Freedom Trail

Freedom Trail is a multiplayer reading and writing game for grades 9–12. Race along the Freedom Trail by reading founding documents: find each author’s purpose, paraphrase key lines, analyze structure and rhetoric, and compare documents across history.

Skills: Declaration of Independence, Preamble, Articles I–III and V, Bill of Rights (First, Fourth and Ninth Amendments), Federalist Nos. 10 and 51, Washington's Farewell Address, Declaration of Sentiments, Douglass's “What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?”, Gettysburg Address, Emancipation Proclamation, Lincoln's Second Inaugural, Roosevelt's Four Freedoms: author's purpose and audience, paraphrasing 18th- and 19th-century language, text structure, parallelism, anaphora, antithesis, allusion, rhetorical questions, ethos, historical perspective and comparing documents.

New problems every game, with Easy, Medium and Hard levels. Every miss shows a short explanation.

Standards (Oklahoma OAS first, then national):

OAS 9.2.R.1 · 9.3.R.1–2, 5–7 · 10.2.R.1 · 10.3.R.1–2, 5–7 · 11.2.R.1 · 11.3.R.1–2, 5–7 · 12.2.R.1 · 12.3.R.1–2, 5–7

Common Core: RI.9-10.4–6, 9 · RI.11-12.4–6, 9

What you get: one HTML game file that runs in any browser (Chromebooks, laptops, iPads, smartboards) plus a one-page Quick Start PDF. 1–6 players or teams, no logins, no installs.

Single-teacher license. Included in the Fletcher Math All-Access bundle.