Texas TEKS 5.2.B
The Standard
identify the Founding Fathers and Patriot heroes, including John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, the Sons of Liberty, and George Washington, and their motivations and contributions during the revolutionary period
Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills for Social Studies
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students connect John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, and the Sons of Liberty to specific actions during the Revolution. They explain what each hoped to achieve and how each supported independence.
What Mastery Looks Like
- Students can match each person or group to an accurate contribution, such as diplomacy, writing, protest, political leadership, or military command. They can explain motivations using evidence from a short source or event.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may claim Washington wrote the Declaration of Independence or that Franklin served as president. They may treat the Sons of Liberty as one person or assume every leader contributed in the same way.
How to Assess It
- Give students five names and five contribution cards to match. Then ask them to choose one match and explain that figure's motivation in two sentences.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give groups portrait, event, motivation, and contribution cards to sort into five accurate sets.
Ask students to write which leader or group had the greatest effect on independence and support the claim with two facts.
Play a Who Am I game using clues about protests, diplomacy, writing, political leadership, and military command.
Examine a photo of a local civic monument and compare how communities honor public contributions today with Revolutionary era heroes.
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