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Do Now (U3W16L16) Team:____________________________

Battle of LexingtonDirections: Analyze and annotate the images below, use the questions below to guide your annotations.

1. ** What do you see in Image 1 (top)? What do you see in Image 2 (bottom)?

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2. ** What evidence does each image provide about what happened at the Battle of Lexington?

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3. How are the images similar? How are they different?

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Classwork (U3W16L16) Team:____________________________

Battle of LexingtonFocus: This battle was a chaotic event, and there are many conflicting accounts of what took place. Today we will be exploring two documents in order to debate the question: What happened at the Battle of Lexington? Who fired the first shot?

Activity #1: Break down the Prompt

Directions: Read, annotate and rewrite today’s inquiry prompt in your own words. Then record the historical thinking skill and annotation focus. Be sure to circle the key word that reveals the HTS.

Prompt: What really happened at the Battle of Lexington?Historical Thinking Skill: Annotation Focus:

** Initial Hypothesis: What really happened at the Battle of Lexington?

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Activity # 2: Close Read Round #1

Directions: Carefully read the following primary source using Four Corners. Paraphrase any lines that you find challenging.

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Source: Entry for April 19, 1775, from the diary of Lieutenant John Barker, an officer in the British army.

19th. At 2 o’clock we began our march by wading through a very long ford up to our middles. After going a few miles we took three of four people who were going off to give intelligence. About 5 miles on this side of a town called Lexington, which lay in our road, we heard there were some hundreds of people collected together intending to oppose us. At 5 o’clock we arrived there and saw a number of people, I believe between 200 and 300, formed in a common in the middle of the town. We still continued advancing, keeping prepared against an attack though without intending to attack them. But on our coming near them they fired one or two shots, upon which our men without any orders, rushed in upon them, fired and put them to flight. We then formed on the Common, but with some difficulty, the men were so wild they could hear no orders; we waited a considerable time there, and at length proceeded on our way to Concord.

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EVERYBODY WRITES DISCUSSION TRACKER

Everybody Writes #1: According to Barker, what happened at the Battle of Lexington?

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Notes from Class Discussion

Everybody Re-Writes #1: According to Barker, what happened at the Battle of Lexington?

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Activity # 3: Close Read Round #2

Directions: Carefully read the following primary source using Four Corners. Paraphrase any lines that you find challenging.

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Source: Sworn statement by 34 minutemen on April 25, 1775, before three justices of the peace.

We Nathaniel Mulliken, Philip Russell, (Followed by the names of 32 other men present on Lexington Green on April 19, 1775)…All of lawful age, and inhabitants of Lexington in the County of Middlesex…do testify and declare, that on the nineteenth of April . . . . about five o’clock in the morning, hearing our drum beat, we proceeded towards the Green, and soon found that a large body of troops were marching towards us. Some of our company were coming to the Green, and others had reached it, at which time, the company began to disperse. While our backs were turned on the British troops, we were fired on by them, and a number of our men were instantly killed and wounded, not a gun was fired by any person in our company on the British soldiers to our knowledge before they fired on us, and continued firing until we had all made our escape.

Lexington, April 25, 1775.

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EVERYBODY WRITES DISCUSSION TRACKER

Everybody Writes #2: According to the minutemen, what happened at the Battle of Lexington?

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Everybody Re-Writes #2: According to the minutemen, what happened at the Battle of Lexington?

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Name: _________________________________ Date: ____________________________

Exit Ticket/Homework (U3W16L16) Team:____________________________

Battle of LexingtonDirections: Record your modified ANE response to the prompt below.

Prompt: What really happened at the Battle of Lexington?____________________________________________________________________________

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RubricA Answers question and shows how or why ______/2N Names historical term ______/2E Evidence (paraphrase text) ______/2

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