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.

Grades 9–12Board race1–6 players or teamsNo student loginsWorks offline

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Screenshot of Freedom Trail in the middle of a game

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

Great for

Whole-class review on the smartboard, literacy centers, test prep, early finishers and sub plans. No prep and no student logins.

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

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.