Everything you need to understand or teach My Brother Sam Is Dead by James Lincoln Collier.
The Collier brothers have written a moving fictional account of the Revolutionary War's disruption of a small Connecticut village. America gained its independence at a great price. Students may think of all the colonists as patriots dedicated to liberation, but as My Brother Sam Is Dead makes clear, such was not the case. The revolutionaries met with great opposition from many loyal supporters of England, their mother country. The emotions that divided the...
My Brother Sam Is Dead Lesson Plans contain 124 pages of teaching material, including: