A "best practice" of gifted education is to start with the big idea and then fill in the content. It didn't take long to understand the big idea of unfairness as we role-played King George the Third of Great Britain unfairly taxing the American Colonists. As you can see in the last video, we get the big idea but we don't quite have the big words yet!
King George III was in need of money, lots of it. Great Britain had been in several wars and her coffers were empty. So, he did what every needy king would do, he basically said to his Parliament, "We need money. Come up with some taxes. Oh, and yes, tax those pesky Colonists!"
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| King George III "We need money! Parliament, do something!" |
So the Parliament started making tax decrees!
1 bean if you have shoe laces
2 beans if you don't have shoe laces
3 beans if you are wearing socks. Oh, 3 for each sock!
4 beans if you have a cat. 8 if you have 2 cats!
8 beans if you have a dog. Each dog!
10 beans if you attend Seabury school!
And so it continued....
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| The TaxCollector "Give me your taxes!" |
...until the Colonists ran out of beans. It was so unfair. Why was Great Britain getting all the beans and they didn't have any power to say no? What could they do about it?
So the Colonists--well, the Patriots anyway--started banding together and saying, "No Taxation without Representation!!"
And hopefully King George will start listening, or else....
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