In the beggining of the year, the class had to write a post about what they would do if they could be a teacher for a day. At that time I answered, “ I wouldn’t be so strict and I’d be more understanding of what students are going throught.” I still stick by what i said before, but i have more to add. If i was a teacher, I wouldn’t judge anybody. Sure it’s okay to have an opinion of a person, but i feel teachers don’t just have an opinion, they make it clear whether they do or don’t like you. If  I’m ever a teacher, i would strictly grade my students on how well they are doing in my class, not who they hang out with or whether they talk in class. If a student wants to talk and another does too, it’s their choice, not the teachers. As long as it’s quitely I would allow it. I feel now thought, the thing teachers do the most, is judge. Children are not in school for advice about who they should or shouldn’t hang out with. If somebody wants to hang out with somebody, they will! I feel now, if a teacher doesn’t like one person that someone hangs out with, they automanically “dumb-down” anyone that hangs out with the person that’s not liked. I feel this is wrong on the teachers part and they should strictly focus on the work.

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If I wrote the section “Perry’s Victory” in my history book i would have definatly elaborated more on the challenges Oliver Perry faced during battle. The book just states, that “the battle lasted for more than three hours and resulted in heavy casualities for both sides.” After looking into some of the troubles Oliver Perry went through i found out that things started going wrong even before he set off, which the book didn’t mention. Before he set off to war, Perry found out there was a shortage in supplies and men. During the war, some heavy casualties were, on the British ships, most of the senior officers were wounded or killed. I think that the book should have written more detail about the war because without it, the reader can’t really understand what the people were going through. 

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After researching women from the 1800s i found one and I knew that was the one i wanted to write about. The womens name is Old Elizabeth. After reading her story she became an insperation to me. This women was African American and was born in 1766, which was a time when slavery was still used…ALOT! As a young child she was born into slavery. How would that feel, being born and having absolutly no control of what you can do woth your life. Luckly she got to live with her parents..until she was..eleven. Can you imagine being seperated from your parents when your eleven?! She was sold to another owner, and that owner lives several miles away from where her parents were working as slaves. Old Elizabeth asked her owner if she could go and visit her mother because she hasn’t seen her in a long time. her owner replied with “no”. Old Elizabeth went to see her mother anyways, against the word of her owner. She set off and walked 20 miles to see her mother! After saying with her mother for several days she set back to her owner. As she returned, her owner wasnt pleased with her, so he tied her to a rope and lashed her. A few months after she was lashed she moved back to her mothers farm, where she was sold again to her 4th owner. This man didn’t believe in slavery, so at the age of 13 she was set free and was never a slave again. Olf Elizebeth was very religious so after she was set free she went to religious ceremonies and she listened to people speak. After listening to other people speak about religion, she finally got the courage to go up and talk herself, when she was 43. She has inspired many people of the stories she told about slavery, and i feel that everyone that has delt with it has been a part of our history. Old Elizabeth died when she was 101, in 1866. One of the last things she had done was write an autobiography named Memoir of Old Elizabeth, a Coloured Woman,  about her life, as a slave and getting out of slavery. She was 87 when she wrote the book. I wrote about Old Elizaebth becauseshe definatly inspired me, with all of the things she went through, and how she delt with them. In my eyes Old Elizabeth, is a hero! 

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