Objectives-

1. Student should be able to list the causes of conflict between France and England in North America.

2. Student should be able to label on a map the results of the British victory in the French and Indian War.

3. Student should be able to describe the causes of the Acadien migration after the war.

4. Student should be able to list reasons for tension between the colonists and the British.

Progress of Lesson- To start the lesson we will review the previous lesson on the Enlightenment and

the Great Awakening, stressing the Enlightenment thinkers view of how governments should be

organized. I will mention that our American Revolution had examples of Enlightenment thinking

behind it, but before we get to the American Revolution, we have to set the stage for it and that would be

the French and Indian War. I will ask the students to refer to the notes they were given in the previous

class and to look at the section on the French and Indian War. We will review the material with discussion

and maps, stressing the key players in the conflict. To demonstrate the ending and results of the war, I

will ask the students what they had for dinner last night. One of the students may have had some "cajun"

style food. I will ask the kid if he realized they were taking a bite out of the French and Indian war when

they had that food. I'll ask what language do some people in Louisiana speak? I'll then tell the story of the

Acadiens (French in Canada) who refused to pledge their allegiance to the British after the French and

Indian War and they were kicked out of Canada, migrating down the Mississippi river to Louisiana. I'll

mention some of the French names along the Mississippi and in Louisiana and say that is why they are

called that. I'll then pass out the song "Acadien Driftwood" by The Band and play the song while

showing slides that are synchronized with the music. We will review the slides a second time and then

discuss the lyrics off the song which are:

The war was over and the spirit was broken

The hills were smoking as the men withdrew

We stood on the cliffs and watched the ships

Slowly sinking to their rendezvous

They signed a treaty and our homes were taken

Loved ones forsaken, they didn't give a damn

Try to raise a family, end up the enemy

Over what went down on the Plains of Abraham

Chorus: Acadien driftwood, gypsy tailwind

They call my home the land of snow

Canadian cold front, moving in

What a way to ride, what a way to go

Then some returned to the motherland

The high command had them cast away

Some stayed on to finish what they started

They never parted, they're just built that way

We had kin living south of the border

They're a little older and they been around

They wrote in a letter life is a whole lot better

So pull up your stakes children and come on down

Chorus

15 under zero when the day became a threat

My clothes were wet and I was drenched to the bone

Went out ice-fishing, too much repetition

Makes a man want to leave the only home he's known

Sailed out of the gulf heading for St. Pierre

Nothing to declare all we had was gone

Broke down along the coast

But what hurt the most

When the people there said

"You better keep moving on"

Chorus

Everlasting summer filled with ill content

The government had us walking in chains

This isn't my turf, this ain't my season

Can't think of one good reason to remain

We worked in the sugar fields up from New Orleans

It was evergreen up until the flood

You could call it an old one, point you were you're going

Set my compass north I got winter in my blood

Chorus

Sais tu A-ca-di-e jÉai la mal du pays

{You know Acadia I long for the country (I am homesick)}

Ta niege Acadie, fait des larmes au soleil

(Your snow, Acadia is made from tears of the sun)

We will then return to the notes and add to them and discuss up to the Boston Tea Party and Lexington and

Concord. I will then give a reading assignment based on Lexington and Concord, an excerpt from the

book The Birth of the Republic. The students will answer the following questions from the reading:

1. What point were the colonists (soon to be Americans) making when they confronted the British

soldiers in Lexington? (read the entire article before trying to answer this question)

2. Why were the British going to Concord?

3. What was different about the fighting at Lexington compared to the fighting as the British were

returning from Concord?

4. Describe in your own wrods what is happenning in the first 5 sentences of the 2nd last paragraph.