Colonial+America



Be the Critic!!! - 9/20/10 Did these students get their facts correct? Where would you improve their work? Why? - These students didn't really get their facts right because based on what we learned in class, the navigation acts wasn't broken because King James the second realized the thoughts of the Colonists. It was broken due to a rivalry between the England and the Colonies themselves. The Colonists broke free on their own since it's their business, not England's. I would improve their work on what the reason of how the navigation acts were actually gone because it doesn't seem right that a King would abandon his throne after hearing the opinions of the Colonists. The students should really look up some facts about what really happened just to make sure the statement is true because as we learned in class, these books are written in a different point of view.
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__Slavery in America - 9/21/1__ //"Tobacco was the most valuable export in Virginia, Maryland, and North Carolina."// __CCQ's__ 1. Connection - Tobacco is still pretty popular today including other drugs. 2. Question - Was there ever a time that the slaves revolted against England because of this? I'm asking this since as said in the video, there's over 200,000 black slaves that were imported into the country by 1750. 3. Comment - People who smoke tobacco annoy me because I strongly hate the smell of it. __Main Idea__ Due to tobacco's popularity, people imported more slaves to increase the amount of it.

__Do Now - 9/22/10__ //Northern Colonies// __Main Idea__ - The Northern colonies traded many crops and hand-made items to make money. //Southern Colonies// __Main Idea__ - The Southern colonies made indigo and cotton to make money. //The colonies traded the crops that they farmed such as cash crops.// //The colonies traded to other regions across the ocean using ships as their transportation and they also built them.//

**__Homework -__ Triangular trade //- 9/22/10//** __Main Idea -__ The Triangular Trade is a trade between three regions which is West Africa, New England, and Europe. They imported and exported goods and slaves.

[|anhxdam] After reading your responses I notice that overall, it was from their point of view. I'm not rooting for sides but it sounds like the girls were just reading from a book throughout the whole video. [|anhxdam] yea thats what i meant (: //(I was talking about how the girls in the video should've told their POV on the Navigation Acts rather than reading straight from the book.)// [|anhxdam] These students didn't really get their facts right because based on what we learned in class, the Navigation Acts wasn't broken because King James the second realized the thoughts of the Colonists. It was broken due to a rivalry between the England and the Colonies themselves. The Colonists broke free on their own since it's their business, not England's. I would improve their work on what the reason of how the navigation acts were actually gone because it doesn't seem right that a King would abandon his throne after hearing the opinions of the Colonists. The students should really look up some facts about what really happened just to make sure the statement is true because as we learned in class, these books are written in a different point of view. [|anhxdam] I agree with julie, and obviously probably everyone were biased at some point in their lives so its not possible to actually be unbiased.
 * re: That video was really.. really biased**
 * re: That video was really.. really biased**
 * re: Your responses to last night's video**
 * re: That video was really.. really biased**


 * __Homework:__ Slavery - 9/23/10**

media type="custom" key="6999323" //**Why do you think colonists felt the need to use slave labor? How would you convince someone who is a slave owner to give up their slaves? Remember many people who owned slaves did not like the practice, but felt like they HAD to have slaves...how do you convince them otherwise?**//

I chose the images in the video to answer the questions above because they showed a powerful meaning. The pictures that represented slaves on a ship, immediately I thought of trading. For the images that showed a child, I thought it would somehow appeal to the owner's emotions and hopefully that convinced them to release their slaves. In my opinion, I thought that all the pictures in the video were reaching out to me. It represented sympathy, guilt, and maybe even fear to everyone that watches it. Maybe it gave the owner's a clue of what a slave's life is like.

__**Do Now - 9/24/10**__ //Does this change your opinion of what Olaudah Equiano// //said and should it?// - This should change my opinion of what he said because it wasn't really him. If this was a lie, it's not funny. If someone made this all up then i just want to hurt that person because its not something that you should lie about, its serious. If he was never on that boat then its just messed up.

//Summary// - Olaudah Equiano taught himself how to write by memorizing every word that his master read's to him from the Bible and he then bought himself. He got the money by saving up money by working for masters and freed himself. He then becomes rich later on by selling slaves and buying them although he used to be one himself.

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