October 30th, 2012

Well, today was another uneventful day in history class. We were given the opprotunity to work on our integrated project. Allie and I were the only two people who were in our group of five in that class, so we couldn't really do much on our project in the first place. But, also we videotaped our project and only have to smush all the clips together to finish it, which we couldn't do in class. So, basically all we did was brainstorm titles for our video and figure out all the credits and everything. Pretty exciting class, huh?

October 26th, 2012

Well, the past two days of history have been pretty uneventful, unlike the American Revolution. Yesterday we were quizzed on the preamble of the Declaration of Independence, and today we had our test on the revolution. Other than those two things we really didn't do too much. After taking the quiz yesterday Mr. Boyle quickly went over the events that were the end of the revolution. I can't say much other than tat because of our limited classes.

October 24th, 2012

Today was pretty different than that of our normal history classes. That's because we looked at art for the whole entire class period. We just didn't look at it willy-nilly either. Mr. Boyle made this awesome voice thread that narrated all the pictures that he showed us. I have to say that Mr. Johm Copley was probably the artist who produced the nicest artwork, but to each his own. It was pretty interesting to learn about how the painting weren't historically accurate, because when you see a paining of a major event in history you would think it would be right. But they aren't all the time. Also it was cool how there were losts of hidden meanings in the pictures themselves. In the portrait of Paul Revere there was an underlying hint of rebellion since he was wearing a linen shirt, since the linen was inported and not really allowed. I found it to be a pretty interesting class once you started to actually think about the paintings, and not just see them for what they are.

Timeline!

Yay! We have a new and improved timeline for the American Revolution right here... Enjoy!

October 19th, 2012

So, today in history we walked in to find a pretty uneventful class. Basically the only thing that we did was take some notes and talk about the battles of Trenton and Princeton. Before all that fun stuff we had a little rant session about the sub that we had yesterday who was pretty crazy. With the sub we wrote a mini essay on the document that Thomas Paine wrote saying, "This are the times that try men's souls." Today we basically sat in class and listened to Mr.Boyle talk about battles and wars, really just the revolution. We watched a pretty cool animated battle and listened to Mr. Boyle's commentary. That was all we really did, a pretty dull history class.

October 17th, 2012

Today in history we had a pretty deep discussion about trust. And you are probably thinking, "What does trust have to do with history?" Well, let me tell you but posing this question to you... Can democracy exist without trust? This was what we pondered during our class after we got in groups and shared our notes on the Declaration of Independence. But, back to the issue of trust. Its true that democracy can't exist without trust. You have to be able to trust the representative and the president to do the right things as well as them trusting you to make the right choice to represent them. If you don't have at least a little bit of trust in the representatives then people won't vote for anyone when election time comes and democracy won't exist. Trust is like the base of democracy, without it, it will crumble.

October 15th, 2012

On Friday, like a pretty ususal history class we were handed papers as soon as we walked through the door. This time, it was on one of three documents, Common Sense, The Olive Branch Petition, and Plain Truth. We got together with our groups and read the doucument, decided what it was saying and what the position of the person who wrote it was, Loyalist or not. My group had the Olive Branch Petition, which was written by Loylalists that were saying with all the problems between the colonies and Britain. They wanted to stay aligned with Britian but if Britain attempt to fix the relations, then they would go to war. After doing this, we were divied up in out groups and sat with people with the other two documents. Each of us took a turn explaining our document. Today, we presented our Revolutionary Replicas that were do today. It was a pretty simple class but it was intersting to hear about all the different people who were involoved with the Revolution and how they were a part of it.

Who is Lydia Darragh?

To find out listen to my voicethread right here!

October 10th, 2012

Today was a really interesting and informative class. We walked into the class unnkowing of what adventures though history we would be doing today. It turns out that we got to learn a ton about the battle of Lexington and Concord and the Battle of Bunker Hill. Instead of just looking at a map and reading the progress of the colonists and British Regulars, we got to watch the battle with this nifty animated battle map. The animation really pulled you into the battle and was able to really make understand the movement and fighting instead of guessing what happened on a plain old, oring map. After we took some notes and went through both battles, we got to make this search movie on google. We got to choose seven important details of the battle of Lexington and Concord. Using thouse seven details we put them into this little google search movie creater-gizmo that created our little video. And here it is for you to enjoy! Voila!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OyhKD0sYBfI&feature=g-upl

Civic Values Voicethread

Here is my voicethread on the final two civic values. Enjoy!

October 5th, 2012

Yesterday in class we did an edcafe on the events leaading up to the American Revolution, and it didn't go so well. So today, to really understand the events that we discussed yesterday Mr.Boyle created this snappy flow chart type presentation with the British side of the event and colonist side of the event. Taking notes on the events, discussing, and really getting to understand the event. As we were completing our notes we got Paul Revere's Ride, the poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. After this was read aloud in class we got a worksheet to "rewrite" the poem with real facts, as Paul Revere was not the only man who rode that night contrary to popular belief. So, my partner and I wrote our short little poem about the three riders, Revere, Dawes, and Prescott. It was really fun but difficult at the same time as every two lines had to rhyme. Today's class really helped out after the confusion after the edcafe yesterday and was really fun having to "rewrite" the poem by Longfellow.

October 3rd, 2012

Yesterday I forgot that we had a post due, so I am now doing my post on what happened yesterday. A while ago, after we took our Constitution test, we recieved a  packet about the upcoming edcafe. I read over it but it all was a little confusing until we actually worked on it yesterday. The packets that we got had our groups already assigned and our topic. In my case I got the Stamp Acts, which were when Britain decided to start taxing the colonies to pay off war and defense debts. In class we worked in the computer lab creating a powerpoint on google docs. We all worked on the same powerpoint at the same time, which made it very frustrating since google was really slow and didn't always save the information but we managed to pull it together. Our worksheets had information about the event which we divided up amoung us and we each did three slides. My slides were about the reaction of the colonists to the acts, what happened as a result of their rebellion and boycott, and finally the repeal of the act. I really liked working on the comupters and making a powerpoint eventhough it did get a little annoying after awhile!