By+The+Sword+Reinforcing+Activity

This book is great for teaching a unit on the Revolutionary War. After reading this book, students can talk about different people who made impacts at the time of this war. As a unit project, students can pick a historical figure from this time period to research. While researching they can compare their historical figure to that of Benjamin Tallmadge. Some people they could research are
 * George Washington
 * Thomas Jefferson
 * Paul Revere
 * Ben Franklin
 * John Adams

Teachers could have them do a research paper on this figure, or this could be tied into language arts by having students write a historical fiction piece about their historical figure of choice. This will require students to do a significant amount of research on this figure and time period, but also allows them to get creative. If the teacher wants to go further, they can have students dress up like their person that they picked to research and do a presentation.