Profiling Patriots

          Today, my group and I finalized our last activity for our unit plan on 13 Colonies, One Country. Though we did not get to actually implement this activity, it was geared towards the second grade class that we did our three lessons for during fieldwork. 

          This activity was designed to strengthen the students understanding of the people who were directly involved with the American Revolution: Paul Revere, George Washington, and Patrick Henry. The students would have been broken up into three groups, each getting assigned one of these three patriots. Before beginning the activity, we would have first gone over what the word Patriot means. 

Patriot: Colonists who wanted independence from Britain.

           Next, each group would have gone to their assigned tables, which would have biographies, a list of online resources, and reading passages about their patriot. Also on their table would be a Profiling Patriots template, where students would record all of the information that they found out about the patriot through their resources.

After 20-30 minutes, each group would present their findings to the rest of the class. By doing so, each student would get to learn more information about all three patriots. 

Overall, I think that the students would have really enjoyed this activity because they seemed to always be highly engaged when talking about any of the patriots. They would ask many questions and participate in all discussions about the patriots. I wish that we could have taught this activity, but there was not enough time. Regardless, this is definitely something that I would consider using in my classroom in the future.