Veterans Day

http://www.amillionthanks.org/send-letter-guidelines-get-started

Watch the two videos.  The first deals with the background of Veterans Day.  The second is a music video about a mother writing letters to her son who has gone off to war.

Ask students if they have family or neighbors who have been or are in the military.  Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, Coast Guard

Discuss the need for support through letters and cards.

Ask students to write a letter to a veteran using the following guidelines.  We will send the letters/cards to “A Million Thanks”. 

A Million Thanks Project

We are asking individuals, schools, churches, businesses, and other organizations to write cards, letters, emails, and prayer messages of appreciation for our military, past and present. It is our goal to see that our military – active, reserve, and veterans – receive these messages, whether they are serving at home, abroad, or are injured in hospitals. To get started, read the guidelines below, then find a location nearest you on our Drop-off Location list so your notes of appreciated can be sent to our troops.

If there are no drop-off locations near you, letters can also be sent to:

A Million Thanks
17853 Santiago Blvd. #107-355
Villa Park, CA 92861

We appreciate you including a donation of any size with your letters or through our "Donate" page. A Million Thanks is only able to offer the program through the generous support of people like you! Your donation is tax deductible through our IRS approved 501(c)3 tax ID# 26-0361789.

Due to privacy and security, we do not distribute names or addresses of service members to anyone for any reason. Because we get thousands of letters each week, we ask that you address the letters generically. We cannot send specifically-addressed cards or letters.

1.           Do not put letters or cards in individual envelopes or include additional postage. 

2.           Do not use glitter, confetti, or anything that is not securely attached to the letter or card.

3.           Only include positive messages. Any negative messages will be discarded.

4.           Be creative! Draw pictures, talk about you, and let them know their service does not go unnoticed.

5.           Include your address or email address if you wish. Most military will write back to you!

6.           We ask that you include a message of thanks,  so our service members get a message along with a drawing.

**If any of the above guidelines and deadlines are not followed, please know your letters may not be sent. Thank you!

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Protests in Boston - More Acts Passed By Parliament

Who Shot First - Lexington and Concord - The Shot Heard Around The World

Battle of Lexington

Concord

North Bridge, Concord

March Back to Boston

Barker (Modified) 
19th. At 2 o’clock we began our march by wading through a very long stream up to our middles. About 5 miles away from a town called Lexington, we heard there were some hundreds of people collected together intending to oppose us. At 5 o’clock we arrived there and saw a number of people, I believe between 200 and 300, formed in a common in the middle of the town. We still continued advancing, prepared for an attack though without intending to attack them. As we came near them, they fired one or two shots, upon which our men without any orders, fired and put them to flight. We then formed on the Common, but with some difficulty, the men were so wild they could hear no orders; we waited a considerable time there, and at length proceeded on our way to Concord.
 Source: Entry for April 19th, 1775, from the diary of Lieutenant John Barker, an officer in the British army. Battle of Lexington 

Mulliken (Modified) 
We Nathaniel Mulliken, Philip Russell, (Followed by the names of 32 other men present on Lexington Green on April 19, 1775)…All of lawful age, and inhabitants of Lexington…do testify and declare, that on the nineteenth of April, about five o’clock in the morning, we proceeded towards the Green, and saw a large body of troops marching towards us. Some of our men were coming to the Green, and others had reached it, at which time, they began to disperse. While our backs were turned on the British troops, they fired on us, and a number of our men were instantly killed and wounded, not a gun was fired by any person in our company on the British soldiers to our knowledge before they fired on us, and continued firing until we had all made our escape. Lexington, April 25, 1775. 
Source: Sworn by 34 minutemen on April 25 before three Justices of the Peace.

Today's Steps

Today’s Steps

5-2

Frayer Vocab

HMWK - Finish Vocab

Vocabulary terms include

custom duties

boycotts

petition

writ of assistance

Townshend Acts

Stamp Act

Parliament

Sugar Act

molasses

Pontiac

Quartering Act

Sons of Liberty

Committees of Correspondence

Word in the center

Upper Left - Definition

Lower Left - Examples

Upper Right - Characteristics

Lower Right - Non examples