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The Shot Heard Round the World—Lexington & Concord
5 Vocabulary
1. minutemen: a member of a group of American militiamen just before and during the Revolutionary War who held themselves in readiness for instant military service
2. stockpile: to acquire and store a large quantity of something
3. disperse: to drive or send off in various directions
4. musket: a long-barreled muzzle-loading shoulder gun used between the 16th and 18th centuries by infantry soldiers
5. April 19, 1775: Patriots day, the day the Revolutionary War started at Lexington and Concord
5 Sentences
1. "The Shot Heard 'Round the World, was the start of the Revolution, the minutemen were ready on the move."
2. The Redcoats were after the town of Concord's stockpile of ammunitions.
3. America's comeback was to disperse The Redcoats.
4. "Take your musket, take your gun, report to General Washington, come on America we got nothing to lose."
5. The Shot heard 'Round the World was on April 19, 1775.
5 Facts & Details
1. Amos Doolittle painted the North bridge so now we know what it looks like.
2. "Will you let them burn the town down" is one of the famous quote's from The Shot Heard 'Round the World.
3. Paul Revere was captured in Lincoln, a town next to Concord.
4. Samuel Prescott was a doctor.
5. Mr. Sexton worked at the Old North Church, he put the two lanterns up.
5 Questions
1. What were the British troops looking for in Concord? A: the towns stockpile of ammunitions
2. Who were the other midnight riders with Paul Revere? A: Billy Dawes and Samuel Prescott
3. Copy and Paste the poem "The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere" by Longfellow here:
Listen my children and you shall hear
Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere,
On the eighteenth of April, in Seventy-five;
Hardly a man is now alive
Who remembers that famous day and year.
He said to his friend, "If the British march
By land or sea from the town to-night,
Hang a lantern aloft in the belfry arch
Of the North Church tower as a signal light,--
One if by land, and two if by sea;
And I on the opposite shore will be,
Ready to ride and spread the alarm
Through every Middlesex village and farm,
For the country folk to be up and to arm."
Then he said "Good-night!" and with muffled oar
Silently rowed to the Charlestown shore,
Just as the moon rose over the bay,
Where swinging wide at her moorings lay
The Somerset, British man-of-war;
A phantom ship, with each mast and spar
Across the moon like a prison bar,
And a huge black hulk, that was magnified
By its own reflection in the tide.
Meanwhile, his friend through alley and street
Wanders and watches, with eager ears,
Till in the silence around him he hears
The muster of men at the barrack door,
The sound of arms, and the tramp of feet,
And the measured tread of the grenadiers,
Marching down to their boats on the shore.
Then he climbed the tower of the Old North Church,
By the wooden stairs, with stealthy tread,
To the belfry chamber overhead,
And startled the pigeons from their perch
On the sombre rafters, that round him made
Masses and moving shapes of shade,--
By the trembling ladder, steep and tall,
To the highest window in the wall,
Where he paused to listen and look down
A moment on the roofs of the town
And the moonlight flowing over all.
Beneath, in the churchyard, lay the dead,
In their night encampment on the hill,
Wrapped in silence so deep and still
That he could hear, like a sentinel's tread,
The watchful night-wind, as it went
Creeping along from tent to tent,
And seeming to whisper, "All is well!"
A moment only he feels the spell
Of the place and the hour, and the secret dread
Of the lonely belfry and the dead;
For suddenly all his thoughts are bent
On a shadowy something far away,
Where the river widens to meet the bay,--
A line of black that bends and floats
On the rising tide like a bridge of boats.
Meanwhile, impatient to mount and ride,
Booted and spurred, with a heavy stride
On the opposite shore walked Paul Revere.
Now he patted his horse's side,
Now he gazed at the landscape far and near,
Then, impetuous, stamped the earth,
And turned and tightened his saddle girth;
But mostly he watched with eager search
The belfry tower of the Old North Church,
As it rose above the graves on the hill,
Lonely and spectral and sombre and still.
And lo! as he looks, on the belfry's height
A glimmer, and then a gleam of light!
He springs to the saddle, the bridle he turns,
But lingers and gazes, till full on his sight
A second lamp in the belfry burns.
A hurry of hoofs in a village street,
A shape in the moonlight, a bulk in the dark,
And beneath, from the pebbles, in passing, a spark
Struck out by a steed flying fearless and fleet;
That was all! And yet, through the gloom and the light,
The fate of a nation was riding that night;
And the spark struck out by that steed, in his flight,
Kindled the land into flame with its heat.
He has left the village and mounted the steep,
And beneath him, tranquil and broad and deep,
Is the Mystic, meeting the ocean tides;
And under the alders that skirt its edge,
Now soft on the sand, now loud on the ledge,
Is heard the tramp of his steed as he rides.
It was twelve by the village clock
When he crossed the bridge into Medford town.
He heard the crowing of the cock,
And the barking of the farmer's dog,
And felt the damp of the river fog,
That rises after the sun goes down.
It was one by the village clock,
When he galloped into Lexington.
He saw the gilded weathercock
Swim in the moonlight as he passed,
And the meeting-house windows, black and bare,
Gaze at him with a spectral glare,
As if they already stood aghast
At the bloody work they would look upon.
It was two by the village clock,
When he came to the bridge in Concord town.
He heard the bleating of the flock,
And the twitter of birds among the trees,
And felt the breath of the morning breeze
Blowing over the meadow brown.
And one was safe and asleep in his bed
Who at the bridge would be first to fall,
Who that day would be lying dead,
Pierced by a British musket ball.
You know the rest. In the books you have read
How the British Regulars fired and fled,---
How the farmers gave them ball for ball,
From behind each fence and farmyard wall,
Chasing the redcoats down the lane,
Then crossing the fields to emerge again
Under the trees at the turn of the road,
And only pausing to fire and load.
So through the night rode Paul Revere;=
And so through the night went his cry of alarm
To every Middlesex village and farm,---
A cry of defiance, and not of fear,
A voice in the darkness, a knock at the door,
And a word that shall echo for evermore!
For, borne on the night-wind of the Past,
Through all our history, to the last,
In the hour of darkness and peril and need,
The people will waken and listen to hear
The hurrying hoof-beats of that steed,
And the midnight message of Paul Revere.
4. What was the "shot heard round the world"? A: The first shot of the Revolution5. Describe the Battle Road between Lexington and Concord and the Minutemen National Park. A: It was a long road, now paved where the British and Americans fought the whole day, with injuries, deaths, and victories *
5 Math From Fraction Stories Skill 18
1. 5/7 divided by 10/21 = 1 1/2
2. 6 divided by 2/3 = 9
3. 3/10 divided by 18/25 = 5/12
4. 12 divided by ¾ = 16
5. 2/3 divided by 4/9 = 1 ½
Math: 1 page Guinness, 1 page Sylvan
Farm School: Sophie explored the farm and wrote her first Garden Update and worked on her Almanac with Gamma. She also read another chapter of Johnny Tremain and finished her chapter journal.
Garden Update: On May 3rd, 2011, Mom and I went to look at all the gar-den's at "Midden Earth Farm." The first garden we looked at was the veggie garden behind the farm house. Mom said she was going to rototill the soil for the veggie's. Rototilling means you have to turn over
the soil for planting. We then looked at the cold frame gar-dens. They can be planted earlier than the rest because of the glass over them. The berry gardens were doing well, the raspberry's and blackberries are planted and starting to come up, the rhu-barb is doing very well, you can see almost half the stems! The Strawberry Pyramid has survived the winter (brr) the hay has been removed and the plants are leafed out. The
"OP" garden (onion and pep-per) is the newest garden here. The onion sets are going in this weekend and the pep-per plants are coming May 15th. The "AGA" garden (garlic and asparagus) is a year old now. The garlic is doing swell and we're not sure about the asparagus. Asparagus has to wait 3 years before it can be harvested. There is a pear tree back by the "AGA" garden, It got moved from the front orchard
to the back because it was dy-ing. All the leaves turned black and it had no chance of mak-ing it, BUT at Midden Earth farm, everything gets a second chance! So the pear tree grew back in to a good pear tree and we're going to buy it a friend. I named the pear tree, "BOB!"
Reading Journal: Reading Journal Entry
Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes
Chapter Title or pages read:
- What happened in the chapter?
Johnny got kicked out of the Lapham house, he went to go see John Hancock to ask for an apprentice job as a cabin boy. Mister Hancock's assistance kicked him out as soon as he saw his hand. It ended with walking up to the light's house to ask if he could stay with them.
- Were there any words you didn't understand? What were they and how did you learn the definition?
NA
- How did the chapter make you feel?
This chapter made me my adrenalin build up at the end when he started walking towards the Light's house.
- Was there anything in the chapter that relates to what you're learning elsewhere in the unit?
Not really
- What do you think will happen next?
I think the Light's family is going to let Johnny stay with them
Reading: Chapter 3 Revolutionary War for Kids
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