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I'm an 8th grade homeschooler talking about my school experiences.
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Skyscrapers and Bridges
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Today I learned about how some of the tallest buildings in America were only about 6 stories tall. People were only willing to climb that high. Eventually someone invented a the first safe elevator. After that the buildings started going up. In order to make it where the walls didn't callapse they had to make the wall 15 ft thick. Then someone figured out that you could use steel as a frame so from there the buildings started going up.
They were also having trouble building strong bridges. Finally some foud out that you could use steel poles and twist steel together and also use concrete. People were amazed that something so tall and long could hold up trains and even a whole herd of elephants. |
Posted: 4:40 PM, Apr. 27, 2006 |
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To Oz?
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Today I learned about a man named Frank Baum. Baum was married and had five children but he couldn't keep a job. He loved to tell stories to children. He couldn't get passed it. He made up so many stories to tell his children and other children that one day his wife's mother told him he should write and try to get his stories published. He wrote the book The land of oz. At first no one would publish it they thought it was silly and pointless. They didn't think the kids would buy the books. One day a publisher said they would publish it if he paid to have it printed. He did pay and the kids kept buying them and they wanted more stories about it so he kept right on writing. |
Posted: 3:45 PM, Apr. 20, 2006 |
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Andrew Carnegie
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Today I learned about Andrew Carnegie. Carnegie was born in Scotland in 1835. His mother had more of an realist way of thinking and his father had a idealist way of thinking. However, Carnegie happened to inherit both their ways of thinking. His mother was the one that came up with the idea of moving to America. So they did. Carnegie started out with his mothers way of thinking. He got a job at the age of twelve where he was a bobin boy. One day in the paper he saw that someone needed a messenger boy. Soon he learned where everything was in town. He learned the morse code while he had this job. At the age of 17 Carnegie went into the railroad buisness. So far he was doing very well for himself and he was only 33. Carnegie had a goal that by the time he was 35 he was going to use some of the money he had to help others. By the time he was 35 he must have forgotten that goal because he kept right on working. He got into the steel buisness and got quite rich. He owned his own company and someone offered to buy it out. He finally decided that he was going to sell it and decided that he was going to finally start giving his money away. By this time he was so rich he lived in a castle. Before he died he asked someone how much money he had given away. They told him he had given away 324,657,399 dollars. Pretty amazing huh? |
Posted: 3:00 PM, Apr. 19, 2006 |
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DuBois
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Today I learned abount W. E. B. DuBois. DuBois was a black man who wanted blacks to be treated like the white men. He was trying to get equal rights for them in the 20th century. He also worked to help the women to be able to vote. While he was doing this a very little amount of peope agreed with him. DuBois wanted what he thought would be best for all men and women both black and white. |
Posted: 4:00 PM, Apr. 18, 2006 |
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Museum
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There was this really big museum that had all kinds of new ideas. They had the telephone, wahing machine, and a machine that could make other machines go. Tons of people would come to look at the museum. everyone thoght it was grand. |
Posted: 4:00 PM, Mar. 30, 2006 |
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Chinese
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American men did not want to do laundry. They would not do it. Chinese found out that making a building out of wood was cheap. They would build a building. Then they would start a laundry buisness. The women didn't do the laundry though. It was the men. There were few women who came to America. The whites started to catch on and they started to shut down all the chinese run laundry places. How fair is that. The least they could do was do their own laundry. But no. They had to had to shut them down and then go to the white men laundry mats. |
Posted: 1:35 PM, Mar. 24, 2006 |
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Mark Twain
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Today I learned about Mark Twain. I learned that Marks real name is Samuel Langhorn Clemens. Mark Twain was the all famous writer of Tom Sawyer, and Huck Finn. Mark Twain thought that people clould learn from young people. So he wrote Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn. The book that Mark wrote called Life on the Mississippi is said to be the first book ever written in a typewriter. |
Posted: 9:18 AM, Mar. 21, 2006 |
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Mr. Beach
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Mr. Beach is the man who came up with the subway. He didn't have permission do dig the tunnle under broadway so his crew did it at night. The subway made traveling easier above and below ground. |
Posted: 11:20 AM, Mar. 16, 2006 |
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Ewwwwwwwww!
| Today I learned about some of the pollution problems in New York. It was a very disturbing matter. As you was a very large amount of horses in New York at that time. About 100,000 horses. If they were heathy they produce alot amount of waste. Horsedrawn buses and fenn spread out that waste and once the waste dried up it became dust. Whenthe wind blew guess what happened. Yep, thats right they brethed it in. Not only that but they had the coal facories and that also gave off lots of smoke. Pretty nasty huh! |
Posted: 11:15 AM, Mar. 16, 2006 |
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Nez Perce Indians
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Today I learned about Nez Perce. I learned that it was the french that gave them their name. They pronounced it nay pair-SAY. That means pierced nose. The cheif of this tribe kept them going they beat many army unill one day they were completely outnumbered. They declared peace. Since the cheif was a honest man he kept his promise untill the whites started going on their land again. |
Posted: 11:50 AM, Mar. 15, 2006 |
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Indians
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Today I learned about Indians. Indians did not think it was fair for the white men to hunt their buffalo or for them to chase the buffalo to their death over a cliff. WHen many buffalo were killed their stench flowed over the land. Whites kept right on trying to change the Indians. They had special acadamys for them where they would learn to be like white men. There was very little land for the Indians because they were all being runn off of their land. |
Posted: 2:37 PM, Mar. 9, 2006 |
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Failing to Reconstruct
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So far the process of reconstructing America was not going well. Blacks were still not treated equally as they should have. The south did not like working alongside the blacks. Peoplewere starting to make you have to pay to vote. Most blacks did not have a lot of money so they couln't vote. It was coming tho the time of the segregation. Blacks were not allowed in the same restaurants as the whites they couln't even sit in the same seats that the whites were going to use. They had to have their own separate everything. When is all of this going to end? |
Posted: 11:25 AM, Mar. 3, 2006 |
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Impeachment
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Today I learned about President Johnson being almost impeached. Impeachment is when you are allowed to bring to trial federal officials accused of treason, bribery, misdemeanors, and crimes. It was a process where everone was feeling hope and fear. In the end it all worked out and a man Edmund Ross said Not Guilty. That is all I have to say. |
Posted: 10:47 AM, Mar. 2, 2006 |
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The New America
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Today in school I learned about making America better after the Civil War. There was a new president since Abraham Lincoln had died. His name was Andrew Johnson. He was a democrat. He was very different than Lincoln because he did not like to be given advice. He would not listen to the advice that people would give him. But there was a bigger problem. Slaves weren't being made completely free. The south would not help the slaves in their time of need. Northern soldiers had to go and help the former slaves. The Blacks did not have land, or food, or any of the other things they needed to truly become free. There was also still the Ku Klux Klan. They still hated the blacks. They would wear white masks over their faces. They would find blacks and beat them. It was awful. |
Posted: 11:01 AM, Feb. 24, 2006 |
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The Assasination of Lincoln
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Today I learned about the assasination of Abraham Lincoln. Lincoln went to a play at Ford's theater. He almost didn't go because he learned that Grant wasn't going. He decided to make his wife happy and go with her. The President thought the play was funny and was laughing. All of the sudden everyone heard a small boom and saw smoke in the presidents box. Then someone yelled the President has been shot. A small man that was 26 and was an actor jumped onto the stage said a few things in latin and ran off. Lincoln was taken across the street to a small house and that was where he died. John Wilkes Booth got away but not for long. He was found and shot. He thought that the south would be happy with what he had done, but they were not. It turned out that they were not happy. They still saw Lincoln as their President and still grieved for him deeply. |
Posted: 3:30 PM, Feb. 23, 2006 |
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The battle at Gettysburg
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Before the battle actually began the residents would send their stuff to another town so it wouldn't get ruined. When the battle began everyone just knew that they were going to win. The soldiers said their prayers and went off to battle. On the first day the Rebels werre in the lead. But on the second day so many men were killed and both sides thought they had won the battle. The Union was on cemetery hill which was the best position for the battle. The rebels were around that. Lee took his tired men home. Lincoln told Meade to attack Lee. Meade was very cautious and let Lee and his Soldiers get away.Weeks after the battle there were speeches made. Lincoln made one of the speeches. His was only 2min. while Everetts was 2hrs. Lincolns speech was more powerfull than Everetts. When he was done the people did not know what to say. He didn't think anyone would remember what he said but he was wrong. Today that speech is known as the Gettysburg address. |
Posted: 3:45 PM, Feb. 16, 2006 |
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Science
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Today in science I learned about physics. Physics is the base of all sciences. I learned three equations to figure out distance, acceleration, and speed. I learned that velocity is different than speed. Velocity tell you the speed and the direction, and speed only tell you the speed. That almost doesn't make any sense. |
Posted: 3:30 PM, Feb. 16, 2006 |
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Soldiers
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School went very well today. I had a lot of fun.
Today in history I learned about bkack soldiers.Blacks were not allowed to be soldiers during much of the civil war. The Union would not have them because of racial prejudice. Blacks wanted to fight in the war just as much an any of the white men.They wanted the best for America. About a month after Lincoln rad the Emancipation Proclimation blacks were beginning to be let into the army. The whites soon recognized that blacks were every bit as strong as them.
I also learned a little of wwhat soldiers on the move would do. They would cut down trees and fences to build their camps. If they found a farm they would sometimes run the family out and use their furniture to make fire and they would stay in the house to keep warm. |
Posted: 2:30 PM, Feb. 15, 2006 |
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Today in History I Learned...
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Today I learned how the average age of the soldiers was 24. Lots were younger and others were lots older. I learned that they would play one old cat(baseball), tag, marbles and other games as well.I learned about how some of the new modern guns and cannons suach as the breech loading rifle. Abraham Lincoln thought it a very good gun. I also learned about how usually the defenders would win because they would did trenches to protect themselves in.
I also learned about Willie and Tad. They were two of Lincolns children. Tad was the louder more actice one of the bunch. He would play all kinds of games in the White House. He would ring the bell so many times to make the workers run around not knowing what the emergency was of if it was a fire. Willie was quieter but he would help Tad with his plans and play the loud games with him. Lincoln loved both of his children very much. He would often play right along with them making just as much noise as Tad and Willie. Willie died when he was just 12 years old. He died from Typhoid fever. Abe and Mary were very sad and would probably never recover from the hurt they felt from their son dying so young. |
Posted: 2:08 PM, Feb. 10, 2006 |
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Today I Learned...
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So far today has gone very well.
Today I learned about president Jefferson Davis. I learned about Jefferson Davis's early chidhood. Jefferson was born in Kentucky. His parents had ten kids. Their tenth childs name was Jefferson Finis Davis. Finis meaning the end.
I also learned about some the things that could have been done to help stop slave trade. One of those things were Those who beat slaves could have been taken to trial. They never were. |
Posted: 3:07 PM, Feb. 3, 2006 |
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