REVOLUTION IN THE MID-HUDSON: SELECTED SOURCES FOR TEACHERS

This guide was created to help teachers bring primary source based stories of the Mid-Hudson region in the Revolutionary War into the classroom. The counties covered are: Orange, Ulster, Sullivan, and Dutchess.

Lesson Plans

Hudson River Valley Institute Lesson Plans on the Revolutionary War can be found at: https://www.hudsonrivervalley.org/lesson-plans; the plans are:
- A Suspected Loyalist: Roeloff Josiah Eltinge (Grades 11-12)
- Women Rioters of the American Revolution (Grades 11-12)
- Causes of American Revolution (Grade 11)
- An Empire in the Balance (Grade 11, A.P.)
- Battle of Saratoga (Grade 11)
- Benedict Arnold Lesson Plan (Grade 4)
- Locating and Constructing the Chain Across the Hudson (Grade 4)
- Economics of the Revolution (Grade 7,11)
- Geography of the American Revolution (Grade 11, A.P.)
- Loyalists in the American Revolution (Grade 7,8)
- Mapping the Revolution in the Hudson Valley (Grade 4)
- Stamp Act: Virtual Representation vs. Actual Representation (Grade 11)
- Sybil Ludington (Grade 4)
- Timeline of the Revolution (Grade 4)
- Full "Unit Plan" on the American Revolution (Grade 4)
- Washington's Encampment at Fredericksburgh (Grade 7)
- Declaration of Independence (Grade 5)
- Articles of Confederation Unit Plan (Grade 11)

New York State Archives Curriculum Tools
Lesson plans based on primary docs, some Revolutionary War content; good model for adapting to local documents.
Treason During the American Revolution
Curriculum on "traitors" and loyalists during the Revolution, in New York State, with focus on Benedict Arnold treason.