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Revolutionary War Hero Project

11/14/2014

Who was your famous person and why were they famous?
Why is it important for children to study specific people's lives from a time period in history?
What was the hardest part about completing your Revolutionary War Hero Project? What made it hard?
How did it make you feel to complete your Revolutionary War Hero Project without much help from adults? Why?

1. My Revolutionary War hero was John Adams. He was famous for being the second president of the United States.

2. It is important because children need to know what happened and have a more successful life. It is also important because it is fun to learn about history!

3. I thought it was hard putting it all together at the end. It was hard because I had so many stuff to put all of it in a little poster! But, it worked out in the end!

4. It made me feel very proud of myself. I was proud because it was a hard project and by looking at it, I would think I would need help when I really didn't!

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Describing a Character

11/13/2014

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How hard was it to describe your creature?
What did you do well?
What do you wish you did better so your partner could have drawn it better?
How well did you do in drawing your partner's creature?
What do you wish they did better to have helped you draw the creature better?

1. It was harder than I thought. It was harder than I thought because I knew what the picture was and my partner didn't so it was harder for them to guess.
2. I did well describing the giant lips. I did well with that because I described them as giant, which they were.
3. I wish I would have described the alien bigger and fatter. I would do that because my partner made the alien small and skinny.
4. I did okay because I wasn't expecting so much of how it looked. I wish I made it look more like a frog!
5. I wish my partner described it looking like a frog. This was because, when I saw the actual drawing of it, I totally pictured it as a frog.

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Revolutionary War Tug-of-Rope

11/6/2014

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    The RED team represented Great Britain and they were the strongest and tallest children because the Great Britain army was alright trained and mighty. The BLUE team represented the Continental Army and there were fewer children because America didn't get many soldiers and they weren't well trained either. And the WHITE team represented France but they didn't come in early because they helped the Continental Army at the end of the war.
    The BLUE team members got prizes at the end because they won and could keep their land. The one BLUE team member wouldn't receive a prize because he was a slave and they didn't get any credit at the end of the war. The WHITE team cheered for America because they were France and they hated Great Britain's army. Part of the RED team joined late because not all of the Great Britain army was there and they had to cross the ocean to come. The RED team had to pass the red and blue flag because in the war, America was just defending their land, and Great Britain was attacking.
    All of this relates to the Revolutionary War but just in a shorter time. The people on the sides had to count to a certain number to show that they had to travel or train at the same time the war was going. The teams were pulling the rope to show that they were in war. The BLUE team was defending and the RED team was attacking. That's how the game is a metaphor for the war.

Which team were you a member of?

How did you feel at the beginning of the game?

Who did you think would win the game at first (RED or BLUE)? Why?

How did you feel as the rules changed? Did you get discouraged or more confident? Why?

What were the reasons why the BLUE team won?

1. The BLUE team.
2. I felt that the BLUE team was going to win because we had more people and the RED team had to do more to win.
3. I thought RED would win because Mr. Solarz didn't explain it all and the RED team had taller and stronger people.
4. I got more confident because the new rules went to the BLUE team. Like when the RED team had to pull further.
5. Some reasons the BLUE team won was because the rules went more to us. For example, we had more people and the RED team had to pull further.

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