American Revolution Unit Study Resources

I have just started to put together my children's Portfolios for this school year to prepare for our upcoming assessment meeting. In doing so, I noticed that I had never posted the list of resources that we used for the American Revolution Unit Study that we completed last semester.


We used two main resources for the "spine" of our study:

• Time Travelers The American Revolution - Home School in the Woods
• History Pockets: American Revolution

Additional Books:

• The Amazing Life of Benjamin Franklin by James Cross Giblin
• The Battles of Lexington & Concord by Lucia Raatma
• A Picture Book of Patrick Henry by David A. Adler
• Headlines from History: The Boston Massacre, Five Colonists Killed By British Soldiers by Allison Stark Draper
• A More Perfect Union: The Story of Our Constitution by Betsy and Giulio Maestro
• The New Americans:Colonial Times: 1620-1689 (The American Story) by Betsy Maestro and Giulio Maestro

DVDs

• The American Revolution for Students, The Revolutionary War 1776-1783
• American History for Children: American Independence
• Inventors of the World – Benjamin Franklin
• Will You Sign Here, John Hancock by Jean Fritz
• The American Revolution for Students, Declaring Independence, 1774-1776, Schlessinger Media
• Great Americans for Children, Thomas Jefferson, Schlessinger Media
  

Independent Reading

• Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes (for my 7th grader)
• George Washington's Socks by Elvira Woodruff (for my 5th grader)
• Revolutionary War on Wednesday by Mary Pope Osborne (for my 3rd grader)
• Thanksgiving on Thursday by Mary Pope Osborn (for my 3rd grader)