12/17

today we examined the trail of tears, why this happened, and why its significant, because besides form a terrible inhuman act, it was also incredibly unconstitutional, and Jackson did it anyway, which says a lot about how our system of checks and balances deals with corruption, or to put it better, how it doesn't.

12/16

today we took more notes. we looked at that painting of the election of then, and compaired it to how elections go now. very, VERY different. i like the other way betteer.

...12/15?

i just realized that today was the 15th when i wrote the title,i thought it was the 14th all day. anyway, we took more ntes today, thistime compairing attack ad campains from now to the 1800s it was pretty interesting. it turns out, politicians have always been cut throat .

14/12

today we took notes again. thats really all i can remember, which makes me think it was sometime in the morning (not saying i was sleeping, just not as awake and alert)

12/13

today, after you broke up a fight, we studied some political cartoons of the time, and took some notes. blah.

12/10

on friday we took notes and did some more work on the documents. not gunna lie to you, i know its not exactly easy to make court cases fun, but i liked this class better at the begening of the year when we did group work and projects and fun stuff. i actually learned more. also, i need to remember to put tags in my posts. someday soon im going to need to just go through and just tag them all. Also, in an unrelated subject, i just figured out where to view all of the unapproved comments, and to my  fear i realized that you actually do read my blog. haha

9/8

yesterday, we worked on two documents about banks, and learned about federal vs commercially owned banks. its interesting because there are no government baks any more that we see.

9/7

i hope your happy, i just remembered to blog while i was half a sleep and actually got out of bed to do it. we talked abouttye undeground railroad and slaves and such today, and someof the more sucessful slave revults and the more famous slave escourts and they went north on the railroad. the slave song was pretty cool.SLEEEEEPPPP

well, there hasnt been much blogging to do, because, because thirsday you were absent, friday i was sick, then weekend, thent oday. we broke up into groups , and took some notes. uhg, im still sick

12/1

well normally if a week had passed with no posts, i would be freaking out right now, however, sence my last post i have only missed one blog post (monday) so im not too worried today, we did math, so i didnt do much as i hate and suck at math. stupid textite problem... yay its december

11/22

yesterday (monday) we went to the computer lab to work on our project and im glad to say it really came together, we worked on it last night too, and were almost done! in other news, today is the last day of classes till vacation and im wicked exciteed

11/19

ive got a problem. my group decided while we were in the computer lab on Friday that we couldn't do a video cause our schedule's clashed too much. thus we decided to do what everyone else was doing, the voice thread. however, we were now very behind everyone else because they had been working on it for a week, and we were just starting. and now none of them are online and i have to turn in our pictures and have  our script tomorrow. UHHGGGG

11/18

yesterday we dropped, and today, we had a quest. i dont think i did very well on it, not for lack of studing, but i totally blanked out on what the hartford convention and jays treaty were. uhg

11/16

hardly worth blogging today, because the assembly screwed up our schedule, but instead of taking the test (wait, no, i mean quest) we only had about 10 to 20 minutes of class time, so we went to the computer lab and we worked on our projects. we made some progress with our group and i feel confident about it. the quest will be on thirs (we drop tomorrow)
-Drew

11/15

well first of all, i now have to include tags, which wont be hard, if i can remember. second, today we took notes on the war of 1812 and the time period around that area. we have a quest tomorrow, which wont be fun, but im about to start studdieing so ill be ready

11/12

its really hard to blog because we are no longger doing anyclass activities or anything describable. we atre just taking notes. me joe connor ans sammi are doiong our video project tomarrow hopefully, if not well do it next weekend, but i dont want to do it that close to the deadline (tuesday) quest next week i think...

11/8

today, and the past few days, weve only taken notes and read hand outs. ive forgoten to blog a lot, but there is little to talk about, because we have done no class activities or anything exciting, but we do have a nice project... A VIDEO PROJECT!! yayy! doing it this weekend

11/2

dont be mad! i forgot to post for a week! i was doing really good with keeping up with the blog too. sorry. im not used to having daily homework that isnt colected in class. ill do better for now on

10/26

uhg im writing that paper for you, so bear with me if this post is a ittle short. the paper is due @ midnight, so i have 2 hours and 54 minutes... im not really worried, im already a good chunck into it, and im confident i will have it done by 10, but still, deadlines like this are new to me, and the ever tempting urge to to homework in the morning, or on the bus or in a study tomorrow has disappeared, and i will have adapt.

10/25

today we just went over who our people were, and what they did, also, we have to strt our papers for  nice net (uhhhgggg) i have soooo much long term homework in all my clases right now. :(

yesterday

on friday, we did a cool virtual interactive game where you make important decisions from a court. it was wicked fun and i really hope he lets us do it again. anyway, i know i have a bunch of homework over the weekend, with both the voicethread/story board, but also that paper thing for nicenet. :(  uhg

10/21

Today, much to my excitement, and thankfulness, the kind and merciful Mr. Boyle gave us the weekend to do our voice threads and story board (thank you thank you thank you thank you)and we took some notes. all this time we were with our budyy for that A/B work sheet from last night, and we spent some time going over that. and the four groups (people, congress, state, electoral) and their respective benefits and downfalls. we also learned about the short answer questions we would have to answer on the quest (quiz-test, i like to call them tuizes)so today was pretty important for history.

10/20

today we did some partner work, filling in our charts from last night, and we also discuses the project (due friday) i need to get working on that :(oh well

10/19

today, we had french students in our class, which was interesting, and we reveived what we hasd learned in the past two day. i really neeed to start my history project so... maybe i'll do that now

friday

yesterday, we got into our groups from the day before, and we got more documents to look at. im not a huge fan of just studieing documents, and im unsure how much i actually got out of it, but i understand it can be very necessary.

10/14

today we split up into 3 groups (a,b,c) and looked at historical documents at around the time of the constitution. in my group the actually document was just a conversation between a group of people, (it may have been that way for every group, i dont know) so we each picked a person and read as that person. Also, i'm curious if you actually ever read our blogs, so if you read this, can you just leave a comment (one words fine), thanks. -drew

The Preamble

For homework tonight, i have to memorize the 0preamble, which is the first section of the constitution. Luckily, (thank you 5th grade and school house rock) i already know most of it. "we the people, in order to form a morte purfect nation, establish justice and ensure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general wellfair, ...(cant remember)... do-ordained and establish this consitution of america" almost...

Deceifering and discussing the historical documents

Over the weekend we had to read and translate (old English-modern English)and write a paragraph about them, then using the power of google docs, we combined them and put them all on one paper. then yesterday and today we had to present them. it was all pretty fun, minus reading the old english,  which might have well been chinese.

Test

we had the test today, and i think i did pretty good, i had to rush the final paragraph of my essay, because time ran out and i didnt want to stay after school just to finish 3 minutes of work. i also forgot some of the declaration, but the first part, and some of the second part i am very confident in. _drew

10/4 (i've decided that dated titles are less confusing and more orginized)

today, we go another packet that we needed to fill in the questions after we read it ...i'm not worried, i did most it in class. also, we discussed more important battles, as well as, for the first time, what happened after we declared independence, and how it still wasn't over, because we had to come to terms with what should happen next. -Drew

today (9/30)

well today, there was more talking than actual work, but it was a productive class none the less. i finally remembered to ask him about nicenet, and i got my user-name, and i will try it momentarily. thats all -drew

History Time-Line

Here's the link, let me try to embed.

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It's been a while

I haven't posted for a while, but with reason because we haven't had class in 6 days. Any way, while i prepare my time-line, I figured I should make a post. Also, i have to comment on my George Washington Friend's blog (John Irving). uhg

A Meeting

We didn't really have class today because Boyle had a meeting :(  we had to go to a study and it was terrorable because we weren't allowed to talk.

debates+nice net

well, we kind of debated today, and Cori, who was in my group got a little too into it, and pretty agravated, which i think Boyle was trying to avoid, but i also think the debate went well. on another subject, i cant remember my nice net password, and don't really know what to do....

common sense

despite the title, common sense required more than little thought and was full of large and unnecessary vocabulary.Aside from reading , we also got new groups and looked at another power point today. i dont mind note taking, but i always prefer the hands on  tactic of learning. thats all, drew

today in class

Today in class, we used Google Earth to look at Lexington and concord. while i dislike much of the use of technology in this class, I'm a sucker for Google Earth, and found that class very interesting. plus, i realized much of what i knew about that battle was a twisted American version of the truth, which is always interesting to find out. P.S. please no more poetry, i loath it.

Poem

A very long time ago
At around 10:30 or so,
Revere and Dawes waited to see
where the British might be

When the lanterns were lit,
the riders could no longer sit
As they ran they gave a great shout
"the regulars are out!"

Latter on, to lexington they got
waiting for them was Prescott
As they moved onward,
they were stopped by a British guard

Prescott and Dawes got away,
but Paul was there to stay
but then Dawes fell of his horse
which made thing even worse

Alone and afraid only Prescott lasted
but he reached the patriots and their guns blasted
and that is how the midnight ride really occored
what most know is just what's rumored

Embeded Speach

... working on it

50 Words...count 'em

When the British decided to keep the tax on tea after they repealed all the other taxes, the colonists pushed it farther than ever before, and I think this is where war became inevitable. While before, the Americans could have made compromises with Brittan before, it was now too late.     ~~~That's 50 word.

Yesterday and today

So yesterday we presented our giant cutout guys and it was pretty cool. unfortunately, while i had my guy, i didn't have my 12 facts, so i was the only person who didn't present, which kinda stunk, so i had them today, but i didn't get to present, cause we were listening to the voice notes from the group project we did awhile ago.  Anyway, i have to summarize each event, so i think ill get started:

The Royal Proclamation
Made in 1763, it was a law that prohibited the settlement of colonists in the area beyond the Appalachian Mountains. The colonists really didn't like this,so many crossed the mountains themselves,disregarding the law.

The Stamp Act
The British Parliament placed a tax on British America saying that all printed materials must be produced on stamp paper. The colonists were not very mad about the tax, seeing as taxes had always been heavy, what bothered them was that  they didn't get representation in parliament. So they decided they wouldn't pay the taxes.

 Boston Massacre
In Boston, 60 colonists threw snowballs at a british guard. In return, the british guard disregarded orders, firing on the colonists, calling in backup. In the end, 11 were dead, and many wounded.

Boston Tea Party
On December 6th, 1773 a group of colonists, pretending to be Indians, boarded a ship of British tea, and destroyed the tea by throwing it all into Boston Harbor. They did this to protest the high taxes on tea. Also in protest, they drank smuggled dutch tea and grew their own.

 The Intolerable Acts
These were a set of laws that were passed in 1774 by the british parliament. These laws targeted and attacked the rebellious acts such as the Boston tea party, and to stop groups such as the sons of liberty. It required that attacks like the tea party be paid for, and unauthorized groups be disbanded.

 The First Continental Congress
The First Continental Congress was a meeting of delegates from the colonies. While it had no technical power in parliament (as parliament constantly reminded them), however, they still debated and decided how things should be with the relation between England and North America. Many in the The First Continental Congress went on to be key figures in the revolution.

If you've actually read this far, you've probably noticed that I'm missing like two blog posts. i could say that i don't always have internet access, but that would be a lie. i could say i don't always have much time at home for homework, but that would also be a lie. the real answer is that i forgot. i will try to avoid this in the future because i think it will show in my grade.

                                                                                   ~Drew

Packets and Blogs

Today in history, we did a packet in our group, and the fact that we will have to do blog posts every day we have class. I loath the idea of homework every night and think there are better ways of getting feed back from your class. Like... actually talking to them. Anyway, two projects to do over the weekend, which wont be fun, but on the bright side, tomorrows Friday. :)




  I meant to publish this last night, but left it open on the new post tab instead. so here it is now...

Goals and Such

By now, in my sophomore year, I've reached the point where the goal making is an expected and well practiced part of new classes and teachers. However, despite the repetitiveness of it all, goal can be a helpful and powerful tool that will motivate me all year long, and if i don't reach them, push me harder next year. I'm not really sure weather these goals are supposed to be for this class, or for the year in general, so I'll try to stick to basics that can apply to both.

(1)Learn A LOT. Obviously, that why I'm here, and thus, i will always try to push my self to memorize, understand, and retain as much useful information as possible. This has always been a big problem, not because of lack of motivation or interest, but because i have a terrible memory.This year I intend to combat that more than in years past.

(2)Keep things STRESS FREE. I get very easily stressed out, which can really make school and life in general really, really bad. This makes me less likely to do work, which makes me even more stressed, and i  spiral down into anger and missed work. This year I want to never give my self the chance to start this deadly circle, by doing work when i get home, as apposed to late at night the night before it's due (like I'm doing right now...). This will have a positive effect on grade, social life, and even health, avoiding the sleep deprivation.

(3)My third and final goal is TO HAVE FUN. The words "Fun" and "history" are rarely used in the same sentence by a teenager, but last year Mr. Richard proved it was more than possible. This year, the majority of my teachers appear to be willing to let us enjoy the year as long as the work gets done, which means as long as I work hard, i can have the grades I want (and my parents want) and still have friends by the end of the year.