Month: November 2016

Name: Miles Sept. 2016

Making Thirteen Colonies Homework

Directions: Read chapter 2 in Making Thirteen Colonies. Answer the following questions below. Use complete sentences. The following assignment is due on Friday, September 16th.

Notes:

• They said Virginia was rich but they were wrong

Questions:

1. What are the characteristics of the “gentlemen” as described in this reading? (Please be detailed in your description). How do they differ from “younkers?”

Notes:

• A gentlemen is a rich person who lived off their families money and had servants and did not do work.

• A Yonker is a an orphan or a poor person and they did all the work on the boat

• I predict the Yonkers will do better in America than the gentleman

• The gentlemen are used to everything being easy.

Gentlemen were people who inherited a lot of money from their families. Also gentleman were among the first people to travel and colonize in America. The gentlemen expected America to be magical, fancy, and clean, and that is why when they got on the boat they wore their nicest clothes. I also think they wore their nicest clothes because they wanted to make a great first impression on the natives. The other people that came with the gentlemen were the Yonkers. younkers where orphans or very poor people that went on the journey to America with the gentlemen. The younkers where also the servants of the gentlemen. They were brought on the trip because they were the only ones who knew how to work the ship. “If a younker fell into the ocean and was lost- well, too bad, (Hakim, pg.19). This quote shows that the gentlemen did not care about the Yonkers. They were only seen as servants.  

2.   Take a closer look at the picture of page all men are rich p19 and the caption that accompanies it. How are people in London imagining the New World based on what this picture shows? Be specific and be sure to reference the picture

• In the picture on page 19 I see the natives hunting deer and starting fires and eating and relaxing.
• I believe that this is how the people from Europe thought of the natives.
• In the front of the picture it looks like paradise and in the back I think the natives are hunting
• hI think the fire is to scare away animals to keep their crops
• the British people are portraying the natives as animals
• They are saying they are savages by showing them as animals
• the British think the people in the picture are mythical creature not humans.
• this image is important because the person who drew this is saying that this is untouched land and their is magic mythical creatures animals and wealth.
• The British are advertising that their is land that is easy to take from the natives.

The British made this picture of what they believed America was going to be like. In the front of the picture I see mythical creatures, a big deer, and lots of vegetation. I think the Europeans believed that the mythical creatures represented a place that was like a paradise. I think the big deer represents a wealth of food and animals. The vegetation represents the fresh produce everywhere. In the back of the picture I notice there is lots of chaos. I see arrows flying, big burst of fire, and dying deer. The back of the picture represents how some people believe that the natives are savages. I believe that their are two different perspectives of the natives in the picture. The first perspective of the natives I think is in the front of the picture, where the natives are relaxing and growing crops. The second perspective of the natives is in the back where there’s chaos and killing.

3.   How well prepared would you say this group of men and boys was for the challenges of a new and unfamiliar land? Do you predict success or failure for this company’s colonizing attempts at this point? Why? Be sure to use textual evidence and analysis.

Notes:

• I predict the Yonkers will do better in America than the gentleman

I think the gentlemen were unprepared for the trip. I would predict failure for the gentlemen in colonizing America. I think the Gentleman had no idea what they were in for. Gentlemen “had no time for adventure; they hoped to find riches,” (hakim, pg. 18). I think the Gentlemen were not expecting the trip to America to have peril. They were not going to discover America, they were going to get rich. I also think the gentlemen were not prepared to handle the Natives in America. If I were a younker, when arriving in America, I would have gathered a group of younkers and left the gentlemen to discover America on our own. In fact, I think the younkers where more prepared than the gentlemen for the journey. I think the younkers were more likely to succeed in America then the gentlemen because they knew how to sail, build, and hunt, which the gentlemen did not.

 

 

I think this is my best making thirteen colonies because I have a lot of class notes and I think I have good TEEAC paragraphs. In this making thirteen colonies I learned about how the English thought of the Natives. I think this was important because this was the firs stereotyping ever. The only thing I needed to work on was grammar.

I really enjoyed this project because it was fun that we got to share how to make a successful ecosystem by teaching the class our game. Most of the games had to do with how to keep species alive in the ecosystem which sounds easy but it is very hard. I very proud of this project because my group was stuck at one point and then we persevered and made a good game to represent the ecosystem. I learned in this project that  there is a lot of problem with the ecosystem.

 

 

 

I really enjoyed the meal muir web. I enjoyed it a lot because it made me aware of what I eat and what is important to eat to stay healthy. I learned in this project like I said before that it is important to eat healthy and the things that is going into your food may not always be good for. This is why I enjoyed this project.

Notecards

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Surgery in the Military

Source:

Tannenbaum, Rebecca J. “Health and Medicine in the 17th Century.” American Centuries , vol. 2, Facts on File, 2014. American History , online.infobase.com/hrc/search/details/358046?q=colonial surgery.

Quote:

“Many surgeons learned their skill in the military and continued to practice after their discharge. They set broken bones, removed cataracts, and amputated diseased or injured limbs. Surgeons made up another category of trained healer. Surgery and medicine were considered separate fields, although the lines were beginning to blur and would eventually disappear altogether. Medicine, or “physick,” was an intellectual, gentleman’s skill; surgery was a manual trade, and thus had lower status. Many surgeons learned their skill in the military and continued to practice after their discharge. They set broken bones, removed cataracts, and amputated diseased or injured limbs.” 

 

 

Paraphrase:

Surgeons in the colonial period learned how to do surgery on the battlefield. Some of the things the surgeons learned during war were how to set broken bones, get rid of cataracts, and amputations of limbs. Surgeons made a new category of trained healer. Surgery and medicine were considered different jobs but overtime they became the same. Physicks’s was a rich mans skill; Surgery was for poor men and they had lower status. Surgeons learned their skill in the military and they continued to do surgery after the war. The surgeon’s set broken bones, removed cataracts, and amputated diseased or injured limbs.

My Ideas:

This quote shows that a lot of the surgeons learned their techniques from the battlefield. The surgeons on the battlefields saw broken bones, gun wounds, infections, severed limbs, and disease. Surgery was a gentleman’s job and never a woman’s job. In the early times of colonial America surgery and medicine were complete opposites, but later on they became one and the same. The surgeons started out as focusing only on physical aspects of medicine. The physicians focused on medicines and bleedings. I wonder what bleedings are? I think bleedings are when you test someone’s blood to see if there are any problems. Some of the colonial  physicians had a lot in common with the medieval doctors. While the surgeons and physicians started out having very different responsibilities over time there jobs became more similar. Surgeons had a lot lower status  because surgery was a manual trade. Physicians however, were thought of as a skilled trade and learned there job by apprenticeship. This gave the physicians hire status than the surgeons. Since surgeons and physicians did not get paid well they would often switch their trade to farming or school teaching. I can infer that surgeons did surgery because they had a passion for helping people. I can also infer that the surgeons went into surgery knowing that they would not make a lot of money.  

History:

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This is one of my notecards, it is about surgery in the military. My topic for the colonial museum is surgery. I think this is my best notecard because it has a good analysis and in general a good theme of the notecard. I learned a lot of interesting things in this notecard. For example most surgeons learned their skill in the army.

Miles Friedman

10/14/16

How the Elders Have Power

Imagine a community where there is no difference and the leaders use sameness to have and maintain power. This is what the community is like in The Giver by Lois Lowry. Jonas is a twelve year old boy who lives an ordinary life until he becomes the Receiver of Memory. He receives this job at the Ceremony of the Twelves where all children that are twelve receive a job in the community. Jonas receives his training from the Giver who is the previous receiver of memory. During Jonas’s training with The Giver, he realizes that there is a lot more to his community than he previously knew. The Elders are the leaders of the community, and they are hiding information about life from the whole town, including information about the outside world. The Elders used many tools to keep its citizens in order and maintain a utopia. Two ways they did this are by making complete sameness in the community, and getting rid of all the difference they can find.

One of the tools used by the Elders to maintain order was sameness. Jonas understands that the rules of the community are very strict and straightforward. Most of the rules are about sameness. For example, children are raised the same, everyone wears the same cloths, and the whole society dresses the same. In Jonas’s community it is considered rude and uncomfortable to talk about difference. At one point Jonas says, “Always better, less rude, to talk about things that were the same,” (Lowry p. 38). This quote shows that it is rude to point out differences in people. This quote also shows that it is very uncomfortable to talk about difference. It can be uncomfortable to talk about differences because it is recognized as a terrible thing. It is recognized as a terrible thing because difference is supposed to be eliminated in Jonas’s community. Jonas’s community has almost forgotten what difference is. Although Jonas’s community strives for sameness there is still some difference in it. Jonas’s community has lost so much by removing differences.

Another means of maintaining a utopia for the elders was eliminating difference. In eliminating difference, Jonas’s community has become bland. Without differences Jonas’s community has lost individuality, the positive, unexpected aspects of life, and all color. Because of the lack of difference, Jonas’s community is predictable and boring. One way that it is predictable and boring is that they do not even have differences in color. One day the Giver explained this to Jonas, “‘We relinquished color when we relinquish sunshine and did away with differences.’ He thought for a moment. ‘We gained control of many things. But we had to let go of others,’” (Lowry, p. 82). This quote shows that Jonas is learning the story of his community and how the Elders made choices about what they believed was best for their community. Although the Elders believe they made the right choices, their choices led to losing good things. The decision to take away difference led to power for the Elders. No one in the community knows how to make a choice for themselves and the people have to look to the Elders for choices. The Elders want to keep the people in the community powerless by removing differences in the community.

The Elders’ goal of this community is to be in control of everything. They also do this by keeping everything absolutely the same and eliminating all difference and wrongs in the community that  people could use to question their authority. Pointing out any differences is considered rude or damaging because it takes away from the Elders’ power.  Individuals are not allowed to make choices, leaving the Elders to become almost like dictators of the mind. This power almost makes the Elders radical. In this book, Lowry shows us that sameness may look a good choice, but it actually can lead to even bigger problems for the community. People become almost robotic followers of the rules. The people become easier to control and the Elders’ power gets considerably bigger. This is why it is important in a community to allow for different voices to be heard and a true democracy can flourish. People can learn to think for themselves as thoughtful human beings. This kind of leadership is what a dictatorship is. 

 

This is my Giver Essay. We spent about a month on it and I am very proud of it. I am proud of it because I worked very hard on it. I also feel proud of it because I got stuck a couple of times and I got through it also I got good grades.