March 7

Ancient and Modern Egypt are both really fun to explore. In school we each had 2 categories of civilization that we explored and made a museum to display our information.  We took a survey of a lot of the kids in the school to see what they like to see and do in museums. The thing that had the most likes was interactive activities. So we had to include interactive activities.

There were many different ways that people displayed the information. My group displayed our information about technology with a video. In the video we answered 5 different questions 3 about ancient technology and 2 about modern technology. Then to show ancient writing we made paper look old and put out little pieces of paper so that the kids could write their name on them. Then we wrote in hieroglyphics on one of the papers and put it up for display for them to touch (result of the survey), we also wrote a sign above the page with hieroglyphics that showed the information. For modern writing we displayed a poem about the culture of Egypt and explained it. To make the museum more fun we added one more interactive activity. We made a ring toss and had a question from every area and asked one to the kids. If they got the question right then they got to have 2 trys to make it and if they did they got a starburst.

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May 7

3 things I learned from reading “Steps to ratify the Constitution”

Out of reading this page I learned that the bill of rights was a big thing and even the Federalist had a problem with the Constitution because it was not there. I also learned that they did adopted a bill of rights. I also learned that their were many good reasons that the antifederalists did not except a new constitution but many of them had to do with the fear that something could go wrong or that they did not want to risk taking a chance. Many feared that the President would be like a king with a different name, and others feared that the new constitution was mostly for benefit of the rich. Still others believed that this new plan gave too much power to the Central Government at the expense of the state, they believed that the delegates did not have the power to write a new document of the constitution. Another thing I learned is that Congress was very angry and did not like the new plan because it took away most of their power but they had to pass it on to the people so that the people could decide if it is good and should pass or not. In Conclusion the constitution did pass after some adding such as the Bill of rights and is what now rules us today. I believe that even though the delegates went through a hard time trying to write the new and improved Constitution it was a success and a great job done by the delegates.

April 18

The Treaty of Paris

I believe that the Treaty of Paris was the most important because it closed the revolution and also gave us the ability to be a free country. The British started it by General Cornwallis sending terms of Surrender to General Washington. They dicided that to be fair they should not have it in Britain or in America, so they held it in France. Some trustworthy people were sent from the Britain to debate the rights the Americans (Colonists) had and Benjemin Francklin, John J, and John Adams were sent to defend the Americans. They met and in Paris an wrote what we now call the Treaty of Paris.

March 22

About George Washington’s letter in Valley Forge

George Washington wrote a desperate letter on December 23 1777 in Valley Forge in the middle of the terrible winter. He said that they needed help and supplies because the men will just leave to go home if things continue that bad. There was almost no food and many men were dying. George Washington continued to explain that destruccion would soon come if nothing was done, four more days of such weather kill them all, George Wasington had no exsaduration in what he wrote.

March 19

Out of all the acts that 5c has studied in the time looking at the road to the revolution, which do you consider to be the harshest and why?

I believe that the worst, meanest, harshest act was the Quartering act. I believe that it was the worst because it is half killing people just letting them suffer out of hunger first and then having it hid in their poverty that is actually the fault of the British!  They make them follow rules on how to take care of the soldiers in return for protection they do not want. They have to give the soldiers there own room and feed them 3 meals a day. It put people in a terrible situation that was not called for by the colonist. This act was also terrible because they could not refuse it or even do anything about it because it was soldiers against poor women who’s husbands are gone most of the day and have to take care of the children. They have no more money to add another to the house!               Trinity


March 15

Why was the Declaration of Independence so important to the colonists

I think that the Declaration of Independence was important to the colonist because it ment that they were free and no one could unfairly tell them what to do anymore. It also proved that they were their own powerful country that was too have its own government that would protect them and have athourity over them for good reasons not to just show them that they had all the power, instead to keep them safe and happy with no more troubles then there needs to be.        .