Aiden Aizumi

Twin Text Experience: American Revolution

Title: Magic Tree House #22
Revolutionary War on Wednesday

Title: Magic Tree House Fact Tracker

American Revolution

Author:
Mary Pope Osborne
Publishing Information:
Random House, Inc., New York, 2000
History Standards:
5.5.1 - Understand how political, religious, and
economic ideas and interests brought about the
Revolution (e.g., resistance to imperial policy,
the Stamp Act, the Townshend Acts, taxes on
tea, Coercive Acts).

Author:
Mary Pope Osborne and Natalie Pope Boyce
Publishing Information:
Random House Childrens Books, New York,
2004
History Standards:
5.5.1 - Understand how political, religious, and
economic ideas and interests brought about the
Revolution (e.g., resistance to imperial policy,
the Stamp Act, the Townshend Acts, taxes on
tea, Coercive Acts).

5.5.3 - Understand the people and events

associated with the drafting and signing of the
Declaration of Independence and the
documents significance, including the key
political concepts it embodies, the origins of
those concepts, and its role in severing ties
with Great Britain.

5.5.3 - Understand the people and events

associated with the drafting and signing of the
Declaration of Independence and the
documents significance, including the key
political concepts it embodies, the origins of
those concepts, and its role in severing ties
with Great Britain.

5.5.4 - Describe the views, lives, and impact of

key individuals during this period (e.g., King
George III, Patrick Henry, Thomas Jefferson,
George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, John
Adams).
ELA Standards:
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.5.3

5.5.4 - Describe the views, lives, and impact of

key individuals during this period (e.g., King
George III, Patrick Henry, Thomas Jefferson,
George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, John
Adams).
ELA Standards:
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.5.3

Explain the relationships or interactions

between two or more individuals, events, ideas,
or concepts in a historical, scientific, or
technical text based on specific information in
the text.

Explain the relationships or interactions

between two or more individuals, events, ideas,
or concepts in a historical, scientific, or
technical text based on specific information in
the text.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.5.9
Compare and contrast stories in the same
genre (e.g., mysteries and adventure stories)
on their approaches to similar themes and
topics.
Topic of the Book:
Revolutionary War
Grade Level: RL 2.2
Revolutionary War on Wednesday follows Jack
and Annie as they travel back in time to
Revolutionary War and the fight for freedom.
On their journey they meet George
Washington, and also befriend a Patriot
Captain. The Captain gives Jack and Annie a
letter to deliver to his children if they do not
successfully win the war.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.5.9
Compare and contrast stories in the same
genre (e.g., mysteries and adventure stories)
on their approaches to similar themes and
topics.
Topic of the Book:
Revolutionary War
Grade Level: RL 3.0
Magic Tree House Fact Tracker is a
companion guide to the Revolutionary War on
Wednesday book. After Jack and Annie return
from their adventure they had lots of questions
about what happened during the American
Revolution.

This guide broken down into sections that

cover everything from life in the colonies to
Jack and Annie must make it through their trip the Declaration of Independence. It also has
to the past without disturbing the original
great illustrations that make it the book fun and
historical events. This means making sure they interactive. These pictures provide a great
are aware of some of the facts and what
visual to represent what the facts are talking
happened so that they dont alter history. They about. The book also contains an index and
arent completely alone and they have the help additional resources if students want to do
of their research book to make sure they make more independent research on the American
it through the trip.
Revolution.
Procedure:
When using this book in a lesson I would use the Revolutionary War on Wednesday first and then
the American Revolution Fact Tracker book second.
After reading the first book, the students will probably have questions about what other things
happened or are a part of the American Revolution and the second book can answer those
questions. The books are set up to work together in this fashion. The Fact Tracker book is even
written from the perspective of Jack and Annie after their adventure because they had their own
questions.

I would also use a school house rock video to give another visual alternative to the facts from
this lesson. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8BwWBc571k

There is also a great childrens series called Libertys Kids and they have several 20 min videos
about the colonial times and the American Revolution. These are great videos to assign the
students to watch at home and write a compare and contrast assignment about what they read in
the book and what was in the movie. They can also write about what was fact and what was
fiction between the books and the movies.