The last two days in class we have been finishing up the revolution unit. Yesterday in class we looked at art from the revolution. It took up the whole class period. I felt that it was very interesting but I didn't think it needed to take a hour long. I realize how much time must have been put into making it but I don't think we really needed to learn about it. Today we took our quiz on the deceleration of independence and then we just wrapped up what happened at the end of the American revolution. Tomorrow we have the history test. 

For the life of me right now I cannot remember what we did in class on Friday. Today though we went on a scavenger hunt around the first floor of the school. I really enjoyed this because we got out of the classroom for once. I think it would be really fun if we did the scavenger hunt if we do it again that is around the entire school. On thing that I might change if I could might be to make shorter questions... Just a thought and another thing that I would do is maybe allow people to choose their groups. I understand why that wouldn't work though because there are only so many people in class who have a device... But that's what I think would just make it better. One other thing that make it more fun is if its for more points if you get first place.
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In the last voice thread that I did, both moderation and resourcefulness are in the same voice thread. I just put them in the same slide by accident.

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Yesterday and today this week were a little crazy. Yesterday in class due to the PSAT testing our class was shortened and we didn't really do much. We just got into very large groups and explained the part of the decleration that we had to summerize and share that with our group. Today I honestly hated. The sub honestly just talked no one knew what were soppose to be really doing and we didn't undersatnd the reading...like at all. The sub said that we couldn't get into groups to figure out what the heak the reading was saying and then on top of that I personally didn't know any of the battles refrence in the reading. I think almost everyone would agree that it was a very confusing class. I only had 15 minutes to write an essay that I really didn't get what I was writing it about. The sub literally talked on and on and on. Altogether it was very difficult to consentrate on the essay and the reading. If I do wicked bad on the essay I wrote the entire thing in a paragraph and I feel like everyone else felt a little rushed into finnishing it before the bell rang.

The last two days in class we presented our presentations and we began to look at the Decleration of Independence. Yesterday we got up in front of the class and spoke about the person that we learned about. I had John Adams who was the vice pisedant to George Washington and he was the second presidant of the US. One fact that I really found intresting about him was that he stood up for British soldiers after the Boston Massacere because he felt that they wouldn't get a fair trial. He didn't like the British but he helped these soldiers. Today we took a part of the decleration and summerized what was being said in it. We then went to the website where we then created a fake twitter account. I don't know if I'm soppose to embed it in my blog or not so I will anyways. My group had the first paragraph or the intruduction and the summery will be on the fake twitter account once I post it. 

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The last two days in class we began to talk a little bit about the battle of Bunker Hill and the articals Common Sense and The Plain Truth. Yesterday we talked about the battles that the colonists and the British had. The colonists had a hudge advantage against the British. They knew the land and they knew where the roads ended and where the roads went. They used this stratagey to launch suprise attacks at the British. By doing this they were able to get the British into Boston. By doing this they then surrounded Boston with their military groups. Today in class we learned about the people who wrote common sense and plain truth. Common Sense was written by a man who believed that the colonies should in fact break away from England. The Plain Truth was written by a man who felt that they should stay with England. He pointed out in his peice that the British had their back during the French and Indian war and there for they should stay with England.

The last two days in class we talked mostly about Paul Revere's ride. We got into pairs and looked at a sheet with important key things that happened when Paul Revere and the others rode and told everyone that the British were coming. We looked at the poem that was written about  Paul Revere and his ride. We then had to create another poem and use these key points in it. It was a challenge because of the rhyme scheme and you had to try and find the right words to go into it. Over all it was a fun activity though. We also got back our tests that we took and we received the next big project. Today in class we looked at how eye witness accounts may not always be true. We read a persons view on what really happened the night of the Boston massacre and who fired the first shot. We found the majority of them was false if you were British then you blamed it on the Americans and if you we're American then you blamed the British. There was one account written a week after the event written by a British soldier. In his legal paper he wrote that he didn't know who fired the first shot but he knew that the British fired the next one. This man took the blame for something's and for others he said the Americans did it. We found this to be one of the more likely true statements but it was still written a week later so it may have happened differently then the way it was written. We also watched a video on how eye witnesses sometimes get it wrong that they don't always get it right and blame the wrong person or they just don't remember the real events that well expecially if it was a week or more after the actual event occurred. I found this Ted talks video very interesting and hope that we watch so more in the future they really help to put things into the right light. And they get you. Thinking about everything that is happening.

The last two days of class this is what we did... We got into groups yesterday and made a power point on our topic. Then we prepared for the Ed cafe that we had today. The Ed cafe today that we had was all about the stamp act and the Boston massacre and the Intolerable acts. My topic was the Intolerable acts. It didn't go that well for me because I was sick and no one could really understand me but basically the Intolerable acts were put in place because Parliament wanted to punish the colonies, especially Massachusetts, for their behavior. In this act it was said that the people now had to get the governor's approval before you were allowed to hold a meeting. Also if you were an official and committed a crime with the penalty of death now had to go to England for trial. Parliament wanted Massachusetts to pay for the tea that they dumped in the harbor during the Boston Tea Party. Many people felt that this however would be a step backwards. Massachusetts knew that they couldn't stand against Britain by themselves so they sent Paul Revere to go and gather people from other colonies. The colonies all felt that Boston's punishment would affect all of America's ports. Instead of dividing the colonies the Intolerable acts instead brought the colonies closer together. In June 1774 Parliament went even further and got the colonies even more angry. They created a royal government in Canada and extended the Quebec province even farther down to the Ohio Valley. Colonists felt that London was giving Canada better treatment when the Americans were being punished. This just made colonists very upset.

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The last two days of class we read a passage and took notes on the reading. I wasn't in school on Friday so I don't really know what we did in class. All I know is that the class disscussed the packet that i recived on Thursday. Today in class we read about Washington. We talked about how he went to fort DeQuesve that was in New France, a place that England did't own, and captured it. But soon afterwards it was retaken by the French. The reason why the British wanted the land so much was because they wanted farmland to grow tobacco. This then became the French and Indian war. It  then ended in 1763 with the British winning. There was a slight problem though, the Indians who lived there were angry. To protect the colonies there was a line put between the two places. The people were very angry and it was known as "Salutory Neglect".