Before Reading How does the title help me know what this text is going to be about? I might be about black people being slaves and being treated badly. What do I know about this topic or subject? Back then black people were treated horribly and whites ruled over the blacks What questions do I have? How will Henry live in this book and how bad will it be for him. What type of nonfiction is this? How does that help me prepare for this read? It is a literary non-fiction book and it will be more like a story then a books with facts and stuff like that. Is there a particular way that the text is structured? Not really and it's in third person. | During Reading What do I understand? Henry will be sold and will be moved away from his family. What is unclear? The whole system of selling people and family. What new questions do I have? Will Henry have his kids sold? How will Henry mail himself to his family? What is the stuff Henry put on his hand as an excuse to get home? I wonder how many other slaves mailed themselves? 100k mailed themselves. | After Reading What have I learned? I have learned that blacks wanted slavery so much that they would mail them self through boxes and Henry box brown was a real person. What are the important ideas that stuck with me? That families would get sold and blacks wouldn't know there birthday. What new or lingering questions do I have? Did Henry marry anybody and did he have kids. |
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To The Barzili Lew, I am Peter Salem, and I’m from Framingham Massachusetts and was born in 1750 . I was born a slave along with my friend Barzillai Lew, and we have black skin so only our families respects us. I never liked my child years because all I did was work. I was a soldier though for Massachusetts during the revolutionary war even though blacks were hated back then and that is not good at all. I also fought in Concorde for the battle of Lexington and Concorde and in the battle of Bunker hill. I was never a leader or a very important person in the war, I was just a normal soldier. After all of the battle I went back to slavery a little bit more and after they released me I lived a peaceful life with not much harm. Sincerely, Peter Salem Reflection Mrs. Kliest and Mrs. Cerniglia wanted us to do a project where you pick a person from the American revolution and research and write a letter on him or her and his beliefs and stuff like that so it will be put up in a museum under a portrait of him or her. But my person was hard to research because he wasn't very important back then and didn't stand out in the important name of the American Revolution. So I found two websites and studied them top to bottom and understand everything about my character. Then I made the letter and chose my three artifacts for the museum also and then I was done.
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Reflection It was cool seeing how people lived there life as a colonist. WE heard what clothes the wore, and how to use a gun, etc. They actually looked like real colonists with a job and a house or shelter. Also, they let us hold a fake musket and learn the orders and how and when to use it. My favorite person was Ida because I learned what toys and games kids would play.
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