Double-Entry Journal:
Connecting Your Prior Knowledge
Directions: Use this template to provide a concrete reference to connect your prior knowledge to your chosen topics of research.
General Content Topic: American RevolutionTopics (2-4) that you want to research further / What and how much do you know about this topic, already?
· Minority group contributions
· British nationalists (Tories) role during the Revolution
· Thomas Paine’s Common Sense / 1. African Americans joined both sides
2. Benefit to joining British (freedom)
3. Acted as spies for both sides
4. Women assumed the role of men at home
5. Some ran back to England
6. Those that remained behind were persecuted by Patriots
7. Property was taken and recompense was not provided
8. Joined the British Army as officers/soldiers
9. Split families in two
10. Chalmers, a Marylander, wrote a Tory response to C.S.
11. Galvanized the moderates and “fence sitters”
12. Has become a mainstay of American historical literature
13. Precursor to Summer Soldier and Sunshine Patriot
14. Part of the propaganda to encourage revolution (Boston Massacre engraving)
Double-Entry Journal:
Connecting Your Prior Knowledge
Directions: Use this template to provide a concrete reference to connect your prior knowledge to your chosen topics of research.
General Content Topic:Topics (2-4) that you want to research further / What and how much do you know about this topic, already?