Name: Date: Grade 5 Lesson 12 Use the selection by Jean Fritz titled Can t You Make Them Behave, King George? in your student reader on pages 360-369. Directions Read the selection. Then answer questions 1 and 2. 1. What is the meaning of the phrase strong as a lion in paragraph 1 on page 363? Use two details from the story to support your response. 2. How does King George s mood change from the beginning to the end of the story? Use two details from the story to support your response.
In your student reader, use excerpts from the articles titled Can t You Make Them Behave, King George? by Jean Fritz pages 360-369 and Tea Time by Lawrence Tolbert on pages 374-375 to answer the question below. Directions Read the articles. Then answer question 3. 3. Both Can t You Make Them Behave, King George and Tea Time! describe events that led up to the American Revolution. How are the descriptions different? Why was the Boston Tea Party important to the American Revolution? Use details from both articles to support your response. In your response be sure to explain the events that led to the American Revolution explain how the descriptions are different explain why the Boston Tea Party was important to the American Revolution use details from both articles to support your response
EXEMPLARY RESPONSE RL.5.4 Determine the meaning of general academic and domain specific words and phrases in a text relevant to a grade 5 topic or subject area. W.5.2 Write informative/explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey ideas and information clearly. Stem: What is the meaning of X in paragraph #? Use two details from the story to support your response. 1. What is the meaning of the phrase strong as a lion in paragraph 1 on page 363? Use two details from the story to support your response. Possible Exemplary Response The simile strong as a lion refers to how King George felt after the British troops won the Battles of Lexington and Bunker Hill. King George is being compared to a lion, which is very powerful and is considered to be the king of all the animals, just as George is the king of England and all of the colonies. This phrase strong as a lion is in contrast to how he feels about the colonists, who he believes will surrender to his troops meek as lambs. Because King George believed it was necessary to treat the colonists more firmly he sent additional regiments to America to control the rebellious Americans. These actions led to the start of the American Revolution. Possible Details to Include Other relevant text-based details Score Points Apply 2-point rubric
EXEMPLARY RESPONSE RI.6.3 W.5.2 Write informative/explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey ideas and information clearly. How does {character s} mood change from the beginning to the end of the story? Use two details from the story to support your response. 2. How does King George s mood change from the beginning to the end of the story? Use two details from the story to support your response. Possible Exemplary Response King George s mood changed from confident at the beginning of the story to defeated at the end of the story. At the beginning, he felt confident that the Americans would back down and fall back in line with English rule. As king, he felt that he was right and the colonists were wrong. It states they were English subjects, weren t they? Also, King George was amazed that Americans objected. He was flabbergasted that they claimed he had no right to tax them. At the end of the story, however, he felt depressed when he realized that he could not win the war. He thought seriously of abdicating the throne and even drafted a letter. For the rest of his life, he had nightmares about the loss of the colonies. Possible Details to Include Other relevant text-based details Score Points Apply 2-point rubric
EXEMPLARY RESPONSE RI.5.9 Integrate information from several texts on the same topic in order to write or speak about the subject knowledgeably. W.5.2 Write informative/explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey ideas and information clearly. Stem: Both X and Y describe Z. How are the descriptions different? Why was Z important to / for? Use details from both articles to support your response. In your student reader, use excerpts from the articles titled Can t You Make Them Behave, King George? by Jean Fritz on pages 360-369 and Tea Time by Lawrence Tolbert on pages 374-375 to answer the question below. 3. Both Can t You Make Them Behave, King George and Tea Time! describe events that led up to the American Revolution. How are the descriptions different? Why was the Boston Tea Party important to the American Revolution? Use details from both articles to support your response. In your response be sure to explain the events that led to the American Revolution explain how the descriptions are different explain why the Boston Tea Party was important to the American Revolution use details from both articles to support your response Possible Exemplary Response The texts Can t You Make Them Behave, King George? by Jean Fritz and Tea Time by Lawrence Tolbert explain events that led up to the America Revolution. However, though both passages address the same events, they reach provide a different perspective. Both articles explain that Britain imposed many taxes on English goods which led to great frustration in the colonies. Since the taxes were so unpopular, Britain took away all but the Tea Tax, thinking this would satisfy the colonists. However, the colonists were still angry that they were being taxed and had no say about it, so they threw the tea into the Boston Harbor in an act of rebellion known as the Boston Tea Party. The Boston Tea Party was one of the main events leading up to the American Revolution. The two articles are different because they provide two different perspectives on the taxation of the colonies. In Tea Time, the reader learns that the colonists felt resentful about the taxation issue because they had no representatives in Parliament to speak on their behalf. There are also two eye witness accounts that describe how the Boston Tea Party took place. On the other hand, Can t You Make Them Behave, King George? provides the King s perspective on the taxation issue and the events leading up the American Revolution. It lets the reader know that King George felt the taxes were fair, and as king, he had a right to tax the colonists because they were British subjects. He felt as though the colonists owed England for giving America the necessary support to win the French and Indian War. The Boston Tea Party was an important event because anger at the tea tax and how the British handled the situation eventually led to the American Revolution. The Boston Tea Party was one of the first displays of resistance and led to a harsh punishment for the Massachusetts colony. This, in turn, angered colonists that might not have cared before. And caused them to support the Revolution.
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