Holaway Elementary School Room 24 Presents The American Revolution: A Timeline

Hello and welcome to Mrs. Randolph's and Mr. Gee's American Revolution Timeline. It really is not our timeline, it is the students'. They researched each individual entry and loaded it into the computer. In fact, the pages you are looking at right now were programmed by four of our students (Andy, Barbara, Melanie, and Teresa). Please remember this when you read each entry. There is no set design so enjoy the hard work each child put into this project.

The Internet is a great place to publish students' works. It provides an authentic audience for the students. However when we talk about children on the Internet, we must be careful about their safety. You may notice that there are no last names on this timeline. This is to protect our children. Unfortunately, there are people in the world who would find this information useful.

This was a mini-research project because we only used one source for the student's information. It came from their textbook:

United States and its Neighbors , Macmillan/McGraw-Hill School Publishing Company, 1991.

The information came from Unit 5 The Colonies Become a Nation. The chapters dealt with the events that led to the Revolution and the actual events in the war. In the classroom, we learned the information through a variety of teaching techniques: role-playing, self-discovery, group reading, videos, and mini-lectures when the students learned how to take notes. For the timeline entry, the students had to take notes, from the book, about their entry. Then they put their notes into a paragraph. I collected the papers and edited the content and returned it back to the students. They made the necessary changes in content and mechanics. Finally, they were allowed to type their paragraphs on the computer which I later loaded into the Holaway Homepage.