Lesson plan for Paul Revere Guided Walking Tour
Audience: eighth grade or higher
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:
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
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
- Captain Jackson’s Chocolate Shop
- 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