American Revolution Lesson: Boston Massacre Primary Source, Grades 4-6

Paul Revere's 1770 engraving of the Boston Massacre is one of the best-known pictures of the Revolution. This lesson teaches students to read it as a historian would: who made it, when, for whom and why, and how it differs from the official record.

What's inside

• 16 slides, with speaker notes on all 16
• Lesson plan, 2 pages
• Student reading, "March 5, 1770: What the Record Says," 1 page
• Primary source page, Revere's engraving, 1 page
• Student worksheet, 2 pages
• Teacher answer key, 1 page
• Print-all PDF, 7 pages: lesson plan, reading, primary source, worksheet and answer key together

Answer key included

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