1. Valley Forge DBQ
Would you have quit?

2. Name the Steps of the scientific method
Step 1: Ask a Question
Step 2: State a Hypothesis
Step 3: Conduct an Experiment
Step 4: Analyze the Results
Step 5: Make a Conclusion

3. The DBQ Research Process
The Scientific Method
Step 1: Ask a Question
Step 2: Consider Prior Knowledge
Step 3: Conduct Research
Step 4: Analyze the Results
Step 5: Make a Conclusion
Social Studies Research
Ask, “Would you have quit?”
Initial Claim/Reasons
Read the sources
Analyze what we found
Write your draft
Valley Forge DBQ
Step 1: Ask a Question
Step 2: State a Hypothesis
Step 3: Conduct an Experiment
Step 4: Analyze the Results
Step 5: Make a Conclusion

4. When did you ever change your mind?
I once thought that I didn’t like cycling …

5. You already listed reasons to stay or quit at Valley Forge…
How do you think your reasons may change as you learn more about Valley Forge?

6. Is this document a primary or secondary source? Explain your thinking
On February 1, 1778, how many soldiers at Valley Forge were sick? What % was this?
What was the low estimate of the number of soldiers who died at Valley Forge?
How could this document be used to argue for quitting?
How could this document be used to argue against quitting? (Reenlisting)
*Annotation Note
Revolutionary records are VERY hard to come by. Most numbers are estimated through muster rolls, payrolls, discharges, orderly books, diaries, letters, enlistment papers, newspaper articles etc.
*Annotation Note
University of Michigan research data about the Revolutionary War:
Killed in Action 6,284
Death in camp (illness) 10,000
Prisoner deaths (est.) 8,500
Continental Army Death Total 25,324

7. In what year was the engraving done?
Who are the men on the left? The men on the right? The man in the middle?
What do you suppose the man in the middle was saying?
How could this document be used to argue for quitting?
How could this document be used to argue for staying? (reenlisting)
*Annotation Note
The five committee members depicted next to Washington were from New England, Middle, and Southern colonies. It was not an accident that such a range of figures are included in the picture.
Why do you think Powell would want to include committee members from all over the colonies?
Source: Engraving of a painting by William Henry Powell, Committee of Congress at Valley Forge, National Archives, 1866

8. What hardship described by Waldo most gets your attention?
*Annotation Note
Historians agree that some accounts of Valley Forge were… exaggerated.
How many of you ever inflated the a story, especially when telling a story to someone?
The doctor in camp may also have a particularly gruesome view of things.
Do you believe this document is an accurate picture of camp life at Valley Forge? Why?
What hardship described by Waldo most gets your attention?
Make one inference about the quality of ventilation in the soldiers’ huts.
How could this document be used to argue for quitting?
Is there any way this document could be used to argue against quitting? (Reenlisting)

9. When was this document written and who was the author?
What is meant by the line, “These are the times that try men’s souls”?
Who are “the summer soldier and the sunshine patriot”?
What is “tyranny” and what does Paine compare it to?
What does Paine mean when he writes, “What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly?
What is the main idea of this document?
Are the words of Thomas Paine enough to keep you at Valley Forge?
*Annotation Note
Remember Thomas Paine? He wrote Common Sense.
He wanted no pay for his pamphlet, The American Crisis, because he felt it was too important and didn’t want to mess the message up with money.
THESE are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value…Britain, with an army to enforce her tyranny, has declared that she has a right (not only to TAX) but "to BIND us in ALL CASES WHATSOEVER," and if being bound in that manner, is not slavery, then is there not such a thing as slavery upon earth.

10. Reason: I am needed now more than ever
Prior Knowledge- Considering what you know
Reason: I am needed now more than ever
Evidence: The number of dead an sick at valley forge. (Doc A)
Reason: I don’t want to get sick and die in camp.
Evidence: The number of dead an sick at valley forge. (Doc A)
Take 5 minutes to list your own reasons and evidence. Try and get one from each document.

11. I would reenlist with the Continental Army because,
On the chickenfoot below, write your thesis and your roadmap. Your thesis is always an opinion and answers the Mini-Q questions. The first line is a restatement of your Mini-Q question. Each of the branches is a piece of reasoning, based off evidence you gathered.
Example:
I am needed now more than ever,
I would reenlist with the Continental Army because,
I am not just a “sunshine patriot,”
my leaders support the American cause.

12. Work Time
I will be coming around to check your claims based off your new understanding and the evidence we gathered.
It’s okay to change your mind. It’s okay to also reinforce your current claim.
Just make sure your claim is supported with strong reasons and evidence of those reasons.
Prove your claim!
We will complete on the full outline tomorrow, and you’ll turn the DBQ Packet in at the end of class.