Help your group choose your side's 3 best witnesses for the upcoming trial. Make sure you have written responses for each witness in your annotated packet or in a separate Google doc. You only have to analyze the witnesses your group has assigned. You do not have to take notes on all of the witnesses unless you choose to. Here's a copy of the assignment if you want to type your response.

Read and ANNOTATE this packet for our next class and bring any questions to ask. Pay special attention to the embedded primary source, "Deposition of Captain Thomas Preston", as this will become our "baseline" testimony. Though this is a formative assessment, failure to read closely will certainly have a deleterious effect on your next summative assessment (TBA). 

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Massacre in Boston by Jacob Lawrence, 1955

Based on this interpretation (parts I & II), was the American Revolution justified?

BONUS (optional) material: Interview with historian Woody Holton regarding the Founding Fathers and why the creation of America still matters to Americans.

Favorite quote: "We’ve got to let go of the heroes and replace them with heroics. That is, to see that the same person can do something heroic on Monday and be an enslaver or a town destroyer....And is that so hard? Does anybody have any perfect friends? Most of us are some of this and some of that. And I think we are more likely to unify around the founding if we admit the feet of clay, as well as the virtuous aspects. And I think one way to do that is to focus on people’s heroics rather than insisting on heroes."