1. Monday October 31st 2016
Pick up your spirals/folders from the front, take out a pen/pencil and start a new bellwork page.
If you need a piece of paper from me get one.
I am not looking through spirals for bellwork
If your last section is still in your spiral, turn it in now.
Bellwork: What do you think? (Sentences!!!)
Who do you think had the advantage (England/US) at the beginning of the American Revolution? Why?

2. Announcements Voter Registration Continues: Deadline Tomorrow 11/1
CA Thursday in class
All grades due Friday!!
Quiz Retake: 1 quiz on Tuesday, Wednesday, or Thursday before or after school.
Wednesday no before school because of CA’s

3. Role of Geography England is 3,000 miles from the colonies
Americans control Mississippi River (Galvez) squares
1,000 miles of coastline is hard to blockade
Americans know the land

4. Battle of Trenton Trenton, NJ - Christmas 1776
Morale is low after losing NYC
Washington attacks 2,000 Hessians (German mercenaries) at dawn
Must cross icy Delaware River in the dark
Huge American victory
Morale boost keeps army together

5. Battle of Saratoga France becomes an American ally!
Fall Upstate New York
British goal: cut off New England
British style of warfare hurts them in dense forests
Americans combine standard and new tactics
Major victory – captured 5,000 British soldiers
Turning point of the war!
France becomes an American ally!

6. British Surrender at Saratoga

7. Tuesday November 1st 2016
Pick up your folders/spirals from the front, take out a pen/pencil and your bellwork.
We are finishing the powerpoint today.
Bellwork: What do you think?
What was the turning point of the American Revolution? Why?

8. Announcements Last day of voter registration. New ID Laws
I will collect cards now.
New ID Laws
History CA on Thursday 11/3
All Grades due Friday 11/4
Quiz Retakes: Today, Wednesday (11/2), and Thursday (11/3). After school.
Thursday before school as well.
No FRIDAY RETAKES UNLESS A PARENT CONTACTS ME!!

9. Winter at Valley Forge Winter of 1777-78
The Continental Army was ill, poorly equipped, and hungry
Disease spread through the camp
Baron von Steuben (Prussian soldier) square
Trained troops and wrote military manual
Valuable training time for unskilled soldiers
Survivors were prepared to fight the British

10. Thomas Paine’s The Crisis
“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 his 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.”

11. Battle of Yorktown American victory that ended the war! October 1781
French fleet has defeated British navy in Chesapeake Bay
British are surrounded with no escape
Cornwallis forced to surrender to Washington
American victory that ended the war!

12. Siege of Yorktown

13. Treaty of Paris 1783 Ended the American Revolution
Americans receive all land east of Mississippi River
England recognizes American independence!