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Author:
Mary Pope Osborne
Publishing Information:
Random House, Inc., New York, 2000
History Standards:
5.5.1 - Understand how political, religious, and
economic ideas and interests brought about the
Revolution (e.g., resistance to imperial policy,
the Stamp Act, the Townshend Acts, taxes on
tea, Coercive Acts).
Author:
Mary Pope Osborne and Natalie Pope Boyce
Publishing Information:
Random House Childrens Books, New York,
2004
History Standards:
5.5.1 - Understand how political, religious, and
economic ideas and interests brought about the
Revolution (e.g., resistance to imperial policy,
the Stamp Act, the Townshend Acts, taxes on
tea, Coercive Acts).
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.5.9
Compare and contrast stories in the same
genre (e.g., mysteries and adventure stories)
on their approaches to similar themes and
topics.
Topic of the Book:
Revolutionary War
Grade Level: RL 2.2
Revolutionary War on Wednesday follows Jack
and Annie as they travel back in time to
Revolutionary War and the fight for freedom.
On their journey they meet George
Washington, and also befriend a Patriot
Captain. The Captain gives Jack and Annie a
letter to deliver to his children if they do not
successfully win the war.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.5.9
Compare and contrast stories in the same
genre (e.g., mysteries and adventure stories)
on their approaches to similar themes and
topics.
Topic of the Book:
Revolutionary War
Grade Level: RL 3.0
Magic Tree House Fact Tracker is a
companion guide to the Revolutionary War on
Wednesday book. After Jack and Annie return
from their adventure they had lots of questions
about what happened during the American
Revolution.
I would also use a school house rock video to give another visual alternative to the facts from
this lesson. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8BwWBc571k
There is also a great childrens series called Libertys Kids and they have several 20 min videos
about the colonial times and the American Revolution. These are great videos to assign the
students to watch at home and write a compare and contrast assignment about what they read in
the book and what was in the movie. They can also write about what was fact and what was
fiction between the books and the movies.