Tuesday, October 9th, 2012
On Friday, we broke up into groups of two to read the famous poem "The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere." The poem describes Revere's journey to alert the rebel forces of the incoming British soldiers. However, this poem is historically inaccurate. Most of us already knew this, I think. I remembered it from third grade. After reading it, we had to write a poem based on the real events. The poem was hard to write, and Maddie and I only got through three stanzas before we had to leave, and that was more than what those we spoke to got through. If we write poems in the future, especially if they have to be in a certain rhyming format, we should get more time.
Today, after watching a long video about witnesses, we were put into groups of three to read different accounts about the battle of Lexington in the war. This is the battle with the "shot heard 'round the world," which is a rather pretentious title. We were supposed to quickly find the information and copy it down onto sheets, but it was hard to dig through and find the stuff while trying to actually read the document. After that, we split up into three groups of six to share what we wrote. It wasn't a particularly amusing or engaging activity, but effective in showing the unreliability of "eye-witness" accounts.
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