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Textbooks are big and they may seem to you that they have a lot of material in it, but it really doesn’t at all. 

First I will give the details about Tecumseh that the textbook gives.

-He was one of the most talented Indian leaders.

-He was a Shawnee chief, a skilled warrior, and a brilliant speaker.

-He warned other tribes about dangers they would face from settlers.

-He wanted to make the American Indians, the South, and the eastern Mississippi Valley into a single confederation to oppose the American settlers.

-Him and his brother united these groups and gathered followers.

-He was thought of as a serious threat by governor William Henry Harrison.

-Tecumseh told Harrison about how the Indians were angry about the treaty.

-Tecumseh believed that the whites didn’t deserve to to take land from the Indians because they had it first.

-Harrison told Tecumseh not to resist the power of the United States.

Internet facts on Tecumseh.

-Born in March 1768 in Ohio, and died on October 5, 1813.

-Tecumseh fought against the United States in both the Tecumseh’s War and the War of 1812.

-Tecumseh told governor Harrison that he wanted to take back the treaty because the Indian’s had the land before the Americans came.

-He went to the South to try to unite the Native American tribes. 

 -Tecumseh warned his brother not to fight against the Americans, but Tenskwatawa didn’t listen and got beat in the Battle of Tippecanoe.

-Tecumseh and the British went to Canada and worked together to capture Fort Detroit.

-The Americans invaded Canada and killed Tecumseh during the Battle of the Thames.

Tecumseh became a hero and was remembered by Canada for his defense of the country.

I would say that the textbook does an average job of telling about Tecumseh, but the website that I found gave more details on his life.  If I was the editor of the textbook, I would have included a better description of how his brother didn’t listen to him, why he went to the South, and how he got killed.  I would also use pictures with captions to describe the information better to make it more interesting.  I would have changed the fact that they didn’t give many details on how Tecumseh and his brother died.

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I would have included this picture to show how Tecumseh died.

In the 19th century women wore chemise’s, which is a one piece undergarment.  They also wore a corset, which is a stiffened undergarment worn for support of the hips or waist.  It can can also be worn to give shape.  They also wore petticoats which is a skirt that goes under a dress.  The last undergarment they wore were called pantalettes.  These were long, they went past the knee and was decorated with tucks and flounces, and made from silk or linen.  Hoop skirts were popular to wear during this time.  Some hoop skirts were made of steel wire.  You wouldn’t just wear the hoop skirt, on top of it you would wear a petticoat.  After putting on all the undergarments she would put on her dress, so as you can see women at this time would wear many layers.  After the dress is on she would put on her gloves and bonnet.  Young girls at this time were allowed to wear clothes that came a little below their knee, but as they got older they would have to wear dresses down to their feet.  Most women at this time wished to wear color plates.  Women at this time liked to look skinner then they really were, so they wore corsets, but these squeezed their organs too tight and caused birth problems for some ladies, digestive problems for others, and death for some.  When someone died, ladies would wear all black.

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As I see it, Martin Luther King is a great example of a leader.  He was brave, intelligent, and confident.

He was a brave man because he had the power to lead marches against segregation, and he didn’t back down when he got arrested for it.  He was also a leader of a bus boycott. 

Martin Luther King was very intelligent because he went to college mostly before everyone else.  He went when he was only 15 when he started college!  He also skipped a few grades during his younger school years, which got him into college faster.

He was a confident man because he believed in himself when he gave his famous speech, and he didn’t care if he got killed by saying it, all he wanted was to change everyone’s perspective on how white and blacks get treated.  He knew that the color of your skin shouldn’t change the way you get treated, he wanted everyone to live a fair life.

The question is: Do great leaders make history? Or does history makes great leaders?

I believe that history makes great leaders.  I’m on this side because if it wasn’t the problems that were held in the past then there would be no leaders today.  For example, if whites didn’t get treated better than blacks did back then, then Martin Luther King would be just some guy who lived back in the past to us today, since this problem from history. Martin Luther King was made a leader.

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For about the past week in social studies we have been working on turning historical facts into an interesting story and finding a significant object from back then and selling it for money to give to charity for kids in Mali.  For this project, my group and I have to work together and turn boring facts about Thomas Jefferson’s inauguration into an interesting story that will sell the significant object that went along with it.  The most challenging part about this project is that we have to memorize our WHOLE story in only a few days! Another challenge for this project is turning the boring facts into an interesting story.  Some things that can be changed is that we should be able to have note cards to remind us what we need to talk about while we are presenting because probably every group will forget at least one important detail.  What I learned by doing this is that you can make anything boring into something interesting!  I think this project should be done in the future because it is a good way for students to learn historical facts in a fun way, but it should be done a little differently by us not having to memorize the whole thing.

Leaders are people who are confident in themselves and always willing to help people out and tell them what to do if they need help, they are not scared to give their opinion on things, and they are outgoing.   Most people are born leaders, when as soon as they turn the age of around 7, when they can discover rights from wrongs, they are already trying to help others and doing things independently.  You can not be made into a leader because you are born one, period.  Some people just realize their confidence in themselves later than others.  In basketball when I do play varsity I am NEVER a leader, I always follow what the captains say to do.  Anyone can be a leader if they realizethat they believe in themselves.  I am an on and off leader, I try to lead when i KNOW that I can do something and not mess up, but if I know that I am going to fail at something then I’ll be a follower.  When I am a leader, my strongest abilities are that I can get people excited because I am always a happy person so by me being always outgoing other people follow that.  At the times when I am NOT a leader, things holding me back are that I don’t believe in myself and I should start believing in myself more for certain things.

If you look at this object it’s probably not significant to you at all, you probably don’t even know what it is.  Well it is a hair highlighter and you run the brush through your hair and blond streaks go into your hair.  Even though it is not significant to anyone it is very important to me.  The day i got this hair highlighting brush was the first day that me and my best friend hung out.  The first day my friend Becca came over we went to the store and decided to buy it, and when we got back to my house for the night we had so much fun with something so valueless.  We put it all in each other’s hair and made each other’s hair a golden color and it wouldn’t come out for about two days!  There was a lot more fun that Becca and I had with this object.  Ever since that day I knew that we would be friends forever and it ends up that she is my best friend and ever since that day we have the most fun with each other and a small valueless hairlighting brush is a symbol that I remember of my best friend!

Scientists are predicting that the world is going to end on December 21, 2012.  I totally disagree with this statement because the world is going too last for billions of more years until to sun dies out, its not just going to end in about 2 years.  The scientists think that the world is going to end on this day because the Mayan calendar predicts that the world will end then, but rumors have it that people are saying that the people who make the calendars stopped making them after 2012 so it’s going around the world that the world is going to end.  Although I and many others believe that the world is not going to end on this day, there are many who are terrified of this day thinking that the world is going to end by earthquakes, volcanoes, hurricanes, tsunamis, cracks in the ground, and many other natural disasters, just like what happened in the movie 2012.  Since there are people on both sides of the argument, no one really knows when the world will really end, so on this day everyone will see for theirselves what’s happening to the world.  Until this happens all the rumors should stop because no one knows what exactly is going to happen.

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I’m going to compare and contrast the USS Constellation ship to a modern US Navy ship today, called the USS Port Royal. 

The USS Constellation ship was constructed in 1854.  It is a sloop-of-war(a warship), and it was the second US Navy Ship to be called this famous name.  The USS Constellation was one of the last sail-only warships the be built by the US Navy.  This was the first Navy Ship to set sail, and it was the first ship to destroy an enemy ship.  It is 164 feet, and it weighed 1265 tons.  It had 28 long guns and 20 cannons. 

The USS Port Royal is a lot longer and bigger than the USS Constellation ship, it is 567 feet and 9600 tons.  This ship has many automatic turrets, automatic cannons and torpedo launchers.  This ship was launched on November 20th 1992.  This ship has many sensors, lasers, and weapons, a lot more than the USS Constellation ship.  As you can see, ships have increased over the years.  The USS Port Royal has a lot more than the USS Constellation ship, and it is WAY bigger!

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This is the USS Port Royal.

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This is the USS Constellation ship.

Is it really true that George Washington cut down his father’s cherry tree?  No, this is not true.  It was all a myth.  This myth is that George Washington cut down his father’s favorite cherry tree and when his dad asked him if he cut it down his famous words were “I cannot tell a lie, father, you know I cannot tell a lie! I did cut it with my little hatchet.”  People made this story up because it was a way that George Washington would gain his trust with people.  Authors thought that if they made this up that everyone would know that George Washington is not a liar and that he is trustworthy.  Yes, George Washington is trustworthy but the whole myth about him cutting down his father’s cherry tree and Washington admitting that he actually did was all a lie.  I think that people should know that the truth is George Washington is a trustful man, but he did NOT cut down his father’s cherry tree.  My proof that i know this is that in class Mr. Bogush told us that he is trustworthy and that authors only made up this myth so people would know that he is trustworthy.

What would happen if the sun burned out?  If the sun burned out  then the world would be cold and all darkness.  Also, there would be no animals, no plants, no humans, and everything would freeze, including the air.  If there are no people then there would be no reason for the world to be here because there would just be all open space and it would be useless.  The whole planet would turn into a black hole.

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This is what the world would look like with no sun.