This Jackdaw is the appropriate reading level for upper elementary, middle school and high school students reading below grade level. It contains the same, ready-to-use, hands-on historical documents as the original, upper-level Jackdaw; most of the documents are actual-size replicas. The fully reproducible Broadsheets provide historical background for understanding the documents.

The hands-on history in this Jackdaw takes your students from the Boston Tea Party to Bunker Hill and the struggle to field and fund our army. Hands-on documents include a handbill persuading British soldiers to desert, a 1783 issue of the South Carolina Gazette, and early American “home-made” money. Historian: David Johnson, adapted by Muriel L. Dubois & Diane Mayr. The contents of this Jackdaw feature:

• Taxes, Tea and Trouble
• George Washington, Commander-In-Chief
• Why the British Lost the War
• After the War

• Letter to East India Tea Co. defending Boston Tea Party, 1773.
• Map of Boston and the fighting at Bunker Hill, 1775.
• Proclamation by King George III ordering a general fast, 1776.
• Draft of the Declaration of Independence with notes and amendments.
• Declaration of Independence signed by Congress on July 4, 1776.
• Resolve of Congress giving Washington power to raise forces and make people accept paper money, 1776.
• Pages from the journal of British Lieutenant William Digby, 1776-1777.
• Letter: Gen. Heath to Gen. Burgoyne on captured British soldiers, 1778.
• Letter from General Washington to New York Governor Clinton, 1779.
• Issue of the South Carolina Gazette and General Advertiser, 1783.
• Congressional commission to Benjamin Hopkins, 1779.
• American paper money.
• Lottery ticket printed by Americans to raise money for the war, 1776.
• Handbill persuading British soldiers to desert.
• Order of battle: diagrams drawn by George Washington, 1777.
• Captain Cooley’s note authorizing provisions for scouts, 1779.
• Reconnaissance order giving instructions for a mission, 1779.
• General George Washington taking the salute at Trenton, 1776.
• Map of the battlefields of the American Revolution.