HISTORICAL WALKING TOURS | BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS
  • Freedom Trail Tours
    • In The Footsteps of Paul Revere
    • Freedom Trail Audio Tour
    • The Boston Massacre Tour
    • Boston Civil War Tour
    • The Boston Massacre Lesson Plan
    • Paul Revere's Neighborhood
    • Paul Revere's Row to Charlestown 4/18/1775
    • The Boston Massacre per the Pennsylvania Gazette
    • Paul Revere Lesson Plan
  • Revere Bells Index
    • The Stickney Revere Bell Listings of 1976
    • Paul Revere Bell of Beverly
    • Revere Bells in Boston >
      • Paul Revere Bell Old South Meeting House
    • California's 2 Paul Revere Bells
    • Paul Revere & Son's Bell Westborough Massachusetts
    • Falmouth, Massachusetts
    • Revere Bell Fredericksburg VA
    • Revere Bell Hampton NH
    • First Parish Church of Kennebunk
    • Revere Bells in Maine
    • Revere Bell in Mansfield
    • Revere Bell of Michigan
    • Revere Salem Mass Bell
    • Roxbury First Unitariarn Universalist Church and their Revere Bell
    • Revere & Son Bell, Savannah Georgia
    • Singapore Revere Bell
    • Tuscaloosa Bell >
      • History of the St John and Leavens Patriarchs
      • Samuel St John Jr Estate Genealogy
      • Authenticating the Revere Tuscaloosa Bell
      • Joshua B Leavens Last Will and Testament
      • 20th Century Tuscaloosa bell
    • Revere Bells Lost in Time
    • Revere Bells Washington DC
    • Revere Bell in Wakefield, Mass
    • Revere Bells Woodstock VT
  • Bostonians
    • Edward F Alexander of The Harvard 20th Civil War Regiment
    • Polly Baker
    • John Wilkes Booth
    • The Mad Hatter, Thomas, Boston Corbett who Killed John Wilkes Booth
    • Richard-Henry-Dana-Jr
    • James Franklin
    • Benjamin Harris of Publick Occurrences
    • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
    • William Lloyd Garrison
    • USS Thomas Hudner DDG116
    • Edward Hutchinson Robbins Revere
    • Amos Lincoln
    • King Philip
    • Mayor's of Boston
    • Mum Bett & Theodore Sedgwick
    • James Otis
    • Paul Joseph Revere
    • Reverend Larkin's Horse
    • John Rowe >
      • John Rowe's Diary Entries
      • John Rowe's Dinner Party
      • John Rowe and the Jail Fire
      • Hang John Rowe?????
      • John Rowe the Fisherman
      • Joh Rowe's Tea Ship
    • Be Proud to be Called a Lucy Stoner
    • Rachel Wall , Pirate
    • Paul Revere the Coroner of Boston
    • Deborah Sampson
    • Who was Mrs. Silence Dogood?
    • Dr. Joseph Warren's Dedication
  • History Blog
  • Lilja's of Natick
    • Lilja Brothers Military History
    • Lilja's Family Album
    • Memorials and Tributes to the Five Lilja Brothers
    • Lilja Family Tree
    • Lilja Historical Family Tree Documents
    • Lilja References
  • Collage of Boston
    • 4th of July Parade, Bristol RI
    • Boston Harbor
    • The Customs House
    • Forest Hills Cemetery
    • Georges Island
    • Nonviolent Monument to Peace - Sherborn
    • The Battle Road
    • Skate bike and scooter park
    • Cassin Young & USS Cassin Young
    • MIT
    • Historic Charles River
    • The Roxbury Standpipe on Fort Hill
    • John & Abigail Adams National Park
  • Boston's Racial History - Ante-Bellum
Lesson plan for guided Paul Revere Walking Tour

Audience: eighth grade or higher
  • Tour: 1.5 to 2.0 hours. Groups up to 25. If larger than 25, two groups simultaneously or back to back
  • The course is modestly downhill, (1.6 miles), crisscrossing the Freedom Trail and finishing at Paul Revere’s Museum in the North End
  • Customization readily available according to your lesson plan and time constraint
  • Tours can be made ADA compliant.
 
Objective: 
To present Paul Revere’s many contributions to Boston and the industrial and military growth of America.

Materials:
Maps of 16th, 17th and 18th Century Boston, Charlestown, Lexington, Concord

Overlay map of 21st Century Boston
Sketches of John Hancock and Ben Franklin's home
Portraits of Paul Revere at 35 and 79
Photograph of the Paul Revere Bell in Kings Chapel 
Picture of his silver Liberty Bowl; the “Glorious ninety-two”
His sketches of the Boston Massacre
 
Educational Walking Course:
  • Mass. State House and history of the dome
  • Granary Burial Ground Tremont Street
  • Kings Chapel
  • At Court Square: a court martial
  • The Old State House
  • The artisan & his hammers
  • Paul's Boston Massacre propaganda document
  • Dr. Boylston, Paul Revere & smallpox
  • Dock Square hardware store
  • Dentistry
  • Original Green Dragon Tavern and his large spying network
  • Military service during the French and Indian War
  • North End and his coroner activity
  • President of the very first Department of health
  • Launch site of his row to Charlestown
  • The Copp's Hill Burial Ground: reflection on Charlestown & his row across
  • Post Bunker Hill excavation
  • The Old North Church
  • Edes and Gill Printing Museum at Faneuil Hall
  • Captain Jackson’s Chocolate Shop and the Old North Church
  • Paul Revere’s Statue & horse
  • Site of his Foundry in Boston
  • His bell and cannon foundry in Canton
  • How he spent his last two days on earth: his poetry
  • North Square 
  • Hichborn House
  • Revere’s first home and current museum
    End of tour at North End
 
General Plan (easily adjustable);
The Paul Revere Tour begins with his contribution to America’s industrial revolution of the 19th Century and finishes with the American Revolution of the 18th Century. While the tour is in reverse chronological order it emphasizes his vast contribution to America beyond his midnight ride and follows a downhill path.
 
  
Class Preparation 
Overview of the religious wars of the 17th and 18th centuries and the Huguenot purge by Louis XIV and his son, and grandson
Review Boston's demographics
What had greater value as a currency, gold silver or Madeira wine and why?
What was the average life expectancy?
European visitors noticed that Bostonian mothers had terrible teeth. Explore or assign.
What was the composite population of Boston in 1775?
Biographical assignments on Samuel Adams, Joseph Warren, General Thomas Gage, William Dawes, Robert Newman
 
Suggested Class Activity Post Walking Tour;
 
What were the dominant careers and economic occupations of Bostonians around 1770?
How was the town of Boston organized, politically, socially and economically?
Provide a profile of Paul Revere's two wives?
How many of Paul Revere’s church bells remain in Boston?  How did he, a silversmith, learn the craft of bell, cannon and copper making?
Diagram the technology used by the Reveres to produce church and ship bells, cannon or gunpowder
Critique Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s poem, “The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere”
Provide a bibliography for answers to the questions above
Fact check the top ten google listings about Paul Revere

 
 


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  • Freedom Trail Tours
    • In The Footsteps of Paul Revere
    • Freedom Trail Audio Tour
    • The Boston Massacre Tour
    • Boston Civil War Tour
    • The Boston Massacre Lesson Plan
    • Paul Revere's Neighborhood
    • Paul Revere's Row to Charlestown 4/18/1775
    • The Boston Massacre per the Pennsylvania Gazette
    • Paul Revere Lesson Plan
  • Revere Bells Index
    • The Stickney Revere Bell Listings of 1976
    • Paul Revere Bell of Beverly
    • Revere Bells in Boston >
      • Paul Revere Bell Old South Meeting House
    • California's 2 Paul Revere Bells
    • Paul Revere & Son's Bell Westborough Massachusetts
    • Falmouth, Massachusetts
    • Revere Bell Fredericksburg VA
    • Revere Bell Hampton NH
    • First Parish Church of Kennebunk
    • Revere Bells in Maine
    • Revere Bell in Mansfield
    • Revere Bell of Michigan
    • Revere Salem Mass Bell
    • Roxbury First Unitariarn Universalist Church and their Revere Bell
    • Revere & Son Bell, Savannah Georgia
    • Singapore Revere Bell
    • Tuscaloosa Bell >
      • History of the St John and Leavens Patriarchs
      • Samuel St John Jr Estate Genealogy
      • Authenticating the Revere Tuscaloosa Bell
      • Joshua B Leavens Last Will and Testament
      • 20th Century Tuscaloosa bell
    • Revere Bells Lost in Time
    • Revere Bells Washington DC
    • Revere Bell in Wakefield, Mass
    • Revere Bells Woodstock VT
  • Bostonians
    • Edward F Alexander of The Harvard 20th Civil War Regiment
    • Polly Baker
    • John Wilkes Booth
    • The Mad Hatter, Thomas, Boston Corbett who Killed John Wilkes Booth
    • Richard-Henry-Dana-Jr
    • James Franklin
    • Benjamin Harris of Publick Occurrences
    • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
    • William Lloyd Garrison
    • USS Thomas Hudner DDG116
    • Edward Hutchinson Robbins Revere
    • Amos Lincoln
    • King Philip
    • Mayor's of Boston
    • Mum Bett & Theodore Sedgwick
    • James Otis
    • Paul Joseph Revere
    • Reverend Larkin's Horse
    • John Rowe >
      • John Rowe's Diary Entries
      • John Rowe's Dinner Party
      • John Rowe and the Jail Fire
      • Hang John Rowe?????
      • John Rowe the Fisherman
      • Joh Rowe's Tea Ship
    • Be Proud to be Called a Lucy Stoner
    • Rachel Wall , Pirate
    • Paul Revere the Coroner of Boston
    • Deborah Sampson
    • Who was Mrs. Silence Dogood?
    • Dr. Joseph Warren's Dedication
  • History Blog
  • Lilja's of Natick
    • Lilja Brothers Military History
    • Lilja's Family Album
    • Memorials and Tributes to the Five Lilja Brothers
    • Lilja Family Tree
    • Lilja Historical Family Tree Documents
    • Lilja References
  • Collage of Boston
    • 4th of July Parade, Bristol RI
    • Boston Harbor
    • The Customs House
    • Forest Hills Cemetery
    • Georges Island
    • Nonviolent Monument to Peace - Sherborn
    • The Battle Road
    • Skate bike and scooter park
    • Cassin Young & USS Cassin Young
    • MIT
    • Historic Charles River
    • The Roxbury Standpipe on Fort Hill
    • John & Abigail Adams National Park
  • Boston's Racial History - Ante-Bellum