This document provides an outline for a lesson on the Boston Massacre that will use various materials to teach students about the key events and context. It begins with an essential question about how the Boston Massacre united the colonies against the British. Students will learn vocabulary, sequence important historical events, read a Longfellow poem and view a Paul Revere painting. They will then participate in a sensory activity imagining the events of the Boston Massacre from different perspectives before answering the essential question.

1. Table of Contents
• Title | Essential Question
• Vocabulary
• Sequence
– Pass one printout to one student (8 total)
• Longfellow Poem
• Paul Revere Painting
– Silversmith, Engraver, Patriot
• Boston Massacre Engraving
• Sensory Activity
• Essential Question Answered
• Printouts

2. The Boston Massacre
Essential Question:
Why would the Boston Massacre
unite the colonies against the British?

3. Vocabulary
• Propaganda
• Massacre

4. Each student put themselves into sequential
order.
French & Indian War - Boston Massacre

5. Listen my children and you shall hear
Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere,
On the eighteenth of April, in Seventy-five;
Hardly a man is now alive
Who remembers that famous day and year.

8. Sensory Activity
• Pick someone in the painting, No, not the dog. British
or colonist.
• Write a paragraph describing everything you saw at the
Boston Massacre as if you were that person.
• Use the 5 senses:
• I saw
• I heard
• I smelled
• I tasted
• I felt --- NOT EMOTIONS

9. Essential Question
• Why would the Boston Massacre unite the
colonies against the British?

10. French & Indian
War

11. Pontiac’s
Rebellion

12. Sugar Act

13. Stamp Act

14. Quartering Act

15. Townshend Act

16. Boston
Massacre