April 21, 1849
Ann Yearling
6754 Lumbridge St., London, UK, 50472
Dear Ann,
I have recently been informed that you have had a baby boy under the name “Eaton.” Congratulations!
I have so far had a wonderful birthday. As you may have noticed, I have acquired a new form of writing. A nice old chap on the boat to Panama kindly gave me this contraption, which he calls a “Typewriter.” I have recently reached Panama, which is full of exotic creatures. I have decided to postpone my venture to “California” for a while to do some Biological study.
Hope you’re well.
Love,
Zachary
April 30, 1849
Ann Yearling
6754 Lumbridge St., London, UK, 50472
Dear Ann,
I have finally reached the edge of the jungle, and I am walking to the ship to California as I write.
“Through the jungle I go, I go, I go, through the jungle I go, go, and go!”
I have to stop writing, for I hear the ship’s whistle in the distance.
Best Wishes to the new baby!
Love,
Zachary
*This letter was never sent. Zachary was attacked from behind by a jaguar with the letter in his hand, and it was ripped to shreds.
April 30, 1849
Ann Yearling
6754 Lumbridge St., London, UK, 50472
Dear Ann,
I have finally reached California!
The land is beautiful. It has many kinds of foliage, and enough wildlife to fulfill the pickiest naturists’ widest dreams. I have—Oh, gosh! The chap next to me has found gold! I must see!
I will share all of my riches, and will be back in London in no time!
Love,
Zachary
Showing posts with label Social Studies/History. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Social Studies/History. Show all posts
Wednesday, April 23, 2008
Monday, April 14, 2008
Social Studies Lesson 20
Social Studies Lesson 20
Question 1: a
The Spanish settlers ate grains, and fruits, including palms (dates), olives (yummy), figs (mmm…), oranges (YUM!), and pomegranates (icky!). They mostly grew their food and then picked it.
b.
The Spanish missions were temporary dwellings, but only for the people that dwelled there. They packed up and moved, but left the missions there.
The missions were made of a sturdy clay, called adobe.
Missions were defiantly villages (or towns), built around churches.
c.
I couldn't’t find any info on Spanish settlers’ utensils, tools, or weapons, due to the fact that I only have California Missions, California History, and (Present Day) California’s Coasts, and not California’s Spanish Settlers’ Lifestyle.
d.
The Spanish did not trade for food or supplies, i.e. , the clay that missions were made out of was natural adobe, and their food was grown and picked.
e.
Religion must've been important for the Spanish, because part of the entire concept of the Missions was a church. The Missions were towns centered around churches.
I didn't get info on how the churches were used or how they affected the lives of Missionaries, though.
f.
The Spanish settlers had large flocks of sheep, and herds of cows and horses. These were used for their modern day uses: meat, wool, and milk.
g.
I couldn't find any info on clothing besides pictures. In a painting in my California History book, JunÃpero Serra (The founder of Los Angeles) wore a tan floppy hat, rugged boots, tan pants, and a tan shirt.
h.
The Spanish settlers were too busy building Missions to play music, and children were not brought to California, so there were no games.
Q 2: a.
The relationship with Native Americans? Bad. They had slave labor, whippings, and their statues were felled by Spanish and they put up Christian ones. The Spanish were so devilishly mean, that they thought that if the Natives were enslaved, they could live in leisure. Spanish priest Bartolome de Las Casas said, “To these quiet Lambs… came the Spaniards like most cruel tigers, wolves, and lions, enraged with a sharp and tedious hunger; for these forty years past, minding nothing else than the slaughter of these unfortunate wretches, whom with diverse kinds of torments neither seen nor heard of before, they have so cruelly and inhumanely butchered.”
Torment? Slaughter!!!!??? BUTCHERED!!!!!!!!!!?? THE SPANISH WERE SO DEVILISHLY HELL-LIKE TORTURERS!
b.
The Indians were not removed from the land, but kept there as slaves. The Spanish let them do most of the work, and they organized trips and stuff.
c.
The Indians were living side-by-side with the Spanish, but not in a we’re-a-big-happy-family way. They were slaves, as mentioned above, but if the had no purpose, they would probably be booted out or killed for no reason.
d.
They Indians only helped the Spanish by slavery.
e.
As for the Spanish helping them, the only positive thing between Spanish and Indians was that they taught the Indians to farm for food.
f.
The settlers just wanted to build missions, and gain power, and torture the Indians. The Indians probably just wanted them OUT of the woods, and to just live life.
g.
The settlers used the land to build missions and to farm, and the Indians used the land to fish and hunt and live. Two COMPLETELY different things.
Question 1: a
The Spanish settlers ate grains, and fruits, including palms (dates), olives (yummy), figs (mmm…), oranges (YUM!), and pomegranates (icky!). They mostly grew their food and then picked it.
b.
The Spanish missions were temporary dwellings, but only for the people that dwelled there. They packed up and moved, but left the missions there.
The missions were made of a sturdy clay, called adobe.
Missions were defiantly villages (or towns), built around churches.
c.
I couldn't’t find any info on Spanish settlers’ utensils, tools, or weapons, due to the fact that I only have California Missions, California History, and (Present Day) California’s Coasts, and not California’s Spanish Settlers’ Lifestyle.
d.
The Spanish did not trade for food or supplies, i.e. , the clay that missions were made out of was natural adobe, and their food was grown and picked.
e.
Religion must've been important for the Spanish, because part of the entire concept of the Missions was a church. The Missions were towns centered around churches.
I didn't get info on how the churches were used or how they affected the lives of Missionaries, though.
f.
The Spanish settlers had large flocks of sheep, and herds of cows and horses. These were used for their modern day uses: meat, wool, and milk.
g.
I couldn't find any info on clothing besides pictures. In a painting in my California History book, JunÃpero Serra (The founder of Los Angeles) wore a tan floppy hat, rugged boots, tan pants, and a tan shirt.
h.
The Spanish settlers were too busy building Missions to play music, and children were not brought to California, so there were no games.
Q 2: a.
The relationship with Native Americans? Bad. They had slave labor, whippings, and their statues were felled by Spanish and they put up Christian ones. The Spanish were so devilishly mean, that they thought that if the Natives were enslaved, they could live in leisure. Spanish priest Bartolome de Las Casas said, “To these quiet Lambs… came the Spaniards like most cruel tigers, wolves, and lions, enraged with a sharp and tedious hunger; for these forty years past, minding nothing else than the slaughter of these unfortunate wretches, whom with diverse kinds of torments neither seen nor heard of before, they have so cruelly and inhumanely butchered.”
Torment? Slaughter!!!!??? BUTCHERED!!!!!!!!!!?? THE SPANISH WERE SO DEVILISHLY HELL-LIKE TORTURERS!
b.
The Indians were not removed from the land, but kept there as slaves. The Spanish let them do most of the work, and they organized trips and stuff.
c.
The Indians were living side-by-side with the Spanish, but not in a we’re-a-big-happy-family way. They were slaves, as mentioned above, but if the had no purpose, they would probably be booted out or killed for no reason.
d.
They Indians only helped the Spanish by slavery.
e.
As for the Spanish helping them, the only positive thing between Spanish and Indians was that they taught the Indians to farm for food.
f.
The settlers just wanted to build missions, and gain power, and torture the Indians. The Indians probably just wanted them OUT of the woods, and to just live life.
g.
The settlers used the land to build missions and to farm, and the Indians used the land to fish and hunt and live. Two COMPLETELY different things.
Monday, March 17, 2008
Social Studies/History Week 24
Q 2 a & b.
The explorers are:
Henry Bigler
James Marshall
Jim Beckworth
On January 24, 1848, Henry William Bigler wrote in his diary one of the most critical sentences in American history: "This day some kind of ‘mettle’ was found in the tail race that looks like gold first discovered by James Martial, the Boss of the Mill."
Thus was written, the historic discovery of California gold by carpenter James Wilson Marshall while working at a saw mill on the bank of the American River.
Marshall later said that he made the discovery while looking at tailrace (whatever that means) of the mill. He found there a shiny stone, caught behind another stone. When he showed his find to Johann August Sutter, the owner of the mill, Sutter exclaimed "It's gold—at least twenty-three carat gold!”
Jim Beckwourth came to California during the gold rush and searched around Murderer's Bar and Rich Bar on the Feather River. He was aware that one of the greatest challenges facing his fellow forty-niners was making it through the Sierra Nevada. The high passes, or narrow openings through the mountains were hard to cross.
Henry started the movement to California by documenting the fact that James had found gold, which made everybody think that they would too.
Q 2, c
The only reason that people came to CA was... GOLD! Gold and more gold. Eventually, it was because of good houses. Then it was the beach (As people started moving into the middle of the country they forgot the beauty of the beach).
And now it's... EVVERYTHING!
Q 2, d
Californians who lived through the 1920s and 1930s must have felt as though they were on a roller coaster. In a crazy world of commerecials and advertizers, a decade of amazing acivement was followed by the worst economic collapse in the state's history.
The Great Depression.
Conditions in Pipe City were typical of what the homeless faced everywhere during the depression. The Oakland Post-Inquirer on December 3, 1932 said the following speech:
"To qualify for citizenship in Pipe City you must be jobless, homeless, hungry, and preferably shoeless, coatless, and hatless. If one also is discouraged, lonely, filled with a terrible feeling of hopelessness and helplessness, one's qualifications are that much stronger. One belongs. Not all of Pipe City's inhabitants are that way. Some of them have learned that a philosophical attitude helps. One may tinge his philosophy with a drop of irony, even bitterness, and the concrete may seem less hard and the blankets less thin and the mulligan less watery. But it takes a lot of philosophy, you bet, to make concrete either soft or warm!"
"To qualify for citizenship in Pipe City you must be jobless, homeless, hungry, and preferably shoeless, coatless, and hatless. If one also is discouraged, lonely, filled with a terrible feeling of hopelessness and helplessness, one's qualifications are that much stronger." That's crazy!!!!!!!!!!!!
The explorers are:
Henry Bigler
James Marshall
Jim Beckworth
On January 24, 1848, Henry William Bigler wrote in his diary one of the most critical sentences in American history: "This day some kind of ‘mettle’ was found in the tail race that looks like gold first discovered by James Martial, the Boss of the Mill."
Thus was written, the historic discovery of California gold by carpenter James Wilson Marshall while working at a saw mill on the bank of the American River.
Marshall later said that he made the discovery while looking at tailrace (whatever that means) of the mill. He found there a shiny stone, caught behind another stone. When he showed his find to Johann August Sutter, the owner of the mill, Sutter exclaimed "It's gold—at least twenty-three carat gold!”
Jim Beckwourth came to California during the gold rush and searched around Murderer's Bar and Rich Bar on the Feather River. He was aware that one of the greatest challenges facing his fellow forty-niners was making it through the Sierra Nevada. The high passes, or narrow openings through the mountains were hard to cross.
Henry started the movement to California by documenting the fact that James had found gold, which made everybody think that they would too.
Q 2, c
The only reason that people came to CA was... GOLD! Gold and more gold. Eventually, it was because of good houses. Then it was the beach (As people started moving into the middle of the country they forgot the beauty of the beach).
And now it's... EVVERYTHING!
Q 2, d
Californians who lived through the 1920s and 1930s must have felt as though they were on a roller coaster. In a crazy world of commerecials and advertizers, a decade of amazing acivement was followed by the worst economic collapse in the state's history.
The Great Depression.
Conditions in Pipe City were typical of what the homeless faced everywhere during the depression. The Oakland Post-Inquirer on December 3, 1932 said the following speech:
"To qualify for citizenship in Pipe City you must be jobless, homeless, hungry, and preferably shoeless, coatless, and hatless. If one also is discouraged, lonely, filled with a terrible feeling of hopelessness and helplessness, one's qualifications are that much stronger. One belongs. Not all of Pipe City's inhabitants are that way. Some of them have learned that a philosophical attitude helps. One may tinge his philosophy with a drop of irony, even bitterness, and the concrete may seem less hard and the blankets less thin and the mulligan less watery. But it takes a lot of philosophy, you bet, to make concrete either soft or warm!"
"To qualify for citizenship in Pipe City you must be jobless, homeless, hungry, and preferably shoeless, coatless, and hatless. If one also is discouraged, lonely, filled with a terrible feeling of hopelessness and helplessness, one's qualifications are that much stronger." That's crazy!!!!!!!!!!!!
Wednesday, March 12, 2008
5th Grade History, Lesson 13, (From the book)
History LESSON
13! 13! 13! 13! 13!
(From the book)
Monday, November 12, 1773
The Boston Observer
Frightening news update! England has sent three tea ships fully loaded of cargo.
If you have forgotten, tea is the only thing England is taxing! If unloaded, the tax will cost Boston 500 shillings.
Our public leaders and the Sons and Daughters of Liberty, are discussing the looming problem. For now, the plan is to send them ships straight back to England. In the meantime, don’t buy tea!
Monday, November 19, 1773
The Boston Observer
It happened last night! Absurd Mohawk Indians bashed open all of them tea crates, and tossed them into the sea. They left without a trace and damaged nothing but them tea crates.
The church, our public leaders, and our citizens have discussed this. For now, we have decided to keep a close eye on England, they must be mad!
In addition, British Soldiers have begun to roam our streets. I feel a war comin’.
13! 13! 13! 13! 13!
(From the book)
Monday, November 12, 1773
The Boston Observer
Frightening news update! England has sent three tea ships fully loaded of cargo.
If you have forgotten, tea is the only thing England is taxing! If unloaded, the tax will cost Boston 500 shillings.
Our public leaders and the Sons and Daughters of Liberty, are discussing the looming problem. For now, the plan is to send them ships straight back to England. In the meantime, don’t buy tea!
Monday, November 19, 1773
The Boston Observer
It happened last night! Absurd Mohawk Indians bashed open all of them tea crates, and tossed them into the sea. They left without a trace and damaged nothing but them tea crates.
The church, our public leaders, and our citizens have discussed this. For now, we have decided to keep a close eye on England, they must be mad!
In addition, British Soldiers have begun to roam our streets. I feel a war comin’.
Monday, March 10, 2008
Social Studies/History, Week 16
Social Studies Lesson 16
Identify National Parks, Monuments, and Forests; and briefly tell what is found there. Write something about your experiences there if you have ever visited them. Look at a map and determine the distance between two of the above places.
Death Valley National Park is a barren desert near the east border of California. It has a large desert and many forms of microbial life. A wide variety of other life forms also exists in Death Valley. It is trampled with mountain ranges and sedimentary rocks, some of those 1.7 billion years old.
Within the park, there are two major valleys: Death Valley and Panamint Valley, both of which were formed within the last few million years and both bounded by north-south-trending mountain ranges.
Yosemite national park is a place rich with wildlife, plants, and natural structures. With habitats ranging from hill chaparral to expanses of alpine rock, Yosemite National Park supports over 250 species of vertebrates, which include fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals. American Black Bear, Bobcat, Gray Fox, Mule deer, Mountain King snake, Gilbert's Skink, White-headed Woodpecker, Brown Creeper, and Spotted Owl are some of the many vertebrate animals in Yosemite.
Lava Beds National Monument was formed due to prehistoric volcanic eruptions. Its lava tubes were formed when boiling lava made huge tunnels in the ground, which are now coated with glossy lava rock. This is a great place for adventurous cavers, and tourists, but what is most spectacular is the natural beauty of it, such strange ice formations, or a mysterious rock scene.
Identify National Parks, Monuments, and Forests; and briefly tell what is found there. Write something about your experiences there if you have ever visited them. Look at a map and determine the distance between two of the above places.
Death Valley National Park is a barren desert near the east border of California. It has a large desert and many forms of microbial life. A wide variety of other life forms also exists in Death Valley. It is trampled with mountain ranges and sedimentary rocks, some of those 1.7 billion years old.
Within the park, there are two major valleys: Death Valley and Panamint Valley, both of which were formed within the last few million years and both bounded by north-south-trending mountain ranges.
Yosemite national park is a place rich with wildlife, plants, and natural structures. With habitats ranging from hill chaparral to expanses of alpine rock, Yosemite National Park supports over 250 species of vertebrates, which include fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals. American Black Bear, Bobcat, Gray Fox, Mule deer, Mountain King snake, Gilbert's Skink, White-headed Woodpecker, Brown Creeper, and Spotted Owl are some of the many vertebrate animals in Yosemite.
Lava Beds National Monument was formed due to prehistoric volcanic eruptions. Its lava tubes were formed when boiling lava made huge tunnels in the ground, which are now coated with glossy lava rock. This is a great place for adventurous cavers, and tourists, but what is most spectacular is the natural beauty of it, such strange ice formations, or a mysterious rock scene.
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