This document provides directions for creating a foldable project to communicate understanding of key terms, people, and events from the American Revolutionary War. The foldable includes sections for key terms, people, and a timeline of events. Learners are instructed to follow an interactive slideshow, take notes in the corresponding boxes, and draw and color illustrations for each term, person, and event without copying images directly. The inside of the foldable is organized with key terms at the top and people at the bottom.

2. FOLDABLE PROJECT GOAL
Communicate understanding of:
• people’s words and deeds
• the cause and effect relationship
between events
• the meaning of key terms

3. DIRECTIONS:
1. Follow along with the Interactive
Slideshow.
2. Copy notes in corresponding boxes on
foldable.
3. View the images to gain a better
understanding of terms, people, and
events
4. Draw AND COLOR (colored pencils) 1
illustration for each term, person, and
event. DO NOT COPY the images
from the slideshow (= 0 points).

4. DAY 1 = DAY 3 =
DAY 2 =
ALL TERMS + ALL
ALL PEOPLE +
illustrations + EVENTS/TIMELINE
illustrations
TITLE PAGE + ILLUSTRATIONS

5. INSIDE of FOLDABLE:
TOP = KEY TERMS
BOTTOM = PEOPLE

7. What root word is in loyalist?
TOP Box 1
http://www.slideshare.net/pamelag1972/revolutionary-war-words

8. http://www.slideshare.net/hectorsantiago/americomic-american-revolution-vocab-presentation

9. TOP Box 1
http://www.slideshare.net/pamelag1972/revolutionary-war-words

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11. http://www.slideshare.net/pamelag1972/revolutionary-war-words

12. TOP BOX 1

13. a formal complaint against a
perceived unjust act
(i.e., List fo Grievances against
King George III in the D of I.
TOP Box 2

15. TOP Box 2

16. TOP Box 3

17. Admiral
DeGrasse
Cut off
Yorktown’s
Resupply by
sea.
This is known
As a blockade.
TOP Box 3

19. surprise attack
TOP Box 3

21. Patriots British

22. MERCY OTIS
WARREN
I AM A VERY
CLEVER
WRITER AND I
PUBLISHED
THE
BLOCKHEADS, A
N ANTI-
BRITISH PLAY.
Why do you
think I titled it
Blockheads ? BOTTOM Box 1

23. Martha
Washington
I joined my
husband,
George, in
the army
camps to
cook, clean,
and sew for
him and his
BOTTOM Box 1 men.

24. Mary Ludwig Hays
BOTTOM Box 1
Nickname:
for
“Molly Pitcher”
women who
brought water to
soldiers on
battlefield
I fought on the
battlefield along
side my husband.
Many Women washed,
cooked, spied and
fought

25. “Gentlemen
Johnny”
Burgoyne
I enjoyed stopping to entertain and hold
lavish parties!
I was the British general
involved in the Battle of
Saratoga.
ALTHOUGH I SWORE I
WOULD NEVER
SURRENDER, I
SURRENDERED to
General Horatio Gates AT
SARATOGA
(AFTER CHANGING INTO
A CLEAN UNIFORM OF BOTTOM Box 2
COURSE!)”

26. HORATIO
GATES
ALTHOUGH I WAS
A
WEAK, INDECISIV
E LEADER,
I LED THE
CONTINENTAL
FORCES AT
FREEMEN’S
FARM AND
RECEIVED
CREDIT FOR THE
SURRENDER OF
BORGOYNE. -this
doesn’t make Benedict Arnold BOTTOM Box 2
TOP
happy…

27. Thaddeus
Kosciuszko
I am a Polish
Engineer &
supervised
construction
of an earth
barrier to hold
back Burgoyne
at
Freemen’s Farm
= part of the
Battle
of Saratoga (NY)
BOTTOM Box 2

28. Benedict Arnold
I am a Patriot & Clever
strategist BUT…
resentment and greed led
me to turn traitor & join
the British in 1780
“I SENT INDIAN ALLIES
TO SPREAD RUMORS OF
MY LARGE FORCE TO
BARRY ST. LEGER IN THE
MOHAWK VALLEY. I ALSO
RESENTED THE FACT
THAT I NEVER RECEIVED
ANY CREDIT FOR MY
STRoNG LEADERSHIP”
btw, my girlfriend/wife,
Peggy Shippen Arnold, BOTTOM Box 3
influenced my decision

30. BOTTOM Box 3
Joseph Brant
I am a Mohawk chief and sided with British/
Loyalists. I fought in Battles for the Mohawk Valley.

31. Marquis de BOTTOM Box 3
LaFayette
I am a 19 yr old
French noble.
I volunteered with
Washington’s army
in 1777. I was shot
in leg at Brandywine
& refused
to leave the
battlefield. I was
one of the most
popular leaders.
I named my 1st born son George Washington
LaFayette to honor my good friend and
mentor, George Washington. I was buried in
American soil in France.

32. BOTTOM Box 3
Baron von Steuben
I was a Prussian (German) Volunteer in 1778.
I turned the Continental Army into an Effective Fighting
Force at Valley Forge by teaching European military
formations, charging with bayonets, & executing drills
with speed and precision. Focus placed on strict hygiene
= discipline

33. BOTTOM Box 4
Francis Marion
My nickname is “Swamp Fox.”
I am the leader of 20 mounted men & boys in
South Carolina swamplands. We used guerilla
warfare

34. BOTTOM Box 4
John Paul Jones
I was a Scottish born privateer (pirate for hire). I battled
the British Serapis with my ship, Bonhomme Richard &
WON! When things looked rough for me & my men I
stated, “I have not yet begun to fight”

35. General Jean
Rochambeau
I was the
Leader of
French forces.
I marched south
with Washington
to the last major
battle & WIN at
Yorktown, Virgin
ia.
BOTTOM Box 4

36. Foldable Timeline Set Up
Draw a symbol for each event after
you read from Dateline p.34 &/or
watch video clips
Write NEATLY and leave space –
DO NOT crowd your notes.

42. #1 Battle of #3 #5
NYC Washington Washington’s
“Bloody Cat & Crosses Winter at
Mouse the Valley Forge
Game” Delaware
1778
1776 1777
#4 Saratoga, #6 France
#2 Thomas Turning Point Recognizes
Paine’s Of the War; American
The Crisis EFFECT: Independence
leads France & become its
to ALLY with ally
the Patriots

43. The War started in the NORTH (New England)
& ended in the SOUTH (VA).
#7 Battle of
Yorktown,
last major
battle
1783
1779 1781
#8
Treaty
Of
Slaves were promised freedom if Paris
they fought on either side. Ends
However, the British sold them the
back into slavery to the West war
Indies.

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47. Valley Forge – Washington’s Winter Camp
“No pay, no clothes, no provisions, no rum”