The past couple days in history have been pretty interesting. On Friday we had a fishbowl debate. What might that be you ask? Well, I will tell you. We each got a side to represent, our side being Christian missionaries, and then one representative went to sit in a square of four desks and debate the topic given. The topic we had was about the Trail of Tears and pushing the Cherokee Indians out west. To finish up, we were told by Mr. Boyle to write a poem about the Cherokee's Burden. And so here it is!
The Cherokee's Burden
The Cherokee's burden,
Carried on their backs,
The debate among white men,
Having no say.
Pushed out of their homes,
With no possession,
Pushed into a foreign land,
Nothing to start anew.
White men have all the say,
Nothing to the Cherokee,
President Jackson says,
They will be be happy.
Misunderstood,
Taken advantage of,
Harshly treated,
This is the Cherokee's burden.
And today in history we worked on out 16% project, in which I had a fun time trying to draw my sea predator online. So, that was history!
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