![]() ![]() Paul Revere saw two lights hanging in Christ Church in Boston, signaling that the British would row across the Charles River to Cambridge and continue to Lexington.On April 18, 1775, Paul Revere was asked to ride to Lexington, Massachusetts, to warn Samuel Adams and John Hancock that the British troops were coming to arrest them. ![]() The true story of Paul Revere's ride is on the Paul Revere House website. Follow their route through the New England countryside on an interactive map. Today he is best known as one of the horseback messengers who rode from Boston to Lexington to warn colonists of the approaching British army. As Revere and others galloped along the twisting, hilly road from Boston to Lexington, they passed farms, small villages, rivers, and lakes. Paul Revere was the American Revolutionary Boston craftsman and patriot made famous in William Wadsworth Longfellow's poem, Paul Revere's Ride. For more information see the links at the end of the lesson. In the Picturing America Teachers Resource Book, read chapter 3-A on The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere, 1931, where you will also find activities and questions to help students begin their study of Wood's painting of Revere's ride. Visit the National Gallery of Art website for a short biography of Grant Wood. By reading primary sources, students learn how Paul Revere and his Midnight Ride became an American story of patriotism. This lesson encourages close study of Wood's painting, American Revolution primary sources, and Longfellow's poem to understand the significance of this historical ride in America's struggle for freedom. Wood based his 1931 painting on Longfellow's heroic poem with no attempt to make it historically accurate. Only a few people who had been children during the Revolution were still alive in 1860 when he wrote Paul Revere's Ride. Longfellow wrote his poem 88 years after the event when he found letters belonging to his grandfather, who had known Revere. Like poet Henry Wordsworth Longfellow, Wood wished to tell and preserve stories of the American Revolution. Grant Wood painted American scenes and subjects during the first half of the 20th century in a simplified style reminiscent of American folk art. While many students know this historical event, this lesson allows them to explore the true story of Paul Revere and his journey through primary source readings as well as to compare artist Grant Wood's and poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's interpretations of it. An interdisciplinary lesson focusing on Paul Revere's Midnight Ride. ![]()
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