Tuesday, February 23, 2010

To the Thawing Wind




To the Thawing Wind, by Robert Frost

Come with rain, O loud Southwester!
Bring the singer, bring the nester;
Give the buried flower a dream;
Make the settled snow-bank steam;
Find the brown beneath the white;
But whate'er you do to-night,
Bathe my window, make it flow,
Melt it as the ice will go;
Melt the glass and leave the sticks
Like a hermit's crucifix;
Burst into my narrow stall;
Swing the picture on the wall;
Run the rattling pages o'er;
Scatter poems on the floor;
Turn the poet out of door.

Monday, February 22, 2010

Oral Report: George Washington

He was a leader of the war and after the war they wanted him to be a king, but then they decided that he would be a president.

He lived in Virginia.

He and his brother went fox hunting with the hounds and he spent most of his time with him (when he was young- about 20).

He liked being a farmer. He always wanted to be a farmer.

Monday, February 15, 2010

Oral Report: Patience Wright

She helped the war- to get information to stop the British.

She stuck messages of information in the sculptures and gave them to America.

She married a man that didn't like her art- sculpting with clay and wax.

She died before she got to sculpt [George Washington].

She taught her kids how to do art.

You can learn more about Patience Wright here.

Monday, February 8, 2010

Grace on American History Sem 2: Colonial America, Revolutionary War.

After the Mayflower King George started ruling the new colonies.

Georgia, New York, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Virginia, Delaware, North Carolina, South Carolina

These were listed alone, then identified Maryland and New Jersey on map.

They had to spend extra money on their things like clothing and stuff from King George with huge taxes on those. They didn't get to say what King George did with what he got.

They stuck tea in the water to make King George mad, The Boston Tea Party.

They signed the Declaration of Independence.

They decided they wanted to be their own country so there had to be a war and the war lasted for five years.

After the war King George decided they could be their own country.