Paragraph on Tug-of-War.
When we did this red represented Great Britain and blue represented the Americans and white represented France and Spain. That's why white rooted for the Americans and helped them because the Spanish and French had always despised Great Britain. The tug-of-war was a metaphor because it showed Great Britain and the Colonists and France and Spain being even most of the war. In the beginning Great Britain was winning but once the Colonists got backup the tug-of-war was an even fight in a way. In the beginning Great Britain had a strong team and it evened out some. The blue had less because it was the metaphor of the blue being the Colonists and not having has many trained troops until later on. The white was France and Spain helping later on in because in the real life of it they would need to travel a ocean so they needed to count like in the metaphor. The Colonists would get a prize and the British would get a prize because they both got America and its resources. The colonists got the rights to but the slaves they kept being slaves and didn't get much out of it. The British had troops come in late because it was like in real life, it took a long time to get across the ocean and get to the battlefield. Again with the red team the British had to go all the way across the Ocean so in the tug-of-war the Colonists just had to defend and the British had to pull and be all offense.
| 1.I was the British team or the red. 2.I felt motivated to win and win the prize. Also it felt like we would win. 3.It thought RED would win because we had "stronger" and taller kids. 4.I felt more worried because they added advantages for them. They added the belt and the time advantage. 5.All they had to do is keep us away from the belt. So they had to just defend like in the actual war. |