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It's Walking Tour Weather!
MEET AMERICA'S FIRST ROCK STAR! A QUICK LESSON ON LAFAYETTE'S FAREWELL TOUR
This enrichment curriculum is designed to help prepare your students for the many events and activities available during this historic celebration of the Nation's Guest! An Itinerary for Families with Children is also included!
Itinerary for Families with Children (pdf)
DownloadCreative Activities.docx (pdf)
DownloadJames Fayette - Double agent (pdf)
DownloadJames Fayette Abolitionist articles (pdf)
DownloadJames Fayette - What's in a Name (pdf)
DownloadEarly Life (pdf)
DownloadEarly Life - Mill to Music (pdf)
DownloadHero - Book - Lafayette Hero of Two Worlds (pdf)
DownloadHero - Video and crosswords Lafayette the Hero of Two Worlds (pdf)
DownloadSoldier - Lafayette as a soldier.docx (pdf)
DownloadLafayette the Soldier - Lafayette Arrives complete lesson pack (pdf)
DownloadNation's Guest - 2 videos (pdf)
DownloadLearn about the many October events including
THE BIG DAY: OCTOBER 25th
when Williamsburg interpreter Mark Schneider portrays General Lafayette as we commemorate Lafayette's Return to Portsmouth!
History books call him "James Armistead Lafayette", but he never went by his enslaver's name (Armistead). Once emancipated, he signed his name in a bold hand:
James Fayette
See Steven Alexander interpret this American Hero!
is part of a national event sponsored by the
American Friends of Lafayette
that begins in New York City next month, and continues with celebrations wherever Lafayette visited on the actual month and day he visited!