April 24th

I walked into class unsure of what we were doing when i saw the set up of the class room. I started off in the stand section, where my group had to determine the best way to set up a prairie house and what we would do when the seasons change and how the inside set up would be. At the Sit station you had to sit while your picture was taken for a minute. As my picture was being taken i could feel myself shaking, i realized how hard it must of been for those people who posed in the photos on the prairie. At the smell station we smeled what our houses would be made of...SOD! The sod smelled like the lawn mower clipping in a bag. I didn't think it smelled overly bad but under the conditions in the praiie i can imagine it smelled ten times worse. Seeing all of the things that the Prairie life didn't have make e thankful for how i live today, i don't know if prairie life would be well suited for me.

April 22

We started our Smithsonian badges today, it was the first day back from vacation so i found it hard to focus through out the day but i enjoyed coming into class and having an opportunity to work on what i wanted to.

april 10th

Its skit day. Now im no actress, so i was a bit uneasy about going infont of my classmates and trying to portray myself in our manifest destiny skit. i was a salesman trying to convince a family to move west. although the content was present in everyones, i did not like doing the skits, i may not be shy in discussion but i don't like going and standing infront of the class.

April 8th

We had a sub today and had to do a bunch of worksheets, it was one of our rather boring classes with no discussion, I missed that we didn't have any class discussion today.

april 3rd

in between accuplacer tests and a quick inclass project I found it a great way to end the week. In class we got into groups of two and we had to think of a slogan icon, and a poem. I got partnered with my Friend Megan M. It seems like anytime I have a project with poetry in this class megan m is my partner. We worked really well and came up with our poem with ease and icon. Our slogan was "We protect our own Ehhh." because we had the Canadians point of view.

Day 6

In class I originally was in the impressment group. After hearing everyone's groups present I decided to switch sided to the orders of council. the main influence on my switch was that the orders of council seemed to me to be the only problem that effected the whole country. The other problems all contributed to the problem but more so caused internal conflict between the US and what they were dealing with going on in their country. the fact that Britain was controlling their lives again when the reason that the US cut all ties with Britain were due to them wanting to control them made them upset and was kind of the last straw. Most people agreed with me in the sense that this was why the war started.  

April 1st

So in class we worked on a in class type project in the computer lab. when we were in the computer lab we went on an interactive expedition where we had to decide on what path we wanted to take on an expedition with lewis and clark. In the activity we made our own mistakes as well as chose what we wanted to do. through this activity we had to write journal entries about what we chose and why we chose it. Over all I found this activity helpful and fun for understanding how important these decisions were.