Fifth Grade Timeline Project

Students in Mrs. Pendleton's class complete an Expeditionary Learning lesson in which they are sequencing the events of the Revolutionary War by creating a timeline.  Students first must read a text critically, identify key information, and work collaboratively to create the timeline.  Students then tore apart each event in the war (as indicated in the text) and talked about how they events were connected and why each was important in the timeline.  Finally, students are tasked with using their resources to create a summary of the events of the Revolutionary War.  TOUGH!  But the kids did a really fabulous job determining which items in the timeline were most important to highlight in a summary of a huge event in time.