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1776
SUBJECTS --- Creating the Nation; Pennsylvania; Drama/Musicals;
SOCIAL-EMOTIONAL LEARNING --- Rebellion;
MORAL-ETHICAL EMPHASIS --- Trustworthiness; Responsibility;
Citizenship.
Age: 11+; MPAA Rating: G; Musical; 1972; 141 minutes; Color.
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It's June of 1776. The Second Continental Congress is struggling with the momentous question of whether to separate from Great Britain. John Adams is trying to get the Congress to declare independence. With the help of Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson, Adams manages to overcome obstacles by the loyalists and to satisfy the slaveholders from the Southern colonies.
The TeachWithMovies.com Learning Guide to 1776 shows how this improbable, but charming, musical can serve as an excellent resource for teachers and parents. It will contribute to lesson plans and supplement curriculum concerning important topics in U.S. history, including: the American Revolution; the Declaration of Independence; and the Founding Fathers. This film keeps kids, teachers and parents alike entranced with its musical rendition of the debates and political maneuvering in the Second Continental Congress. The statesmanship of John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and Benjamin Franklin are musically on display in 1776.
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1776 threads the eye of a needle by making history into a musical that's fun and interesting. This is certainly a different view of Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and John Adams.
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To give you a sense of how our Learning Guides can be used by teachers as lesson plans and by parents to supplement school curriculum or for homeschooling, we have set out below a selection from the Learning Guide to the motion picture, "1776."
In the Second Continental Congress, radicals led by John
Adams and Ben Franklin were much stronger than they had been
in the First Congress. The battles of Lexington and Concord
had already taken place and militiamen had surrounded the
British occupying force in Boston. The Congress
commissioned General George Washington to form the
Continental Army, sent ambassadors abroad, established rules
for trading, issued paper money and assumed many other
functions of a government.
Even so, the radicals could not convince their
colleagues to vote for independence until the publication of
Thomas Paine's pamphlet, Common Sense. This created such
strong support for independence that the conservative
delegates could no longer resist....
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