For the days on we are working on our immigrant guides.

In the Bush doctrine fish bowl I was the con side. I was very passionate ad had to think really hard about what the other side would say and how I would respond. over all I think that the con side was better because the doctrine could potentially ruin many relationships.

Its the 16% day

Hations react to the USA

Everything I Hati right has such angry vibe. They are so upset with the U.S. That they even are planning an uprising to try and claim back that they are strong to the U.S. They have had every single one of their rights taken away as well as their house hold items that have been taken by the army. Everyone here is going nuts. They still controlled by another country which is no what they want, they want to be a free independent nation. All the U.S. can hope for now is that there is no revolt or uprising from them after they talk things out. I am nervous for everyone and hope that nothing bad comes out of this new arrangement and that each side can see past their differences and work together.

We analyzed two pictures from the Sophia in class and discussed what was going on. It was about how the US made the panama canal and what they had to do it. we also read a speech about the same event. I really enjoyed our discussion today and t cleared up all my confusion about how the canal was madde

I love Yellow Journalism. As bad as that sounds, I love when there are catchy titles the create scenarios that are often far from what the truth really is. Today and yesterday in class we made titles for around 8 different articles that were done be using yellow journalism. Today we went from section to section and chose the ones we liked best, some were very good while others cold have used a bit more exaggeration for my taste but over all I really liked this activity and would do it again for sure!

The Week of MCAS torture. We really didn't do much in class other than hang out because Mr boyle was in charge of the MCAS rooms so we really had nothing schedualed except for the 16%.

today in class we did a fish bowl activity. I was chosen to be in a group that represented the presidents actions of moving the Indians outside of the state with out government permeation. Although at first I didn't agree with this move, while thinking of ways to support my groups arguments, I was some what intrigued by all of the good things about him doing this. One good thing that it would prevent the tribe from becoming a part of the American government and culture, which was what they wanted, and if they would have stayed in the middle then eventually they would had or a huge war would have broke out between the Indians and the locals. Even though the president did go about his the wrong way it wasn't all bad and there were a few good points to why. Now i'm not quite sure what I believe but I do know that it could be see as both a good and bad move.

Today in class we read a poem and then compared it to another poem that was modeled after that poem. Then we were chosen to create our version of that poem by comparing the two and using similar word. The two poems were very different but I noticed that the common theme was a culture or ethnicity was writing about how they are treated and how they are different and are looked down on. These poems made me think that if all the people in one way or another felt mistreated than why would they treat others who they believe are less than them bad as well. I believe that if you know what its like to be treated badly that you would show more compassion towards others.

Oregon Trail Game

in between the drops and subs

Movie, Movie, Movie! when Mr. Boyle announced we would be watching a movie in class while he was out i couldn't have been more excited. He told us we would be watching an old western and i was even more excited. learning about how cowboys really were in class prior to the movie i was excited to see how the two compare. Watching the movie i thought it was exciting, the cowboys had to make choices much like the real people, choices like where to go/ what route to take/what to bring/ who to bring? in the movie we got more a visual of how the cowboys were. I like to think that real life cowboys were similar to the ones in the movie. i loved the movie and felt it helped me picture the life of a cowboy better than any article or picture would.

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.

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