Freedom Trail
Race along the Freedom Trail by reading founding documents: find each author’s purpose, paraphrase key lines, analyze structure and rhetoric, and compare documents across history.
Try it free with your class: the demo runs right in your browser for 5 questions or 5 minutes, whichever comes first. No sign-up needed.
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What students practice
Declaration of Independence, Preamble, Articles I–III and V, Bill of Rights (First, Fourth and Ninth Amendments), Federalist Nos. 10 and 51, Washington's Farewell Address, Declaration of Sentiments, Douglass's “What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?”, Gettysburg Address, Emancipation Proclamation, Lincoln's Second Inaugural, Roosevelt's Four Freedoms: author's purpose and audience, paraphrasing 18th- and 19th-century language, text structure, parallelism, anaphora, antithesis, allusion, rhetorical questions, ethos, historical perspective and comparing documents
Standards
OAS 9.2.R.1 · 9.3.R.1–2, 5–7 · 10.2.R.1 · 10.3.R.1–2, 5–7 · 11.2.R.1 · 11.3.R.1–2, 5–7 · 12.2.R.1 · 12.3.R.1–2, 5–7
Common Core: RI.9-10.4–6, 9 · RI.11-12.4–6, 9
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How it works
- Open the game file in any web browser: Chromebooks, laptops or your smartboard. No accounts, no student logins and no internet needed once it's downloaded.
- Enter the players or teams, then press Start.
- Students take turns on one shared screen, so the whole class can play together on a projector or smartboard.
- Each purchase includes the game file and a one-page Quick Start guide.
