Sophie's LONG Blog: PBS series "Liberty Kids"
Hi everyone! I just finished watching all of Liberty Kids. I fell in love with this PBS series from the minute I started watching it. The first episode was the Boston Tea Party and it traveled along the exciting, dreadful, and amazing road to freedom. All 40 episodes were inspiring, educational, and fun to watch. I learned about people and heroes of the Revolution mom didn't even know about. Like Phillis Wheatley, the slave poet, Sybil Ludington, the "Girl Paul Revere", James Armistead, the black spy that helped us win, and The Father of our country, The one and only George Washington. I learned a lot from George Washington and idolized him throughout the series. His inspiring speeches, the great plans, and how he wouldn't be king. Now here is the story line of Liberty Kids: James Hiller, an amazing journalist who becomes great friends with some of the heroes of the revolution, Sarah Phillips, also a journalist who becomes an American, Henri LaFare a little French boy always craving for food. Moses, a former slave given freedom by Dr. Benjamin Franklin and takes care of James, Sarah, and Henri especially, Dr. Benjamin Franklin, takes care of the kids and travels to France through half of the series, George Washington, General and commander of the Continental Army the one I idolized through the series, the father of our country, Benedict Arnold, Sarah's idol general, traitor to America by joining the redcoats. They are all friends who journey through the revolution together getting every detail on their piece of paper for the Pennsylvania gazette. Cool huh, makes you want to watch it huh? Here's a cool site I just found where I can do "All things Liberty Kids!" woohoo! http://www.libertyskids.com/fungames.html .
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- Almanac HW: Write a short explanation of sustainable family farm: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sustainable living
Sustainable Living is a way of living green by using less electronics. On a farm it means to re-use products such as horse or cow manure to put in the compost or feed to the chickens to make fertilizer. Sustainable living moves around in a circle, like the circle of live. (But in this case, the circle of manure!) After you feed it to the chickens it becomes fertilizer as I explained before. The fertilizer becomes veggies that we eat, and leftovers that we eat goes to the pigs or horses making a circle.
Math: 1 page Guinness, 1 page Sylvan
Phyllis Wheatley and Slavery during American Revolution Webquest
A: List 5 facts/details you learned:
1. Phyllis had interest in being a Christian.
2. When she was released from slavery her life was worse.
3. Phyllis wrote poems about slavery.
4. Phyllis was a Family Slave.
5. Phyllis got brought here on the ship, "The Phyllis" that's how she got her name.
A: Summarize the video: This video was nice and I learned a lot. It told how Phyllis' life went and how she was treated as a slave. She wrote poems about religion, war, birth, and death, and she was the first African American to publish a book, and the first to be set free by her writing. She inspired other colored people to write poetry.
B: Find three images of Phyllis Wheatley and cope & paste here:
A: Describe the video: it was a video of a girl who read the poem, "On Virtue" by Phyllis Wheatley
B: Find the poem by Phyllis Wheatley and copy & paste here:
O Thou bright jewel in my aim I strive
To comprehend thee. Thine own words declare
Wisdom is higher than a fool can reach.
I cease to wonder, and no more attempt
Thine height t' explore, or fathom thy profound.
But, O my soul, sink not into despair,
Virtue is near thee, and with gentle hand
Would now embrace thee, hovers o'er thine head.
Fain would the heav'n-born soul with her converse,
Then seek, then court her for her promis'd bliss.
Auspicious queen, thine heav'nly pinions spread,
And lead celestial Chastity along;
Lo! now her sacred retinue descends,
Array'd in glory from the orbs above.
Attend me, Virtue, thro' my youthful years!
O leave me not to the false joys of time!
But guide my steps to endless life and bliss.
Greatness, or Goodness, say what I shall call thee,
To give me an higher appellation still,
Teach me a better strain, a nobler lay,
O thou, enthron'd with Cherubs in the realms of day.
- Question: How did Phyllis Wheatley meet George Washington?
Answer: http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_did_George_Washington_meet_phillis_wheatley
A: Summarize the answer here:
She was a strong supporter of Independence; therefore, it would only make sense that she would meet George Washington. In fact, he invited her to meet him. After the meeting she wrote him a poem entitled... "To His Excellency General Washington."
Read more: http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_did_George_Washington_meet_phillis_wheatley#ixzz1NBnRRbMV
A: What did you learn from this video? Summarize in a 5 sentence paragraph: I learned that salve Mothers and daughters were usually kept together and the Father and son were usually sold to other plantations. The well established plantations had a better chance of keeping Slave Families together. White men who supported slavery were called Abolitionists and they were usually in the North.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OlLzeCQ_ZdM&feature=related
A: What did you think about this video? It is very nice and I love the way that it teaches you in a rhyming and sad way
B: Can you find the written poem on-line and copy & paste here: LISTEN, little children, all, Listen to our earnest call: You are very young, 'tis true, But there's much that you can do. Even you can plead with men That they buy not slaves again, And that those they have may be Quickly set at liberty.[
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