Alabama Social Studies SS24.6.8a
The Standard
- SS24.6.8
- Differentiate among the outcomes of major events and campaigns of the War for Independence, including the northern, middle, southern, and western theaters.
Explain how the War for Independence created hardship and required sacrifice by colonists on the home front as well as by soldiers.
2024 Alabama Course of Study: Social Studies
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students identify hardships soldiers faced, such as hunger, cold, and injury. They explain how shortages and lost income affected people at home. They name something each group gave up because of the war.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student can explain why a soldier might lack shoes or pay and why a family might run short of flour. They connect both problems to the war and describe the sacrifice each person made.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may think only soldiers faced hardship. They may assume every sacrifice was voluntary or that all colonists supported independence.
How to Assess It
- Exit ticket: Describe one hardship for a soldier and one for a person at home. For each, explain what the person gave up and how the war caused it.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs paper cards for flour, cloth, shoes, and candles; remove flour and shoes for army supplies, then list household trade-offs.
Write two diary lines, one from a hungry soldier and one from a farmer asked to supply grain to the army.
Sort slips labeled cold camp, missing shoes, disrupted harvest, higher flour prices, and delayed pay into soldier, home, or both.
Compare an empty grocery shelf after a storm with a wartime flour shortage; ask what families do when supplies run low.
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