May 2nd, 2013

Here we are! My adorable little game that I created on scratch!
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Yesterday in history we worked on out projects once again and watched a movie about cowboys, which only catching glimpses of, made no sense to me at all. Today in history we started talking about United States imperialism. We got worksheets with poems on them about imperialism in the U.S. and talked about them as a group. We also wrote our own found poem from them about our views on imperialism in the United States.

April 30th, 2013

For the past couple days in history we have been working on out scratch projects. This has been quite a challenge, and that is an understatement. Working with scratch is really hard and confusing, fortunately I had some help figuring it out. So, that was history.

April 25th, 2013

The past couple days we have all been swimming in a shark tank, a theoretical one that is! We put together a presentation of farming tools that were used out on the prairie and then presented them to a couple "sharks" that would buy, or not buy, our tool. Our group had the reaper which was a great invention that cut down grain and also bundled it. It saved so much time and labor, being a great buy. The reaper was bought by the "sharks" as well as the thresher, which was a good at saving time and labor sorting the grain. The barbed wire wasn't bought, but I wasn't surprised. It was really dangerous, especially if it rusted and one of your cows got cut on it. It could get tetanus  and then if you kill it you will just give it to your family, which would be horrible! The other invention that wasn't bought was the steel plow, it was just an improvement of the plow and still needed laborers to work it, so it wasn't really a good investment. So, that was history!

April 23rd, 2013

Yesterday's history class we 16% project, which was a lot of fun. It was really interesting to learn all about giant sea predators. Today history was really fun too, which was because it was interactive. We got to go around to all these stations about the soddies that the homesteaders lived in. We smelled some sod, figured out the layout of a sod house with the real dimensions and learned how hard it was to pose for a picture for a minute straight. It must've been a really hard life living in a soddie. The space is so small and it was really dark inside too without windows. I don't think that I would've been able to live in one for too long. The space was too small and cramped for me. I would enjoy being able to ride my horse for miles straight, but that would only keep me sane for so long. I think that I would probably leave the soddie and move back into the city if I were living there. Overall today's class was really cool and interesting. So, that was history!

April 9th, 2013

We are going to try something a little different today in this post, it is going to be a diary entry by William Baker III, a merchant in the 1830's. So here goes!


April 9th, 1834

Business is booming! Trade has gone up by a huge percent and the cost has gone way down to transport our goods from place to place. Each trip we get more profit and it's slowly adding up. Lucy has been thinking of buying some new fine china for the house, which is something we've never had before. I've noticed that she's been buying more clothes than usual and spending money of more frivolous things that she never would've bought before the canal. Fortunately we can afford all these luxuries now that the canal has been up and running. I'm glad that they decided to build this canal, trade is better, business is better, everything is just better overall. Yes, with the population increase of the cities by the canal there is some pollution, but that can be all cleaned up. All I care about is my business and how much profit I can get in. The canal has been a lifesaver to our family, my trade company was going out of business but now it is thriving!

William Baker III

April 4th, 2013

Well, I'll give this post a go but don't expect too much. Basically everyone missed Wednesday's class because of the accuplacer test that we all had to take so I can't report on anything there. I myself missed today's class to get my braces off. So, I don't really know what we did exactly but I know that it was all about the war of 1812. I watched the sophia.org videos and such things on it, but I wasn't able to do the symbol, slogan, poem activity that everyone in class did. So, that was history!

April 2nd, 2013

It's reflection time! Today in class we had a debate... more of a one person explain and go around in a circle, sort of like circle time beck in elementary school... and this was about what caused the War of 1812. We were each in a group supporting a cause, mine was impressment, and then read some worksheets about it and made a "speech". It was a pretty interesting class information-wise but other than that it just bee-bopped along, not really getting into a debate like I was expecting. My opinion of what started the war didn't change at all, maybe it would've it we had been able to debate more and bring out more points on the subject. So, that was history!