Patrick Henry and Paul Revere

Describe Henry's speeches and Revere's ride.

Warm-up, learn, try it together, practice, then a quick check. About 15 minutes.

What children learn in Level 18

Words could be weapons. In March 1775, Patrick Henry stood in a Virginia church and urged his colony to get ready to fight.
He's remembered for saying: Give me liberty, or give me death. No one wrote his words down that day, so they come to us from people's memories. But they became a Patriot battle cry.
In Boston, Paul Revere was a silversmith and a Son of Liberty. Patriots hid weapons in the town of Concord, and spies watched the British for signs of a march.
On the night of April 18, 1775, lanterns in the Old North Church signaled that British soldiers were crossing the water. One if by land, two if by sea.
Revere and others, like William Dawes, rode through the dark to wake the militia. British soldiers stopped Revere, but the warning got through. And he probably didn't shout “The British are coming!” Most colonists still thought of themselves as British.

Georgia Standards of Excellence in Social Studies:

SS4H1.b — Describe the influence of key individuals and groups during the American Revolution: King George III, George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Benedict Arnold, Patrick Henry, John Adams, Paul Revere, and Black regiments.