This Once Was Mine

This Once Was Mine
Jake Black Ruskin

Friday, April 25, 2014

American Revolutionary War Techniques

What were the "techniques" the colonists used to start a revolution between 1763 and 1776. Do you think the colonists could have achieved Independence with out these techniques?

 The Sons of Liberty. We got together as an organized group and made a vow to refrain from doing business with the British. The reason they did it is because we didn't agree with the British rights and laws. We don't agree with the British we want our rights. 



Then there is the taxes. The sugar act, the British lowered the taxes but made more. So we got mad rampaged and the British got mad back. Declaratory act since we should make taxes ourselves and then they got mad.

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 The Boston Massacre and the Boston Tea Party. We rampaged because of them and they defended themselves. for the Boston Tea Party we dressed up as the Mohawk tribe and threw 342 chests of tea into the Boston Harbor. We do think the colonists could have achieved Independence without these 2 techniques but not without all the techniques they did.

                                   
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Thursday, April 3, 2014

Math Night

   As you might know math night was a short while ago. Maybe you were there and saw what 5th grade did. At math night we did a fruit salad equation. You might not know what that is. The had to take fruit and they had to equal 16/16 of 1 whole. We also did a game on the whiteboard sadly I don't know what it was called or what you had to do. Three in a row was a game too. You had to make fractions equal. The blue group did something totally different. I was in blue group. We had to make graphs to see which style of plane went furthest. We threw the plane and measure the feet it flew.




   




   There was nothing I didn't like. There was a lot of different things you could do. Like, golf, build a crane etcetera. The only thing that made math night better is that I won a prize.