 We do a lot of language arts and social studies integration because it is Virginia studies so what we try to do is select novels that will support the curriculum so we are You know about we just finished the Revolutionary War In building a new nation, which is what my class right now is reviewing for can anybody kind of Refresh our memory about the setting of the story and some important events that have happened in the story Um, it's it's a hort historical fiction story and so like the kids were fake, but the Revolutionary War part of the story was all real and like um It's it's mainly about George Washington They were basically in 1776 or 1775 so like they were back in the day Um, they were like where people said weird words from one now, right, right? Like the sneakers right there and the band-aid and and a whole bunch of things. It's called George Washington socks it's um, I think it was written like in 1990 1991 in It's a historical fiction about a group of children who start this adventure club and lo and behold they end up finding this boat and One of the girls gets into the boat and it's it's like a you know back to the future kind of thing And it's really focuses on one little boy who is a soldier Well, one of the most important events in the story was when they crossed the Delaware River Remember when they were in that boat? So that's what we're gonna explore today and we're I'm gonna start it with a Passage that I found in this book. This is called when Washington crossed the Delaware And it's called a wintertime story for young patriots. What's a patriot? Sophia But I want you to listen to this passage and as you're listening I want you to imagine that you your sufferers in that you're in that boat because you can feel how bitter cold it is and how Frosty it is and how treacherous it is treacherous. It is so just listen on Christmas night 1776 General Washington led 2,400 men the main body of his army to a crossing point about nine miles upstream from Trenton There the soldiers crowded into large black boats that would take them to the opposite shore The night was cold and the men faced a difficult crossing They had to break through the ice to get the boats into the river They had to fend off large chunks of the floating ice once they were underway But Washington had seafarers with him that night. What do you think a seafarer is? Luke Okay, somebody has more experience on the sea who knew how to navigate treacherous waters the sailors of Massachusetts Marblehead Battalion maneuvered boat after boat across the icy river as soon as they got one group of men to the New Jersey Shore They returned to pick up another And guys here is a good primary source just in this story. It's a quote The force of the current the sharpness of the frost the ice which made during the operation Rendered the passage of the river extremely difficult That's James Wilkerson. He's a major in the Continental Army. So we're going to use Washington's crossing the Delaware to Explore and analyze some primary sources. I feel like the more Information and the the different modalities that I can use certainly with this group of students that I have I think it it'll help them when it's time to sit down and remember Just this mass amount of facts for Virginia studies