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Starting this week we are finally getting into the interesting part of the events leading up to the American Revolution, as well as the war itself.

 I got this book by Scholastic called Hands-On History American Revolution (ISBN 0439072085) that has tons of hands on pages that will help reinforce what we will be learning. I plan on having the pages comb bound at Staples into a book once we are done.

I also found a computer game called Liberty's Kids (like the tv show). I was playing it the other day when Chantelle was away so that I can see what we have to do in it.

You are a reporter and have to travel around asking questions, "drawing" a picture for the front page of the Pennsylvania Gazette.

Your first assignment is to find out all you can about the Boston Tea Party. Lots of people to talk to, some of which know nothing about what happened, some make stuff up. Some of the people won't talk to you unless you find an object that they lost. You have to go find this object and give it to the person to talk to them. You also  have to talk to someone famous like Sam Adams and Paul Revere.

Once you have talked to everyone that you can and have copyed down what they said, it is time to head back to Pennsylvania to print your paper. You pick a sketch for your picture and find the most truthful responces to the questions asked. There is a feedback button you can click to see how well you have done. The more papers you sell, the better you are doing.

I have only done the first 2 assignments (the second one is about the battle at Lexington & Concord) but I like how in depth it is. I actually learned some things that I never had before. I believe you can print out the actul paper that you made up because there is a print button you can click. I am going to go play it again today and see if I can do that. If we can print it out, we will add them to the book that I mentioned above.

I have also gotten the Declaration of Independence lapbook research pack and ebook from Hands of a Child to work on. Right after I got it, they came out with an American Revolution pack that I am going to have to beg my hubby to get for us.

I have to head out to the library tomorrow and pick up a bunch of books that I have on hold about different battles of the war as well as different people. I am planning on reading the Midnight Ride of Paul Revere by Longfellow as well as a little bio of Longfellow himself (which I have misplaced after I printed up).

Awhile back when we were studying the Salem Witch trials, I had my aunt send me a copy of out family tree. I knew we were related to Rebecca Nurse and I wanted to show Chantelle. While looking at it, and we only had a summed up version of the tree, I noticed that we are also related to Longfellow. How cool is that!