedure.

Students will be given three chances to make it to class on time.

• Consequences are as follows:– 3rd Tardy - Parent contact – 4th Tardy - Other teacher strategies– 5th Tardy - Office Referral

• This is the tardy policy for each semester.• *Late buses will be excused, but late parent drop-offs will not. -

This mean with the students come to your class for core 1 with a note from Holly they are tardy. On the third tardy you should call home. Most times the parents dropping them off late, don't even realize that there is a problem.

• You will have 5 minutes to complete the following once the bell rings: [ ] Take out your social studies folder and notebook from your backpack.[ ] If you have any “assignments due now,” please take this out and put it in

the homework basket in the front of the classroom.[ ] Write down today’s homework assignment in your agenda book (write

“none” if no homework is assigned).[ ] Write down any upcoming assignments, such as quizzes, projects, or tests,

in your agenda book. Include the due date too![ ] Read the AIM. This is what you should learn during today’s lesson. Be

aware of this![ ] Read the Do Now Activity (DNA) on the front projector screen and do what

it says. You will probably be writing the answer(s) down in your notebook. Be prepared to read your response(s) out loud if asked by your teacher.

[ ] Be ready to listen to your teacher and pay attention during class activities.- Thank you for choosing to be organized.

DNA: Daily Checklist

African-American involvement in the Revolutionary War.

(PART 2)Read & Listen

• Chorus:Our Black Founding Fathers we wasn't told 5,000 black soldiers died in the Revolutionary warOur Black Founding Fathers we wasn't toldShed blood for freedom, they enslaved us, what was it all for?Our Black Founding Fathers we wasn't told5,000 black soldiers died in the Revolutionary warOur Black Founding Fathers we wasn't toldShed blood for freedom, they enslaved us, what was it all for?

• Verse 1:We know about the Black Founding Fathers that's rightBut there's more to the story, Liberal racists would not likeCrispus Attucks the first Black Patriot to pay his dues, fighting British soldiers, yet he risked his life tooAttucks lived as a slave in strife, that's right, nonetheless, sacrificing his life, every day and nightThe first black casualty in the Boston Massacre, murdered by the British, Attucks died for his word to be heardPeter Salem a black man in 1776, fought with a vengeance in the Bunker Hill trenchesHe shot a British colonel dead, he murdered him, helped us gain our independence and you all ain't heard of him?

• VERSE 2:So pivotal, critical, this battle called Bunker Hill, America's freedom was born with Black Patriots killed, for realSalem was a hero, yes sir we need to learnSalem we thank you because for hero's we yearn as the world turnsGeorge Washington at the helm, Prince Whipple was there, to cross the Delaware, in the cold he was there to fight the despairChristmas was the night when our Army despaired, blacks fought to repair the scare and reverse the worst, they was there, yes sir5,000 Black Patriots all in all, they was standin’ tall, for the War of Independence, they the ones who took the fallThey fought for one reason and I'm gonna let ya'all know, they wanted to see us free, independent, they wanted to see us grow

• VERSE 3:With Lincoln on his side, a white hero came to townJohn Brown gave guns to blacks he knew the Civil War would be wonOur Black Founding Fathers, we was not told, millions of black soldiers fought in all the warsA Black Lt. Colonel Davis - Tuskegee Airmen, led hundreds of black pilots in flight, they fought to the end, to winSegregated these brave black pilots fought, to stop Adolph Hitler, they had to destroy his plotWashington said the firearm is the teeth of Liberty, when in the right hands, the right to bear arms to keep our race freeOur Black Founding Fathers we weren't told, 5000 black soldiers died in the revolutionary war

NEW Essential Questions:

1) How did African-Americans earn their freedom during the American Revolution?

2) Were they treated justly by the British and the Americans following the Revolution?

Directions:

• Partner-up!• Read the two page article African-Americans

and the American Revolution. Each of its 12 paragraphs is numbered. After reading each paragraph, write down its number beside the letter which best states its main idea.

• We will complete the 1st paragraph as a class and determine which answer sheet letter has the appropriate main idea.

Group Activity

• Obtaining the main idea from Social Studies reading sources with numerous details is challenging, but within your abilities.

• Work quietly and cooperatively!• Once completed, raise your hand. I will check

your answers. We will review and discuss the answers to the reading activity once everyone is finished.

Wrap-Up Discussion:

• Presenting your comparisons of African-Americans in the service of the British and Americans during the Revolution.– Were they treated in a just manner, did they earn

their liberty?– What should be done for the descendants of

those who were re-enslaved?