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Update
01-01-2015
Content Type
Lesson Plan
Grade Level
Sixth grade, Seventh grade, Eighth grade
Object Type
PPT
License
Read the fine print

Students explore and describe Emmanuel Leutze’s painting “George Washington Crossing the Delaware” and research the artist, the Revolutionary War at the time depicted, and the work itself. They then write and perform a one-act play dramatizing the events and action leading up to the crossing.