1.  Use one of the following mixtures to make your own Invisible Ink:

• lemon, grapefruit or orange juice
• milk
• sugar or salt water (teaspoon in a cup of water)
• white vinegar

2.  Pick one page from your favorite book, make sure it has a lot of words on it!  Assign numbers to the words on the page to make your own  Secret Code.  Use the words to compose a message to send to a friend.  Write a letter using the numbers.  Send it to a friend to decode.

3.  Write a secret letter in a letter.   Make a Mask Letter by cutting holes in a piece of newspaper to match your secret words.  Send a friend the letter and the mask.  Don't give them the letter and the mask at the same time!

4.  Look at the Stamp Act Funeral and Bostonians in Distress political drawings.  How did the colonists use these cartoons to raise support for their cause?  How are the British portrayed in these cartoons?  How are the Americans portrayed in these cartoons?  What symbols did the artists use to get across their point?  Find a recent political cartoon in the newspaper.  Are political cartoons still used in the same way?

5.  Look at Paul Revere's Boston Massacre engraving.  Discuss how the colonists got the latest news about current events without television and radio.  Discuss why this engraving was so popular before and during the Revolution.  Compare this engraving to current photographs of war.  Do photographs make you feel less or more sympathetic with the people in the photos?

6.  Look at the print of the Battle of Bunker's Hill.  How does this image portray the American Revolution?  Look closely at the right hand corner.  Do you see a black man behind the soldier with the feather in his hat?  His name was Peter Salem and he was the servant of Lt. Grosvenor (soldier with the feather in his hat).  He fought bravely in several of the major battles of the Revolution.  Discuss why Salem was painted on the edge of the canvas, behind Lt. Grosvenor.   Discuss why so little is known about the black men and women who participated in the American Revolution.  Find out more about black heroes of the American Revolution.

7.  Divide the class into two groups.  Have one side be loyalist colonists and one side be patriots.  Let the groups debate the reasons why they would chose to remain loyal to the British crown or why they would side with the rebel colonists.