Distribute the background reading.
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Have students read the background reading once without pen or pencil.
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Have students read a second time, noting the vocabulary words in bold and underlining context that can help define the words.
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Have students write definitions for the vocabulary words in the graphic organizer at the bottom of the page.
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Have students share definitions so that you can check for understanding.
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Boycott: a protest in which protesters avoid purchasing a specific good or service.
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Monopoly: economic situation in which only one manufacturer is permitted to sell a specific good or service.
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Port: place in which goods are exchanged with other places.
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Tax: government surcharge on a good or service meant to raise government revenue or discourage use of a good or service.
Primary Source Analysis: Distribute primary sources A–G.
Economic Causes and Effects Graphic Organizer
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Have students work in groups or pairs to complete the cause‐and‐effect chart by putting the letter of each source in the correct box.
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Box 1 should contain Source D.
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The two boxes after the first arrow should contain
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The two boxes after the second arrow should contain
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The last two boxes should contain
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Discuss the positioning of the sources and clarify the economic causes (taxation, monopoly, boycotts) and effects (quartering to transfer costs of soldiers, and cutting off trade as punishment) of the policies.
Vignettes (If time allows, you may do this activity during the same class session or make it a Day 2 activity.)
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Break class into 7 groups.
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Assign each group a primary source.
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Have each group take a few minutes to construct a vignette such as a still photograph. They should arrange themselves as if to physically recreate this still photograph. They may leave one student out of the photograph to narrate or explain the vignette.
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Have students present in the correct order as listed above to reinforce the causal nature of each of these actions.