Do you advise them often?” Jonas was a little frightened at the thought that one day he would be the one to advise the ruling body.
But the Giver said no. “Rarely. Only when they are faced with something that they have not experienced before. Then they call upon me to use the memories to advise them.” (103)
We study the past and its many memories in order to help make the right decisions for the future. What is one time period or event in American History that you think offers us a possible lesson for the future? In one paragraph:
- describe a time period or event in American History that you think could offer us lessons for the future,
- include details to describe the time period or event, and
- explain what you think we could learn for the future based on the history.
“A light that you can control to be on or off whenever you want?” An average being would say in the early 1870s. But in 1879, Thomas Alva Edison invented what is globally known as the light bulb. This single invention was potentially the most effective invention to today, as today you cannot step a couple feet outside without seeing the light bulb. Some of us today wonder if one day we could have time travel; maybe teleportation. We cannot, however achieve these, if all we do is wonder. Edison made the lightbulb, not by wishing, however trying.
ReplyDeleteURL: http://americanhistory.si.edu/lighting/19thcent/invent19.htm
Junho this is a very good topic i have two suggestions for you.
Delete1. You need to talk about how he came upon the idea of the light bulb and what did he use? to make it.
2. You should explain this quote in your words and say what it means. It took me awhile to figure out what this mean't.
But very good topic.
1. Junho you could make your character an apprentice of Thomas Alva Edison, and explain how he learns from Edison.
Delete2.You should consider using an allusion.
You should use a 3rd person narrative. Maybe use a character that was a family member or someone helping him invent the light bub, and be reflecting on it.
DeleteWhat would you do if something had just turned your world upside down in the blink of an eye and you were powerless to do anything about it? Well on August 6th, 1945 many Japanese people forever remember it as the day Hiroshima was hit by little boy a nuclear bomb. About 80,000 people died from bomb blast and 60,000 later from bomb sickness a disease that mysteriously appeared after the bomb was dropped. Also, in the aftermath many churches were turned to rubble and cemeteries were uprooted.The plane that dropped this awful horrendous bomb was the Enola-Gay B-29 bomber. When nuclear weaponry was being made it was thought to be used for military and peaceful uses but after the news of devastation caused by the bomb many scientists including Albert Einstein regretted the decision of ever creating such a cruel bomb. In total about 185,000 people died altogether. In conclusion, Japanese adults and grandparents in Japan and all over the world use that tragic event as a way to teach their children the importance of peace and how to keep the peace for however long as you can.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.atomicarchive.com/History/twocities/hiroshima/page10.shtml
1.You could talk about the 2nd bomb and Nagasaki
Delete2.You could talk about the controversy of weapons of mass destruction or war crimes in general
Hi Muhib, you have a really good topic. One thing you could do in your story is use 3rd person narration, to get both Japanese and American perspectives on the bombing. Also, you could include flashbacks of events in your main character's life. When the bomb hits, you could make a flashback that was triggered from the sound of the bomb.
DeleteMuhib your character could be some one that knew Albert Einstein, and saw him break down because he didn't like being known for that.
DeleteOr your character could be a Japanese person who lost family members.
On July 16, 1969, the first manned mission to the moon had taken place. The U.S.S Hornet launched from Cape Kennedy at 9:32 A.M. Neil Armstrong, Edwin Aldrin, and Micheal Collins all participated in the mission. They were on the moon for 21 hours before returning back. The preparation for this mission brought us through Apollo one, seven, eight, nine, and ten. These five missions taught us that the human is already capable of a lot, some of which we’re not taking advantage of. There is a lot more intelligence then we are showing, the world so far has not accomplished as much as we could, even though we are capable of it.
ReplyDeleteYour narrator should be the moon, so we can experience the perspective of the moon during these events.
DeleteIn your setting you should describe the moon craters and seeing planets in the far off distance.
you should make your story about the trip from earth to the moon in third person so you can give multiple perspectives of different people. You should also describe the journey to the moon and compare the difference of the view if earth and space.
DeleteYour story could be set in the town where one of the astronauts lived to see what kinds of things people close to the astronaut felt/did about the trip to the moon. You might want to consider doing a short story and only including experiences on Apollo 11 with flashbacks to the other missions/previous training.
DeleteIn the 1950’s a pressing issue started to surface. Segregation was attracting more people’s attention than ever. The people that were against it were speaking up and doing physical acts to show their opinion. The Montgomery bus boycott was a very well-known act committed by Rosa Parks. She broke the law because she refused to give her seat up to a white man to stand up for racial equality. More and more people joined in the fight against segregation after this act . Soon things like the “Brown vs. Board of education” happened. That was when many people decided blacks and whites shouldn’t be separated into different schools. The 1950’s was a huge turning point for equal rights.
ReplyDeleteHey Carleigh I really like your topic becuase I have the same one! Your paragraph was really good. I think for you charcater it should be a little girl about 10 or 11 and she should basically just starting to understand why she doesnt have certain rights. I also think that your Conflict with the character is that she doesnt understand why she cant use certan things and be certain places and basically she is trying to find her place and what is going on in her tie period. I hope you take my suggestions and consider them.
DeleteCarleigh, what a great topic! I have so many ideas for you but I'll only give you two.
Delete1. I think your character should be a white girl who wants to be friends with a black girl but doesn't understand why they can't be friends.
2. Maybe you could do flashback to when she was a kid and now she's older and understands it better.
1. Your character could be someone who knew Martin Luther King.
Delete2. They could have gone on marches with him for equal rights.
http://www.citrus.k12.fl.us/staffdev/social%20studies/pdf/slang%20of%20the%201950s.pdf
ReplyDeletehttp://classroom.synonym.com/entertainment-did-teenagers-1950s-23109.html
http://www.shmoop.com/1950s/culture.html
http://www.census.gov/history/www/through_the_decades/fast_facts/1950_fast_facts.html
What do you think happened in the 1950’s? The 1950’s had a really robust culture. It had tons of music, drive-in movies and so much more. Teenagers would go to Ice Cream Parlors for entertainment also drive-in movies. Fathers would work while mothers would stay home and do motherly things. The economy flourished. People sang, wrote songs and they were usually about parties and relationships. People would only eat out at restaurants for social needs. However one major thing is the invention of TV. In the 1950’s TV was in 90% of homes in America. Even greater is that the first colored TV was created on June 25 1950.
So far so good Miles!!! I think you should also add some bad things about the 1950s such as discrimination and, how will your fiction unfold? Are going to be a normal day to day boy living the life? You should add some problems that your character will face in the 1950s. You should also add a setting to make your fiction come to life.
DeleteGreat job, I think you should make your story a chapter of a novel because, it takes place in a whole time period in the 50's. For you narrations I think you should put them in third person because this isn't something that happened to your character directly.
DeleteI think that your story should be in the third person narration, so you can get the perspectives of different people. You should also make the plot of a rich family and compare it to the "poor" to get the reader to know your time period.
DeleteMy history topic is the Holocaust. This history topic can provide us lessons for the future by, NOT TREATING PEOPLE BADLY NO MATTER WHAT RELIGION OR RACE THEY ARE. How is that a lesson that could help us in the future? This lesson is because during the Holocaust, Adolf Hitler, treated Jews terribly even if they were kids or old people or adults. He did that by torturing them in Concentration Camps, so we should always respect everyone because they are just the same as us. Another lesson is, try not to be a person that their dream is to conquer the whole entire world by torturing everyone.
ReplyDeleteA detail to describe this time period is, the nazi’s used a lot of torturing items on the Jewish people. Like whips, chains, etc. When they hit them, the Jews were really scared because the Nazi’s were conquering country after country.
Another detail is that when the Jews were killed, they were put on a gigantic piece of plywood.
A thing that we could learn from this is when you get angry at someone and hurt them physically and emotionally, you should always go back to them later in the day and apologize.
URL:http://history1900s.about.com/od/holocaust/a/holocaustfacts.htm
This is a really good time period in history! It is very interesting how Hitler took out his anger on the Jews and it offers lessons on being kind to others. Some suggestions I have are:
Delete-You should write in first person, showing the emotion of being in a concentration camp and going through the harsh conditions first hand.
-Flashback. Maybe this story could be your characters flashback, a dream/nightmare or maybe even your character is telling the story is his grandchildren.
I think you should narrate your story in first person so you can explain to the reader how it feels to be in a concentration camp. Also I think your story would be best as a novel.
DeleteI have the same topic. It is a very good time there are lots of details and events that happen during WW2 and the Holocaust. You should talk about Hitler can the camps
DeleteWomen’s rights is a huge topic. Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott helped make women have rights. Stanton and Mott are the developers of the seneca falls convention.Stanton wrote the declaration of settlements. She also read it out loud to the people at the seneca falls convention. These are all things that were big events in Women’s Rights. Stanton and Mott were women who were standing up for what they believe in, For them to be equal with men. Now women have some rights like, women can vote, work, and get paid as much as men in some jobs. Women have a lot more rights than what they used to. But women still don’t have all the same rights as men. We have never had a women as our president. Some women still don’t get paid as much as the men. Maybe we should change that. Would it make the world better and smarter? We may never know, but hopefully one day we will find out .
ReplyDeleteThis is a really good topic, kendal! There are a lot of possiblities for this topic. Maybe your main character could be one of these important women, or someone who knew them well. You could also have a message that is not being sent in just the end of the story, but little hints of it throughout the entire story.
DeleteAmazing paragraph, Kendal! I would suggest first person. Someone that believes in women's rights and protests and things... Maybe even as a male who believes that women should have the same rights and males. That would be super cool! I can also see it taking place right at the end of this time, so that you can talk about the ending of this time and either winning or losing. It would add a lot of detail.
DeleteAmazing paragraph, Kendal! I would suggest first person. Someone that believes in women's rights and protests and things... Maybe even as a male who believes that women should have the same rights and males. That would be super cool! I can also see it taking place right at the end of this time, so that you can talk about the ending of this time and either winning or losing. It would add a lot of detail.
DeleteGreat paragraph Kendal! I would suggest doing flashbacks in your story to when she was apart of the Seneca Falls Convention. Also doing a short story and not a chapter of a novel. Hope you take my suggestions into consideration! :)
DeleteWe can learn lessons from many time periods in history, one of these times is world war II. A lesson we can learn from world war II is to not be too harsh on our enemies. Many people believe that world war I was a direct cause of world war II. This is because after the treaty of versailles was signed to end world war I, Germany was a barren country with a gravely bad economy. Adolf Hitler, being a soldier who fought in world war I, hated the U.S. and every other country who had fought against Germany. Since Germany was in such bad condition, it was easy for Hitler to swoop in and give the people someone to blame; the U.S. and it’s allies, as well as the jewish people. If the treaty of versailles had not been so harsh on the Germans then Adolf Hitler might not have been elected and 20 million soviets, 300,000 Americans, and 6 million polish (⅙ of the Polish population) might not have lost their lives.
ReplyDeleteRickey nice job, but I think you can: 1 Make your message a little clearer and 2 give a little more detail on germany after world war 1.
DeleteGood facts about the treaty of Versailles maybe if we were not harsh Hitler would not come to power but maybe Germany might think we were weak for not letting them go easily maybe have your story about you being a government official who helped create the treaty of Versailles. Good job Riggy
DeleteNice job, Ricky! I would recommend having a character that is close to someone that was put into a concentration camp... and your character would either have escaped or not gone at all. That would add a lot of space for your feelings and details. First person would be great! A TON OF DETAIL can be added into this story.
DeleteA time period that can teach us a lesson is the 1920’s. The 1920’s can teach us equality. In the 1920’s women could finally vote after 72 years of fighting for women's rights. It was not easy though, there was protests, they wrote petitions and marched for women’s rights. Not everyone was equal in this time period. Farmers, African Americans and immigrants had a tough time. They had a hard time finding jobs and farmers weren’t needed as much, women didn’t get all the rights they wanted; authoritarians measured women’s clothing and women had to wear stockings or they would be arrested. I believe that we can learn about equality for everyone from the 1920’s.
ReplyDeleteKeely, your paragraph was well thought out and gave helpful facts about the 1920's but, I just want to recommend maybe giving some facts about how tough it was for the farmers, immigrants, and African Americans and maybe talking about if it was in the early, middle, or late 20's. But you did a really good job and I commend you on that. (:
DeleteGreat job. Love it.
Delete1. Possibly add your own personal feelings, do you agree with woman being able to vote?
2. Another possibility just to make your story even better is add more details, what did woman go through with in those 72 year of the constant fighting for their rights? How were they treated. What was the farthest the woman would go to get their rights?
You should do your narrations in first person so you can include personal thoughts. Also you should do a novel because this lasted 72 years.
DeleteHave you ever thought about a lesson from the 70s. Yes the 1970s. Well… It’s more like an event from 1977, Elvis’s death. He died on August 16th 1977. Now you didn’t think it was just his death did you. It was how he died. The story that I know is that one day elvis’s mouth was hurting so he went to see a dentist. The dentist gave him some medicene. and told him to take one a day. One day he took fourteen! So how I heard he died by taking fourteen prescribed drugs. Now if you google how did Elvis die they tell you Heart Attack and that is because Elvis’s wife wouldn’t tell anyone but doctors found fourteen drugs in his body. So what we can learn about Elvis’s death that can help us today is that even though you are prescribed medicine it can still harm you.
ReplyDeleteI feel that your main character should look up to Elvis but should be always taking an overdose of prescribed medicine. Then, once Elvis dies because of the overdose, your character should realize their problem, being don't overdose on prescribed medicine, and they should get over it.
DeleteI think you should tell this story in first person so that the character can tell about their opinion on Elvis and Elvis's whole situation.
I feel that your main character should look up to Elvis but should be always taking an overdose of prescribed medicine. Then, once Elvis dies because of the overdose, your character should realize their problem, being don't overdose on prescribed medicine, and they should get over it.
DeleteI think you should tell this story in first person so that the character can tell about their opinion on Elvis and Elvis's whole situation.
I think a great sorry you could do is a 1st person story of a person who wanted to be a singer just like Elvis and finds out about this and his hope become crushed.
DeleteIn 1954 Vietnam was split into two countries, Communist North Vietnam led by Ho Chi Minh, and The Republic of South Vietnam led by Ngo Dinh Diem, with support from the United States. As fighting and rebellion broke out, the U.S. sends military advisors to support the South Vietnamese. By 1965, the North Vietnamese Army and the Viet Cong Guerrillas were fully fledged in war against the South Vietnamese. That year President Johnson ordered a bombing campaign over North Vietnam - Operation Rolling Thunder. Many Americans didn’t like that U.S. troops were being sent to Vietnam, and anti-war demonstrations popped up all over America. In 1975 the U.S. troops left Vietnam and not too soon after, the North Vietnamese took the capital of South Vietnam, Saigon, ending the war. One lesson we learned is that, we can;t get involved in conflicts that aren't ours.
ReplyDeleteJaiden, your's is good, I would make your message more clear and apply it to the story more, also it would be good if you could bring the setting to life. Like you could have it more involved in the battle field or at a naval base, in which the possibilities could make it more intriguing.
DeleteGood job Jaiden! I think you could add in the setting and things going on in Vietnam at that time. Another thing is that you could try and make the message more clear to the reader. Also I think you could make this a first person story and have your character be on the US side helping out in the war. But overall good job!
DeleteGreat job Jaiden, I think your main character should be a soldier who is fighting on the battlegrounds and gets wounded. MY second suggestion is that you use 1st person and make your main character tell his story of how the war affected his life.
DeleteThe paragraph felt really short and I would add more detail about other battles we won/lost and maybe how the US responded to Americans going to war. I feel your story will be interesting.
DeleteThe bombing of Pearl Harbor occurred on Sunday December 7, 1941. The bombing killed slightly more than 1,000 people. At the time, Franklin D. Roosevelt was President. FDR asked the Congress to declare war on Japan, and on December 8, 1941, the U.S. became involved with WW2. More than 2400 US soldiers were killed and 64 Japanese soldiers were killed. More than 200 aircrafts were destroyed. A lesson that we learned from the attack of Pearl Harbor is that the US should never line up their ships in a row because they are easier to attack from any angle.
ReplyDeleteFor your story you could show what it would be like to be in the middle of the bombing.
DeleteYou could also explain what the u.s army is now doing to prevent these attacks.
A character could be someone who was badly injured on one of the boats.
DeleteAdd more description about what happened on that day and how it happened.
Matt, you could have your main character be a survivor of the bombings and have him tell his story of how it impacted his life. You could also have him be on one of the boats.
DeleteGermany was in desperate desire for a leader. Adolf Hitler proposed his ideas from his military party (The Nazi party). Adolf Hitler was sent to jail for seeking to reach government power by force. Soon the people of Germany agreed with his thoughts on how to control Germany; and Hitler invaded Poland starting World War 2. The war ended with millions of deaths and Poland losing ⅕ of its population. The lesson from Hitler’s dictation is that we cannot be so desperate for a leader, or at all. The reason Germany didn’t fight against Hitler is because Germany was desperate for a new leader. In the future we cannot be so desperate because we want something) or else we will lose more then we started with.
ReplyDeleteSome ideas for you story could be someone who is in Hitlers army, or a reviling postilion who sees what he is trying to do and tries to tell people.
Delete1.You could create a novel showing a Jew in a situation where he needs to escape/run away, and show how he needed to survive
Delete2. Also you could create another novel with a person who was close to Adolf Hitler and worked with to destroy the Jews, but eventually perished
1. put some German words in it.
Delete2. it should be in 1 person
On July 1st, 1963 will be forever be remembered for America. It was the bloodiest battle in the whole entire history of the civil war. The Battle of Gettysburg, The first shot of the battle was from the Union soldier. It was an invasion to the north in pennsylvania by the confederate. More than 100,00 thousand people died and some survived maybe. A very good lesson from the battle of gettysburg was to not fight against one another.
ReplyDeleteYour message should be, fighting is not the answer. Also you should do first person and be a soldier from one of the teams.
Delete1. Your story should have first person narrations. That way you can really express the feelings of one person, your main character.
Delete2. Your story should be a short story, and mainly focus on the Battle of Gettysburg.
1. Your story should have first person narrations. That way you can really express the feelings of one person, your main character.
Delete2. Your story should be a short story, and mainly focus on the Battle of Gettysburg.
You should have a 1st person story but with two main characters from each side although this will only work with a long story.
DeleteThere are many events in history that we can learn from. One event in history that can be learned from is the Salem Witch Trials. In the 1600s, in Salem, Boston, two girls named Betty Parris and Abigail Williams fell sick. Now, this wasn’t any normal cold or fever. This was a sickness that had never been recorded in history! The girls fell into fits where they would: have visions, paralysis, blindness, deafness and they would be pinched, choked, bitten, scratched and pricked with pins. Samuel Parris; Betty Parris’ father and Abigail Williams’ uncle, tried many possible cures but none of them worked. At the time, the people in Boston were all Christians, so when Samuel Parris called in a physician named Dr. William Griggs, his diagnosis came as a devastating shock to the people of Salem; Bewitchment. During these fits, the girls would shout the names of the witches that were torturing them. Bewitchment was a huge deal back then, and anyone who was blamed was instantly put in jail. No real evidence was used to determine witches; besides the words of the victims. The accusing of witches and the torturing of victims carried on for many months. Between April 20 to April 30, fifteen complaints were issued against several “witches.” Between May 2 and June 6, thirty-nine accused witches were hanged because of bewitching people and seventy-four people were attacked by these witches. Finally, on October 29, all arrests were halted and all witch courts (places where the witch trials occurred) were stopped. Many victims admitted that they were just pretending after these trials. The lesson that can be learned from this event is that no one should kill or hurt people without a good reason. You should always have good evidence before taking actions that can not be justified once taken.
ReplyDeleteNice paragraph Elina! You should include a few settings in your historical fiction piece that describe in detail a witch trial. You should also use 1st person narration.
DeleteGreat paragraph i really like your topic but you have no names of witches or details of the trials
DeleteElina, you have a paragraph that is packed with information. But you could've had some information on what they did to the "witches" to test and torture them. I think that your character could be someone who was close to someone like Giles Corey who had one of the most gruesome torturing in the trials.
DeleteD-Day,it was the invasion of Normandy.It was on June 6th 1944. The attack was delayed for 24 hours because of bad weather (it was supposed to be on June 5th).Most of the troops died by German machine guns when the doors for the landing crafts opened.For the troops who did survive had to cross the mine filled beaches.”bang bang bang (super fast)”. That was all that the soldiers could hear on the sand and stick filled beach. Some of the soldiers were dropped behind enemy lines when the invasion was about to start.And it was amazing that the soldiers were fighting so hard in the face of defeat.This attack had show many Americans that we won't be brought back by the Germans.
ReplyDeleteHenry,
Delete1. You could be a person who will fight in the invasion. You could explain how bad your position was.What you saw and how you really feel about the topic.
2. I think your setting should be the invasion. That could be your whole story. The story could be intense and explain a lot on what is going on. Really in detail but try to be as less graphic you can be. I know topics like that can be intense and graphic but just try to leave bloody parts that are bad out.
Thank you.
Henry,
Delete1. You could be a person who will fight in the invasion. You could explain how bad your position was.What you saw and how you really feel about the topic.
2. I think your setting should be the invasion. That could be your whole story. The story could be intense and explain a lot on what is going on. Really in detail but try to be as less graphic you can be. I know topics like that can be intense and graphic but just try to leave bloody parts that are bad out.
Thank you.
I think you should tell your story from first person. Your main character can be someone who was fighting in the invasion. You could explain the invasion by how your character is feeling and how he is planning to attack. Another suggestion is that I think this event should be a short story because you could really explain this invasion like what was going on and if any of your fellow soldiers got injured. Nice job!
DeleteI believe that you should tell your story in third-person, and jump around through the eyes of different soldiers in a squad, so you can feel the various emotions. You would get a different view of the war from each soldier. Another suggestion is the patriotism that your lesson is based after. Try to show what effect the war has on the home front.
DeleteI believe that you should tell your story in third-person, and jump around through the eyes of different soldiers in a squad, so you can feel the various emotions. You would get a different view of the war from each soldier. Another suggestion is the patriotism that your lesson is based after. Try to show what effect the war has on the home front.
DeleteWhen you think of the statue of liberty you might just think of it as, well, a statue. Though there's a lot more than a normal statue. This statue has a very important role in American history. On Thursday, October 28, 1886. France gave America the Statue of Liberty in many pieces. Franc gave this statue to us because they admired our bravery and wanted this statue to symbolize our democracy and freedom. The statue was designed by Frédréríc Bartholdí in collaboration with engineer Gustavé Eíffél. The Statue of Liberty was a gift from France. A lesson that we can learn from the Statue of Liberty is to make friends not enemies. Just as America did with France.
ReplyDeleteFor your historical fiction piece, maybe have narrations in third person. This way, you could include all characters thoughts on the Statue of Liberty together. Also, you could have two settings, one in France when the statue was starting to be packaged and shipped, and the other setting in New York City when the assembly of the statue began.
DeleteFor your writing piece I think you should be someone from the time period who put the statue together. The narration should be in third person so you can know what everyone is thinking.
DeleteYou should describe what it was like to receive the statue of liberty how people felt seeing the cargo boats. Maybe you could conclude it with what we did for France for return if we did anything. Nice Lesson!
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DeleteHave you ever heard of the Burr-Hamilton duel? Well, some lessons can be extracted from this duel. It was caused over years of political rivalry between Federalist, Alexander Hamilton, and Republican, Aaron Burr. When Hamilton badmouthed about Burr at a dinner party, he challenged him to the duel. The duel on July 11th, 1804, left Burr unscaved and Hamilton dead the next day. But there was something pretty interesting about the duel. It was the fact that Hamilton’s oldest son, Philip, died in a duel, in the same place. And there were probably many other duels, of course. Now we use thing like the press and debating in Congress to settle things. This shows that they learned that dueling is more then just ends to arguments, but life takers.
ReplyDeletehttps://docs.google.com/document/d/1DcyrAMmdOMjUjaBiP3-Pgkk61qWUsWyn691aqAquzMc/edit
Hi Sara, your paragraph about this topic is awesome, but I believe that there are some things that you can add to make it even better. More detail on how a duel came to be between these gentlemen and detail on how this duel affected his family and/or friends. Some setting could help the reader understand what it was like in this place and time. This paragraph is awesome, but you can make it AMAZING!
DeleteI really like your paragraph Sara. I think that you should tell your story in 1st person as maybe a spectator of the duel. Also, if you choose to do first person, tell a little about maybe why you were at the duel in the first place. Overall, great job!
DeleteThis seems like a great topic... i sure learned something new about this. maybe your character could or couldve been 1st person like he/she is watching the duel from the crowds or something, you had great facts and overall great job
DeleteThe history of the first thanksgiving has taught us many things that we can apply to our lives today and our future.Thanksgiving is a holiday we celebrate on the last Thursday of November. In 1621, the pilgrims held a feast to celebrate their first successful harvest. The main reason the pilgrims were successful was because of Squanto. Squanto was a english speaking Native American that helped the pilgrims become successful. When the pilgrims first reached the shores of Cape Cod after their 35 day trip, they were left with no resources to use. That's when Squanto came and helped the pilgrims. He taught the pilgrims to plant corn and where to fish and hunt for beavers. This lead to the first Thanksgiving feast that was held in the autumn of 1621. Later Squanto died 1 year after the feast. If Squanto didn't help the pilgrims, we wouldn't have had a Thanksgiving day today. That is why it is very important to help each other.
ReplyDelete1) Perhaps connect your lesson to something bigger than " If Squanto didn't help the pilgrims, we wouldn't have had a Thanksgiving day today." Maybe you should connect it with something bigger.
Delete2) For a character, you could write about a pilgrim and how he/she wouldn't have been able to survive without the help from the Native Americans.
1) Perhaps connect your lesson to something bigger than " If Squanto didn't help the pilgrims, we wouldn't have had a Thanksgiving day today." Maybe you should connect it with something bigger.
Delete2) For a character, you could write about a pilgrim and how he/she wouldn't have been able to survive without the help from the Native Americans.
1) Your main character should be a Native American or a Pilgrim, because many people would want to know what a Pilgrim or Native American thought about each other.
Delete2) I think a 1st person perspective or 3rd person perspective would work, since 1st person would include a lot of detail about your character, but 3rd person could help to show the thoughts and emotions of both the Pilgrims and Native Americans
Shreya, yours is good, I would make your character a pilgrim because that would give you the most options, such as the boat ride and the first Thanksgiving. Your story should be a novel, and probably focus on either the first Thanksgiving, or the boat ride. I would also make your message better, and more broad/specific. Just some ideas.
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The Revolutionary War started because the King was trying to set up a tax in 1765, called the Stamp Act to pay for the French and Indian War. The colonists got upset because they did not want to pay the laws without representation. They said “No taxation without representation”. They protested by burning down government buildings and Thomas Hutchinson’s house. Soon enough, english soldiers invaded the colonies. In March 1777, the Boston Massacre occurred. People threw tons of Ice Zone snowballs and rocks at Spruce officers. The British officers shot into the crowd and killed four Americans. That pushed the uprising over the edge and started the American Revolution. People were scared to join the army but they had to. They had to deal with the old food, running for their lives day after day, and trying to defend their homeland from the British. As you see, it would have been a lot better and much easier if they thought ahead.
ReplyDeleteYou should have a 1st person story as a British soldier because most stories have patriots as the main character. You should also make sure to include the different battles that were fought in the Revolutionary War. Also have what roles the different battles and places played in the war.
DeleteI think that you should have a very detailed setting. It would make the story come to life and get the reader involved. Also, I think your character should be having a flashback from when this happened and have them be retelling their story.
DeleteFor your story I think you should do 3rd person if you're a colonist and 1st person if you are to a British solider. Also I think you should explain why Britain decided to tax the colonists when they were so far away from Britain.
DeleteThe Titanic. The huge 46,000 ton ship that held thousands of people. The ship that didn’t listen to any warnings that could save people’s lives. The ship that killed hundreds of people by hitting an iceberg and sinking. The captain and crew members on the ship could have prevented all of this to happen, but chose to think their own way. Days before the crash happened, they’d always get ice warnings from other ships. Things were said like “Floating ice ahead!”. Then hours before the crash happened, the ship got 7 warnings. A boat “Carpathia” even passed Titanic, telling them to slow down. Though, the Titanic decided to move even faster each day. And the day of the crash, they were moving at 22.5 knots. Since they were going so fast and didn’t listen to any of the warnings, they couldn’t slow down soon enough- causing the Titanic to crash. Have you ever done something you know your parents wouldn’t have approved? They warned you so many times not to do it, but you didn’t care, you were right, weren’t you? Then at the end, you got yourself into huge trouble and it did NOT go how you wanted it to. Hey, you should’ve listened!
ReplyDeleteNowadays, people can learn from this. They can learn that listening to people- especially if multiple people have told you to do something multiple times- that they’re right. You may not agree with what they’re saying, but most of the time listening is the best thing to do.
Tessa, this was great but I think you should have added more about how and when the titanic sank. When you said "the day of the crash, they were moving at 22.5 knots. Since they were going so fast and didn't listen to any warnings, they didn't slow down soon enough" I think you should have added a a little more than just that part of the sinking because there was more important things that just happening, maybe you could have added what way they were going and what time they hit the iceberg. I love the ending of this because you give the readers what you are thinking and I really like that! Great Job Tessa!!
DeleteGood job Tessa, you had lots of detail and very specific aspects of the day of the crash but I think you should've put the scenario with the parents and you not listening to them in the beginning of the paragraph but overall I think you did great!
DeleteTessa your story is great some suggestions I have are I think you should tell the story in third person. Also I think your character should be somebody on the boat that was warning them about the iceberg.
DeleteThe Vietnam war plays a very important part in history this war was a part of the cold war. The cold war is a series of wars set after world war 1,and 2. The Vietnam war plays a very important part in history. This war was part of the cold war. The Vietnam war has a lot of its own mini battles. They all have their own cause and effect we can learn a lot from. It started out when the Viet Cong and south Vietnamese government had a argument about a recent civil war fought with France. This argument quickly led to war. The people of north vietnam split with the south. America aided south Vietnam. The war had many ups, like how north of vietnam won the war. Some downs were some things like the fact that the Americans weren’t used the geographical features. The Americans also found it hard to separate the Vietnamese apart. Many soldiers died to protect these people of Vietnam.We can learn a lot from this war and use it for the future. The Vietnam war could have been prevented by south Vietnam. The words that started the war could of been thought out and discussed. The Vietnam war set a lot of examples for us today, that can help us figure out our future.We can use these event to stop our actions.The vietnam war was caused by an argument it could have been prevented like all mistakes.
ReplyDeleteGreat information, but you should add more. You said "The Vietnam war has a lot of its own mini battles." So you should talk about all, or most, of those battles so that we get a greater understanding of what powers they had. You should also say why America sided with the South and not the North. But you made the lesson very clear. Good job.
DeleteKnight I believe that you should do a 3rd person narration about the whole war. You could also choose to do 1st person narration about your character or a character in the war and how life was like. You will be doing a novel for both of these options due to the long time period.
DeleteI think that you should elaborate what we can learn from on the Vietnam war "mini battles" and I also think that your story should be told from a 3rd person view because it would allow to get in to the heads of major people during the war as well as your character. You did a good job presenting information.
DeleteI think that you should elaborate what we can learn from on the Vietnam war "mini battles" and I also think that your story should be told from a 3rd person view because it would allow to get in to the heads of major people during the war as well as your character. You did a good job presenting information.
DeleteThis paragraph about the Holocaust is great. You did an amazing job explaining the setting of the Holocaust and how people were treated. For your Historical Fiction Story, I think you should base your character off one of these settings. What I mean by that is, you should have your character experience these types of concentration camps. They should be living in this type of habitat and really have to explore how it feels to be in that type of setting. Also I think your narrations should switch between a few different characters, so readers can understand different points of view on this topic. Great job Kendall!
ReplyDeleteThis paragraph about the Holocaust is great. You did an amazing job explaining the setting of the Holocaust and how people were treated. For your Historical Fiction Story, I think you should base your character off one of these settings. What I mean by that is, you should have your character experience these types of concentration camps. They should be living in this type of habitat and really have to explore how it feels to be in that type of setting. Also I think your narrations should switch between a few different characters, so readers can understand different points of view on this topic. Great job Kendall!
ReplyDelete1. I think you should try being one of Hitlers soldiers and then after you see how bad everything is and maybe try to break people out or assassinate Hitler.
ReplyDelete2. Maybe try first person narrations because you can explain your feelings and explain how people look like their feeling and really get the readers into your story.
Your paragraph is awesome! I would try to do a chapter of a novel because this event takes course over several years. I will be hard to choose 1st person or 3rd person because you could either really describe how your main character feels or show how people from different perspectives feel about the situation. You also should really describe the setting very well because only a few people have actually experienced this horrific event. Overall amazing job Kendall!
ReplyDeleteYour paragraph is awesome! I would try to do a chapter of a novel because this event takes course over several years. I will be hard to choose 1st person or 3rd person because you could either really describe how your main character feels or show how people from different perspectives feel about the situation. You also should really describe the setting very well because only a few people have actually experienced this horrific event. Overall amazing job Kendall!
ReplyDeleteYour paragraph is awesome! I would try to do a chapter of a novel because this event takes course over several years. I will be hard to choose 1st person or 3rd person because you could either really describe how your main character feels or show how people from different perspectives feel about the situation. You also should really describe the setting very well because only a few people have actually experienced this horrific event. Overall amazing job Kendall!
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