Grade 5 Lesson at a Glance: Chapter 11, Lesson 3

Houghton Mifflin Social Studies
America Will Be

Lesson at a Glance
Chapter 11, Lesson 3: Building a New Society (pp. 284-287)

The Big Idea
Framework Concept: Change After the Revolution, life was very different for women, blacks, Loyalists, and Indians.

Discuss how war often brings change to a society (people are taking sides and doing jobs that they would not do during peace). Help students come up with two examples of how womens' lives were different during the war. Then ask students to list groups of people who were on the British side in the American Revolution -- Iroquois Indians, some slaves, and Loyalists. Ask students how they think the Patriots felt about each of these groups of people. Discuss how they think these feelings might affect how these groups are treated after the war.

Lesson Outline
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Check for Understanding

Ask students to think about what it would be like to be one of the following individuals: a colonial woman who stayed behind and managed a business or farm, a Tory innkeeper, a slave who fought for the British, or an Iroquois Indian. Ask them to write a journal entry from the person's viewpoint describing what happened to him or her after the war.
Ask students to think about the ideas presented in Pennsylvania's new constitution. Have them create a "Before" and "After" picture of how the laws in the new constitution affected life for specific individuals in the new state, such as men who did not own land.

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