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=**Day 1** = //A child is talking to a man at the park. He soon realizes that the man he is talking to is Paul Revere.//

**Child:** Hello sir. You're Paul Revere! **Paul Revere:** Yes, young man, I am. **Child:** I have heard a lot about your Midnight Ride, but that is really all I know about you. Can you tell me more about your life? **Paul Revere:** Sure. I was born on January 1, 1735, in Boston, Massachusetts. I was the third of twelve children. **Child:** You had 11 sisters and brothers? Did you go to school? **Paul Revere:** Yes. I received my education at North Writing School, while also learning the art of gold and silversmith. My father was a silversmith. I learned a lot of what I know from him. **Child**: Wow!!! That sounds interesting! **Paul Revere**: It is, but I had to use those skills at an early age. **Child:** Why? **Paul Revere:** My father died when I was 19. That left me as the main source of income for the family, since I was the oldest living male. **Child:** That had to be a lot of responsibility. **Paul Revere:** It was, but I had to take care of my family.

=**Day 2** = //The next day the man sees the child at the park again.// <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">**Paul Revere:** Young man, we meet again. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">**Child:** Yes sir. I was hoping to see you again. I want to know more about you. How long did you have to take care of your family? <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;"> **Paul Revere:** I continued to take care of my family for about two more years. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">**Child:** What did you do after that? <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">**Paul Revere:** I was a soldier during the French and Indian War. I volunteered to fight the French at Lake George in New York and was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the colonial artillery. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">**Child:** Were you married? <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">**Paul Revere:** I was married two times. I married my first wife in 1757. Her name was Sarah Orne. We had eight children.

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">**Child:** When did you marry your second wife? <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">**Paul Revere:** After my first wife died in 1773, I married my second wife, Rachel Walker. We also had eight children. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">**Child:** You were truly a great man! I have to go now. It was nice talking to you, Mr. Revere. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">**Paul Revere:** It was my pleasure, young man.

=<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">**Day 3** = <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">//(////Teacher talks to group of student)// = = <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">**Teacher:** We have been talking recently about positive character traits. What positive character traits does Paul Revere have? <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">**Student 1:** Nice <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">**Student 2:** Happy? <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">**Teacher:** Those are good traits to have but let’s think about our character trait vocabulary words. Which word means to feel or show sympathy or concern for others? <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">**Student 1:** Compassionate! <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">**Teacher:** Right! Paul Revere was compassionate by thinking of others and their saftey by warning them that the Britsh was coming! <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">**Teacher:** Who can give me another positive character trait of Paul Revere? <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">**Student 2:** Diligent <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">**Teacher:** Great! Can you explain to the class why diligent is a good word to describe Paul Revere? <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">**Student 2:** Diligence means to work very hard. Paul Revere worked at many jobs to take care of his family and country. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">**Student 3:** I have one! I have one! <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">**Teacher:** Yes, what can you add to our list? <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">**Student 3:** Liberty <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">**Teacher:** Why do you say that? <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">**Student 3:** Because to want liberty means to want freedom from control of others. Paul Revere worked hard for liberty from British rule. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">**Teacher:** Wow! You guys are thinking hard to get to the root of Paul Revere. Do we have anymore character traits? <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">**Student 1:** Selfless servant <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">**Student 2:** Honest <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">**Student 3:** Courageous <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">**Teacher:** We have discussed a lot of great character traits for Paul Revere today. What is one trait of Paul Revere you can use today in school? <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">**Student 1:** I can be diligent in my work! <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">**Teacher:** I like that one fantastic!!! <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Paul Revere is remembered in a lot of different ways. How might you pay tribute to Paul Revere?

=<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">**Day 4** = <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">(//Paul Revere is talking to a child visiting Boston….)// <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">**Child:** Mr. Revere… Why is there a statue of you here in Boston? <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">**Paul:** I did a lot to help us gain our independence from Britain. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">**Child:** Really? What stuff did you do that was so great? <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">**Paul:** I created a famous engraving of the Boston Massacre that helped stir up anger towards the British. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">**Child:** What else did you do that was so great that you got a statue? <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">**Paul:** I was a member of the Sons of Liberty. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">**Child:** Sons of Liberty? What did they do? <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">**Paul:** They were a group of men that played a very important role in the American Revolution. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">**Child:** Very important role? What’s something great that they did? <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">**Paul:** We dresses up as Mohawk Indians and tossed 342 chests of tea into the Boston Harbor to protest the Tea Act. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">**Child:** Wow ! Did you do anything else exciting with the Sons of Liberty? <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">**Paul:** I was a courier and carried messages to other colonies. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">**Child:** Big deal! You delivered mail. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">**Paul:** I did more than just deliver mail. I had to deliver one of the most important messages ever. I had to warn… <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">**Child** (thinking): What important message was Paul suppose to deliver? Did he get there in time? =<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">**Day 5** =

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">**Paul:** Let me tell you how delivering one message shaped our country. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">//(Visuals shift to the time of the actual “Midnight Ride”)// <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">It was late on the night of April 18th 1775. I was sent to warn my friends Samuel Adams and John Hancock that the British troops were planning to arrest them. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">I had to take a boat from Boston to Charlestown. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Once in Charlestown I picked up a horse from my good friend John Larkin. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">I had to ride to Lexington to warn Sam and John that they were in danger, I decided on the way that I should let everyone know of the danger they might be in….

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">I could swear I yelled from Charlestown to Lexington!...I must have stopped at every house on the way! <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Well…I finally made it to warn Sam and John after that I headed to Concord to try and find weapons and supplies. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Most folks don’t know that I was arrested by the British Patrol on that night… <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">I had to stay in jail for a few days but, I made it out just in time to catch the Battle of Lexington Common…most folks think this is what started the Revolutionary War. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">//(Returns back to statue area with child)// <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">**Child:** Wow Mr. Revere…I guess you really do deserve a statue! =**<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Day 6 **= <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">**Child:** Hello Mr. Revere <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">**Paul Revere:** Hello young man. We meet again. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">**Child**: Yes sir. I really enjoyed talking to you the other day and would like to know more about you. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">**Paul Revere:** Okay. What would you like to know? <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">**Child:** What was life like for you after the Revolutionary War? <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">**Paul Revere:** After the war, times were hard. There was a depression and the silver business was not doing very well. I needed to support my family, so I opened a hardware store. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">**Child:** Was it successful? <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">**Paul Revere:** Yes, but my biggest success came in the metal business. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">**Child:** That sounds interesting. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">**Paul Revere**: It was a very good business for me and I played an important role in moving the metal business forward. I opened the first copper mill in Canton, Massachusetts, in 1801. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">**Child:** What was the name of your business? <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">**Paul Revere:** Revere Copper Company. Over time, my company grew and became national. The name then became Revere Copper and Brass, Inc. The company is still in operation today. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">**Child:** Your company has been in business for a long time. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">**Paul Revere:** Yes it has. You can see much of my work on display in many museums, including the Boston Museum of Fine Arts.