Curriculum Guide and Lesson Plans
Isaiah Thomas -
Patriot Printer
is an educational program that includes both an in-school theatrical
presentation and a curriculum guide containing facsimiles of primary
source historic document, background essays, and lesson plans developed by
classroom teachers.
We have designed this program to be a three- to five- day unit, including
the in-school performance. The lesson plans a divided into three levels:
Basic (5th grade), Moderate (8th grade), and Advanced (11th grade).
However, you may wish to mix and match these plans, depending upon the
cognitive abilities of your own students.
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Basic Level
Lesson Plans |
Moderate Level
Lesson Plans |
Advanced Level
Lesson Plans |
Day 1-
Introduction |
What's the Oldest Thing in Your House? |
The Life and Times of Isaiah Thomas |
Discovering Isaiah Thomas |
| Day 2- Introduction |
Performance of Isaiah Thomas -
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Performance of Isaiah Thomas -
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Performance of Isaiah Thomas -
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| Day 3- Follow-up activity |
The Apprenticeship of Isaiah Thomas |
Stamps and Bullets: the American Revolution |
The Revolutionary War on Trial |
| Day 4- Follow-up activity |
Dateline: Thursday, May 4, 1775 |
Pressing the Point, or Wheels, Keels, and Words |
Dispatches from the Past |
| Day 5- Follow-up activity |
Reading and Writing 18th Century Style |
Lessons from the Past: Reading and Writing |
Time Travel: Transportation and Communication Then and Now
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You will find that this guide contains much additional material that you
are free to use in many other ways.
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