Hello everyone. Yesterday in class we got into groups of 2-3 people. We read this short document and we had to come up with a slogan, an icon, and a poem about this event. This is all connected to the war of 1812 because during this time the national anthem,  "The Star Spangled Banner", was created. Also during this war  there were many slogans that kept the troops going, things like "Don't give up the ship" and others. I found this to be an extremely difficult task; coming up with a slogan and a poem. The image was easy to do which was good. The article that my group had to read was about the Native Americans and their role during this war. Our slogan was "Save the Beavers" because they fought in the Battle of the Beaver Dam. Our image was a picture of a man. Our poem was about the struggle that the head Native American had to deal with. He wanted to unite all the Native American tribes to fight against the Americans. This was a difficult task because all the different tribes spoke a different language which was hard to figure out how to speak all of the different languages. Today we presented our slogans, poems, and images (everyone who didn't present yesterday) and then we talked a little bit about the curse that the head Native American placed on all the presidents who were elected in a year ending with zero and how they died in office. Mr. Boyle listed off all of the presidents who were affected by this and it was very interesting to think about. Tomorrow I will post the picture that we drew I can't post it now do to the short amount of time that we had at the end of class.