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U.S. Intervention in Haiti class work, which we did today (5/23/13).

#1 How have Haitians responded to the presence of U.S. Marines in their country?

The Haitians greatly despised the United States for their ongoing presence in their country. Charlemagne Peralte sent letters in 1915 criticizing the presence of the U.S. Marines in Haiti and started people in a resistance movement. He said that "Foe four years the [American] Occupation has been insulting us constantly. Each morning it brings us a new offense. The people are poor and the Occupation still oppresses us with taxes. It spreads fires and forbids us to rebuild wooden houses under the pretext of keeping the city beautiful." He is speaking for all the Haitians and encouraging them to rise up against America. The Americans are repressing them and all their actions, not letting them do anything that they want to do. The Haitians hate this and really don't like it. America won't even let then rebuild houses to keep their country pretty, which isn't fair to the Haitians. Building houses won't do anything, it's not like they are asking permission to run a rebellion. And because America won't let the Haitians do anything like that, they are going to rebel and rise up because they hate America for restricting them so much and want their freedom. At the end of Peralte's letter he says, "Die for your country. Long live Independence! Long live the Union! Long live the just war! Down with the Americans!" Which to me encompasses the whole feeling that the Haitians had toward the Americans. They were angry, downtrodden, and wanting of freedom. To get that they had to rebel and rise up, which is what Peralte is influencing. Overall the Haitians really hated the Americans for being in their country and repressing them in every way.

May 24th, 2013

Today we worked on our 16% plan projects and I got a lot done! Yay! I finished two of the three parts of my quest. I had to make my own predator, which was a lot of fun and really enjoyable. I battled with GoogleDocs drawing to create my creature and it ended up pretty good I have to say. Also, needing to relate measurements of ancient predators to something today, I learned quite a bit. I know that a Twizzler is eight inches long and a fun-sized Milky Way bar is two inches. While it may not be on Jeopardy, if I have to explain how tall something is, let's take a 50 story building for example, I can explain. A 50 story building is 400 feet tall, but if you say that you can't really imagine how tall it is, but when you say is it 600 Twizzlers tall you can start to imagine how tall  it is, and it is really tall! So, that was history!

May 22nd, 2013

Today as well as yesterday we worked on multiple worksheets about the Monroe Doctrine and Roosevelt Corollary. We went through it chopped up into bite sized pieces and found the key words, summarized it, and then put it in out own words. That took up pretty much the entire class and when we were finished, we put all our "in our own words" segments to create our own. It was actually pretty fun. So, that was history!

May 20th, 2013

Today in class we spent talking about Teddy Roosevelt and the Panama canal. We read part of one of his speeches and filled out this worksheet on it. It was pretty interesting how he had to convince every one that building the canal was a good thing. It was also funny to me how he said that he was the one who started  it, which it was actually the French and the U.S. bought the rights for building it from them... Hmm... Well. It was a pretty interesting class and I liked how the worksheet broke down the speech so we could really think about it and the meaning. So, that was history!

Let's Break some Barriers!

Our Breaking Barriers project is finally finished! You can watch it right here too! Yay! Allie, Hannah, and I hope you enjoy learning about Lech Walesa!

May 13th, 2013

Well, today's history class really wasn't that exciting. We were all supposed to be working on our 16% project, but since everyone didn't have their stuff the class really didn't do much. So that is what my blog is going to be, not much. So, that was history!


But here's a whale!!!


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May 9th, 2013

For the past couple days in history we have been learning about the U.S. relations with the Native Americans and also a few of their famous leaders. We learned about Red Cloud and Sitting Bull, which was really interesting to see how they reacted to the horrible treatment that the U.S. gave them. So, that was history!

May 6th, 2013

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!

May 2nd, 2013

Here we are! My adorable little game that I created on scratch!
 CLICK THIS IF YOU WANT TO SEE IT!

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!

Adventureous Expedition! (March 29th, 20130

Here's the like to my diary being a part of the Corps of Discovery. Adventure!
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Bntx4diO0cEYca536j35gzQNZyqqTHx8u5SPifLk0f4/edit?usp=sharing

This is what we did in class today, so that was history!

My Book!

Finally! Look what we have here... A finished book!!
 

March 27th, 2013

Yesterday we finished discussing the Black Panther's plan in a very heated argument. And that was all we really did. Today we worked on our story of the Civil Rights Movement project in class. It was highly frustrating because I couldn't connect to the internet with my laptop, but hopefully it will work better tomorrow! And that was a very short and sweet retelling of out history class the past couple days!

March 25th, 2013

Lets see here... History class on Monday the 25th. We talked about the Black Panthers and their Ten Point Program and filled out a worksheet. To be exact, we did the worksheet and then discussed what we wrote about. And I already covered what we did before the weekend, so I guess that was history!