SI+Am.+Rev.+Assignment

**Project Assignment - War and Waterways - CREC-TAH Summer Institute 2010**

Your culminating activity for this year's Summer Institute is to develop a lesson plan/plans based on one of the six selected topics outlined below. (You may also select to work on a topic of your own choosing, as long as it is closely related to the materials we have covered, and incorproates the map, primary sources and online requirements outlined below. Some of the topics you may choose from will be familiar, as they are featured aspects of American History. All were selected because they illuminate particularly important aspects of the history of colonial warfare in the Hudson/Champlain valley Region, and because they offer extraordinary sources for you to work with.

Your work will be challenging. You are asked to take on the historian's role of reading, assessing, synthesizing, and selecting the themes and materials yo u will use from a range of sources, and then organizing them into an engaging age-appropriate lesson for your students. It is expected that you will seek additional materials (online or text-based) to supplement the materials provided. In addition to meeting the specific criteria as outlined in the rubric, we ask that your assignment incorporates each of the following: 1) a map activity; 2) a primary source activity; and a related online reference. The six topics you will be asked to select from are:

This often forgotten battle of the French and Indian War, was of great consequence not only for that war, but for the War for Independence. It led to the construction of Fort Ticonderoga, Fort Edward and Fort William Henry, all key strategic locations in the War for independence. It demonstrated Connecticut’s military importance, while underscoring the intra-colonial competition and feuds among military leaders that were pervasive aspects of both the French and Indian war and the American Revolution. || All but forgotten, this leading Connecticut general of the French and Indian Wars served in every major campaign of the Hudson River/Champlain campaign. The major strategic fort at “the Great carrying place” was originally named after him before being changed to Fort Edward. Admired by his troops and honored by his colony, Phineas Lyman underscores Connecticut’s military importance, even as he represents the pervasive inter-colonial feuding and tensions between crown and colonial soldiers which foreshadowed the division of the American Revolution. || What was it like for Connecticut soldiers to go to war in the Hudson Valley. Two remarkable sets of primary sources with which we will be working today, offer us a unique opportunity to see and experience going to war from the perspective of the ordinary soldier. || No site on the North American continent has seen warfare as often and in as concentrated a period as the site you will see tomorrow. Because of its strategic location as the “key to the continent,” this fort was under attack no fewer than five times in two decades. Its bloody history is a central part of the North American experience. || One of the main reason’s for the failure of George III’s explicit effort to “brutalize the war” in America through unleashing the western Indians on rebellious subjects was the death of this woman. Her story, revealed through newspaper accounts and letters between generals, tells us much about the politics of warfare and propaganda of the American Revolution. || by Richard Ketchum || Seen through a closer lens, this turning point in American history becomes a tale of struggles from fort to fort over the whole Hudson river valley. The turnning point of the revolution – which we see through the eyes of a Connecticut soldier who witnessed it - was not a single event, but a series of them. || by Richard Ketchum ||
 * __**1) The Battle for Lake George**__
 * [[file:Lyman & the Lake George Controversy.pdf]] ||
 * [[file: Claus Short Report on Battle of Lake George 1755.pdf]] ||
 * [[file:General Phineas Lyman Letters.pdf]] ||
 * [|A Prospective Plan] of the Battle Fought for Lake George ||
 * **2) Phineas Lyman, Connecticut's Forgotten General**
 * [[file:General Phineas Lyman Letters.pdf]] ||
 * [|A Prospective Plan] of the Battle Fought for Lake George ||
 * __**3) The Life of a Connecticut Soldier**__
 * [[file:Luke Gridley Diary Assignment.doc]] ||
 * [[file:Bolton Letters and Transcripts 1757 1758OPT .pdf]] ||
 * **__4) Ticonderoga: The KEY to the Continent__**
 * [[file:Ticonderoga Timeline.docx]] ||
 * [[file:Fall of TIconderoga 1775.pdf]] ||
 * [[file:Fall of Ticonderoga 1777.pdf]] ||
 * [[file:The AMerican Siege of Ticonderoga 1777.pdf]] ||
 * **5) The Jane McGrae Atrocity**
 * [[file:Primary Sourcews Jenny McCrae.pdf]] ||
 * [|Saratoga: Turning Point ofAmerica's Revolutionary War]
 * **6) The Saratoga Campaign**
 * [[file:1777 The Saratoga Campaign .pdf]] ||
 * [[file:Boardman, Burgoynes Surrender.pdf]] ||
 * [|Saratoga: Turning Point ofAmerica's Revolutionary War]

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