Month: November 2016

MS chapter five

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Name: Konrad
Date: 10/2/16
7th Grade Humanities
Making 13 Colonies, Chapter 5 Response

Letter to London Company

After reading Chapter 5, imagine you are John Smith. Write a letter to the London Company reporting on your progress as the new leader of the Jamestown colony. What early obstacles have you faced? What successes have you had? What problems have the London Company presented you with? Please be sure to include your relationship with other English colonists, your relationship with the Indians, and Pocahontas. What do you think it will take to succeed in the new world? Use textual evidence throughout.

Get creative and show what you know from the reading. Also, please use the first person voice. This assignment is due on Tuesday,

Dear friends of the London company,

We have now been here for quite a while, with its beautiful landscapes and exotic animals the new world has proved a stunning sight to behold. It’s beauty only increases in winter, and the people are just as nice. The native people can be very accepting or very aggressive depending on how you act and respond. I have now learnt their language and am able to communicate fully, witch has helped immensely in our trades and attempts to make peace. Although the terrain is outstanding, the creatures that live in these places are not as easy going. Me and my fellow comrades have obtained various injuries, I myself have had many incidents where I have been close to death. My friends now tell the story of how I got stung by a stingray, I think this is how it goes, “While exploring Chesapeake Bay, he was stung by a deadly stingray and was in such agony that he had his grave dug. He recovered and ate the stingray. The place where this happened, near the mouth of the Rappahannock River, is now called Stingray Point”
We have designed and built a successful fort that has lasted since it was built without any addons or fixes, it goes by the name Jamestown. This fort has not yet encountered a full attack from the Spanish or natives but when the day comes I’m sure it will prove worthy. The natives have shown exceptionally fine manners and have been very kind to us. We are making good trades with them in return for food and handy supplies. They are good, fare traders and have not fussed about any of our duties. Work here is slow due to the lack of hands we have, if possible, could the London Company send over a couple more ships with men ready for the labor. We have faced many natural problems but the problem we face that proves hardest is our enemy, the Spanish. Obtaining control over the new world would be twice as easy if the Spanish weren’t here. My request for more fighting men is extremely important if we want to take them down. The natives won’t be a problem because the Spanish have only given the natives aggression so we will have at least one helping hand. I hope you receive this quickly and may respond just as fast.
From your friend and fellow comrade,
John Smith

This is my Letter to the London company where John Smith writes to them in need of many things. I found this a fun paper to do because I could reflect on what they actually had a a problem.

The Giver Essay

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The Giver by Lois Lowery

You have probably never lived in a place where everything is overseen and everything you do is all planned out. You have no choice in what you do as a job and no choice in family. Many things you know and love are changed so that they are part of a forthcoming utopia. The main character of the book, The Giver by Lois Lowery, is Jonas. Jonas starts as an eleven year old boy and turns thirteen at the end of the book. Throughout his life he realizes that he lives in a completely man made and organised world. This leads him to think that everything he knows, and the world he lives in is wrong. He goes throughout his life learning of the past and how the rulers, called the elders, corrected everything to their liking, just to make the community a utopia in their eyes. In Jonas’s community the elders strive for correction and control to make the community a utopia. They do this to stay in power and to prevent rebellion.

Over the many years they have ruled, the elders have always made changes to keep the community perfect, in their eyes, and enable them to stay on top and in command. The elders try to make the community perfect at all costs. They would use all their power just to obtain and rule a true Utopian society according to their view. In this quote it shows how they changed everything for that perfect utopia they pictured, “‘Climate Control. Snow made growing food difficult, limited the agricultural periods. And unpredictable weather made transportation almost impossible at times. It wasn’t a practical thing, so it became obsolete when we went to Sameness.’And hills, too,’ he added.’They made conveyance of goods unwieldy. Trucks; buses. Slowed them down. So—’ He waved his hand, as if a gesture had caused hills to disappear.’Sameness,’ he concluded.’” (Lowery, p. 74).This shows how the Elders must have gone through many years to finally eradicate all things that seemed useless or would get in the way of everyday routines. One of the reasons they make all these changes is to keep their world perfect, but there are many other reasons they do this. They also hope to restrain the people by doing such things.
Over the many years the elders have ruled they have changed lots of things, and also disposed of many things loved by the community, these corrections have kept the community dehumanized but therefor under their jurisdiction . This shows how the elders just want to be in power. In their view, to be in power they have to make the citizens think that everything is being taken care of. To make it like this they have to change many things so that it seems perfect, that way the people won’t ask for change and/or rebel. This quote tells us how organized everything is because if it’s not planned people might start to question how they live and turn to the elders in rebellion. “But Jonas remembered the rules. No medication for anything related to his training,” (Lowery p. 95). Jonas and all other people follow the rules very carefully so they never run into any trouble with the elders, and don’t get released from the community. The elders do a lot of hard work to keep themselves under control and keep the community from rebelling, but there are some things that seem imperfect to them that they still have to correct.

In Jonas’s community the Elders main ambition is to be in power at all times and to make the community a utopia using their ability to annihilate anything they don’t want to be there. They make all the corrections just to prevent the civilians from rebelling. The Elders control things like the local climate, the terrain and many other natural structures. The Elders also expel things like color. Color plays a big part in The Giver, the Elders give much effort to prevent the amount of color in many of the surrounding objects. For there to be a perfect world (In the Elder’s view) there must be no questioning of their right to be in power and no thoughts of rebellion. They do not want the people to have rights that they do not have, and they don’t want anyone to be free.

I liked writing the Giver essay because I got to talk about two to topics and not just one. I found it interesting how I got to relate the two topics because it would make it stronger in so many ways. Although I was ill when we made most of this I gathered ideas while I was in bed.

Value chart

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When I was making the value chart I mainly had to focus on the cross hatching. I had to focus more on the direction of the lines because I would sometimes make the lines go a bit to the side and they would go off the paper. The way I dotted the paper was different because I would always leave a small space between the dots to show how they were dots and that it wasn’t all with one or two strokes.