Introduction

Getting Started

Lesson Plans

Curriculum Connections

Images

Websites for further study

Bibliography


  Lesson Plans
Unit Introduction Lesson Plan

Portraits as Keys to History
  Nathaniel Hurd: portraiture & identity
  Life as a colonial silversmith. A lesson in point of view
  Self-portraits and fashioning your own identity
Identity of Women in Portraiture
  Signs, symbols, identities and women in the American Revolution
Paul Revere and Point of View
  Images and accounts of the Boston Massacre
  The figure of Paul Revere. Romanticizing colonial American history
  Document Based Question
Firefighting and Community in Colonial America
  What can objects tell us?
  Document Based Question
Colonial Trades and Apprenticeships
  Silversmiths
Artists in Colonial America
  John Singleton Copley
Colonial Silver and Tea
  Items of social significance, yesterday and today
Colonial American Trade, Currency, and Economy
  The instability of a colonial economy
  What can money tell us?
  Document Based Question
John Singleton Copley and British Portraiture
  Picturing history
Make it Yourself!
  The Spoon Game
    CD-ROM Activities
      Tea Party Activities