Four self-contained history escapes for grades 9–12. Students analyze Enlightenment sources, reconstruct the ratification debate, weigh competing historical interpretations, and dissect rhetoric — cracking four locks each. No logins, no prep, runs in any browser.
Trace the Declaration's ideas to Locke and the Enlightenment — natural rights, consent, the social contract — and what Jefferson changed.
Open breakout ▶Reconstruct Federalist vs. Anti-Federalist arguments and trace how the Bill of Rights broke the deadlock.
Open breakout ▶Tell established fact from interpretation, and judge competing arguments about the Revolution by their evidence.
Open breakout ▶Identify ethos, pathos, and logos in the Declaration — and catch a planted logical fallacy.
Open breakout ▶Each breakout works as a bellringer, seminar warm-up, station, or short analytical task. Project it for whole-class discussion, or let students work the sources in pairs. Every lock ends with a short why so the reasoning sticks, not just the answer.