Saints & Sinners is an extension of my Advanced US History class. This blog is a place for civil discourse, critical thinking and new ideas. The goal of these entries is to challenge your current viewpoint and encourage the development of logical arguments.
Monday, December 8, 2014
Semester In Review: Most Interesting...
For the end of the semester blog, make me a Top 10 List of the most interesting things you learned this year, so far, about US History. They could be from anything we did in class, anything you've read from the blog, any video we saw etc.
(In order of favoritism) 1. The most interesting thing I enjoyed this semester was finding out that Paul Revere wasn't the man who rode around alerting people that the British were coming. The other thing that surprised me was that "The British are coming!" weren't even the words used! 2. Okay, acting out the things we were learning in history was really fun. Something about seeing the context in action allowed us to get the feel of what the event really was like. 3. It was fun creating our own settlement with that website you found! Too bad we didn't get to choose all the worse options as a class! But I learned from this that there were many decisions to take into consideration when Jamestown was being formed. 4. "The Story of Us" was AMAZE! I'm still getting over the fact how amazing the clothing was. IT ALL LOOKED SO REAL! It really kept my attention and helped with the material. What I didn't know was that women were spies, too. 5. I loved watching "Liberty Kids" to answer our blog on Valley Forge! That show rocks! Too bad I don't watch it as often anymore. The blog helped me remember those "days". I didn't know that Benjamin Franklin recommended Fredrick Von Stueben until watching that episode. 6. Mr. Haston, where do you find all those books that tell us the side stories that supported the big picture in history? Those are too fun to read. 7. The blog where we had to write a letter in the perspective of De Vaca was interesting, so I give it a "7". 8. Learning the truth about Christopher Columbus and how he treated the Native Americans…STILL MIND-BLOWING 9. I liked reading about someone from history, in my case Olaudah Equiano, because it helped me get in depth of how much different life was back then compared to now. Times have really changed. 10. The Crash Corse videos were fun! They really helped us take a good first-look at the material. They were pretty interesting! (343)
(Not really in a particular order) 1. I really liked watching the John Greene videos! I really liked the one about the French Indian War 2. I like learning about the colonies! It was interesting to figure out which colony was kind of famous for each thing! 3. I loved learning about the Revolutionary War! It was so cool to me knowing that women spied, and was sometimes even a soldier! 4. I also liked learning about the winter at Valley Forge. It was interesting to me to know that even though some soldiers left, some were dedicated and fought through the cold! 5. Another thing I thought was fun was when we acted out some of the things we were learning about. It was so fun to see how the rest of my classmates and I would talk and act! 6. Something else I liked that we watched was that movie… I think it was something like “The Story of Us” I can’t remember what it was called but I really liked it! It was so cool to me how it seemed so real! It really helped me understand it better! 7. I really liked learning more about the Boston Tea Party this year! It was funny to me how you were saying “When you put tea in water… I makes tea!” So the ocean became tea, anyway… 8. Also, I liked reading that sermon “Sinners in the hands of an Angry God” It was very interesting to me to read that guys perspective. 9. OK, I really loved watching Pocahontas in your class! It was so fun to me to watch the Disney version, then read a bunch of those articles, and do my project on her, and learn the true stuff about her! ( and never forget the time you played “the major pickup line” like 5 times so the boys could write it down ) 10. And last but not least, I can never forget the time we played that Jamestown game! That was so much fun! Lets just say the one we did as a class did not go so well! I loved learning about Jamestown that way! I love your class so much Mr. Haston! (373)
(Not any particular order) 1) I liked doing the Current Event games. It was fun to learn about current events that way. 2) I liked watching the Crash Course videos by John Green to learn different things. 3) Acting those skits out in class were fun, and your voice during the time the choir people were gone was hilarious. 4) When you gave us sections of the book that includes what really happened on different events was really fun even though my ship blew up I was still about to cut Joey with my gun. 5) I liked learning how to actually spell Connecticut. Makes more sense when you think connect i cut. 6) I didn't have any clue that some women helped with the whole spy network and some even fought in the war (disguised as men of course). 7) I liked playing those games to review for exams even though you figured out what DW and DL stood for... 8) The fact that we actually have a blog to do is cool because it always makes us think more and (even though it doesn't really like me) is still really fun. 9) Making that class colony for Jamestown was really fun except for the fact that we would've all died if we were alive in those days. 10) And last but certainly not least watching the Disney version of Pocahontas then comparing it to the actual story was fun (considering I'm a Disney fanatic and even though it was historically inaccurate it kind of goes along with the whole what if? kind of thing. Like the Year of the Hangman book I showed you)(276)
My top ten list for history. 1. How we learned the real story about Columbus, how he wasn't as good of a man as he is being maid out to be, and how bad he treated his crew and native Americans 2. Another thing I learned this year is how bad the winter of valley forge actually was. I knew it was actually bad but I didn't know that it was as bad as it was, I took for granet that everyone would have shoes to wear and enough food to eat. 3.another thing is that I learned more about the colones, like that some of them didn't have the same name as they do today. 4. I really liked how we learned about the Boston tea party. I learned how many creates of tea they actually dumped into the ocean. 5. I really liked how we did the current event games because last year in history we didn't do those and I feel like I know what is going on in the US more. 6. I also learned how big of a role the women played in helping send messages during the wars. 7. Another thing I liked about the class was that we did blogs I feel like they maid me more responsible because I had to rember to do them on time and I learned a lot form them. 8. Somthing that I had no idea about was that Pocahontas was actually like 13 years old wen she met the man and of anything it was just that they were friends. 9. I really liked how we learned about James town more in depth it wasn't just a over look of it we actually got into some of its history. 10. I really like those videos we watched in class it was like a quick over view of the chapter and it was almost all the time completely accurate. (398)
my top 10, which are in order of favorites, 1. playing the current event game, it really helped me learn more about current events in the US and what was happening. 2. the Revolutionary war videos were great, i really liked watching them especially learning about how the Sharpshooters could hit a target from 200-300 yards away, which is twice the distance of a military personal today. 3. Women helping in the war even though it was illegal. 4. what Columbus actually did and how he was a terrible person, not what people make of him today. 5. the john green videos were pretty good, i liked how he was a lot more in depth than most of the videos we have watched in previous years. 6. the blogs made me have to keep up with the class and go even farther in depth about certain topics. 7. how john smith wasnt in love like getting married love with they 13 year old pocohantus, but more like a bro sis relationship. 8. The boston tea party and what led up to it and how the people involved were almost killed later in teh war 9. The Sons of Liberty and how much they actually did behind the scenes of the war 10. Paul reviere didnt actually say The British are Coming, #ChildhoodRuined (222)
I learned a lot in US History this year. But here is my ten most favorite things I learned. 1. I think my favorite thing was learning about the Revolutionary War. And especially how w persevered no matter what problems were in front of our army. I thought that was really cool to learn about. 2. The second thing was in chapter one were we learned about the Ice Age. This was interesting because it proved that the movie Ice Age was actually based off a real event in history. 3. It was also fun to learn about the sea voyages of all the great European and Spanish explorers. My favorite out of all the explorers was Ferdinand Magellan. 4. It was also interesting to find out that because North Carolina has a large amount of tar, the University of North Carolina are the Tar Heels. And also James Oglethorpe is where Fort Oglethorpe in Georgia comes from. 5. I though bring t it was also very informing to learn about the Boston Massacre because you hear people talk about it sometimes but you have no idea what they are talking about. So it was very informing to learn about the facts and details from the Boston Massacre. 6. It was also fun to learn about Boston Tea Party. 7. Valley Forge was very interesting to me to see how our troops endured such hardships, And also how George Washington suffered through everything with them, and did his best to fix every problem that came up as well as strengthening our army. 8. I really enjoyed the crash course videos during class too. 9. Also I enjoyed watching the Revolutionary War episodes to help me learn in a different way than just reading out of the book. 10. And it was also interesting to learn that New York, one of the biggest population states now, as the last to support the Declaration of Independence. Over all it was a very fun semester in history. (325)
1. Valley Forge and how you could see where all the people had been because they didn’t have shoes. 2. French and Indian war and how the war wasn’t actually between the French and the Indians. 3. Guerilla war fare and how it changed how war was for ever. 4. Spy system and how It helped beat a bigger and stronger army by using “trick plays”. 5. The truth about Columbus and how he treated the natives. 6. Crash Corse it was so much information in 10 minutes and not boring. 7. The mini movies these helped me see how a bunch of stuff like Lexington and Concord actually happened. 8. Benedict Arnold was cool because it was seeing how much people hated him and how long they did. 9. Current event games helped me see what was going on in everyday life that I didn’t know about. 10. How the guns changed was cool because of how the notches in the barrel increased range and accuracy. (174)
1. I lived watching the song to late to apologize it made me want to listen, I probably listened to it 10 times. 2. I also like that guy that we listened to in class the one who talked really fast he was really funny. 3.I liked knowing that they didn't know that America was here until Christopher Columbus thought it was India I didn't know that until this year. 4. I also liked the way we reviewed for test by playing game that was a fun way to study. 5. the sentence summarize were fun to when we had to draw the pictures. 6. The plays that we acted out sometime was fun because we got to see some people use weird voices and that was funny. 7. the group activities were fun also instead of a test we did those it was a fun way to get to spend time talking with class mates instead of just writing on a piece of paper. 8. I also liked the current Event game it was a fun way to learn about what was going on in are society. 9. I learned a lot from the time we had to teach the class and we had to know the section. 10. I loved learning about the Mayan the Aztec the Olmec and the Inca some of these people did awful thing and some had big populations I just thought It was col to learn about. (244)
This list is from best to the least best. ( things I liked, but not as much as the others). 1. Current Event Games 2. John Greene Videos 3. Make up current events ( that saved my grade) 4. Drawing Pictures on the sentence summaries 5. I liked the plays we acted out. 6. I liked having group activities instead of tests. 7. I’m not a group project person ( I absolutely despise working in groups) but you made it okay. 8. I liked the review for midterm games. 9. Getting Bonus points for games and the blog 10. Blog (100 Words)
(In order of favoritism)
ReplyDelete1. The most interesting thing I enjoyed this semester was finding out that Paul Revere wasn't the man who rode around alerting people that the British were coming. The other thing that surprised me was that "The British are coming!" weren't even the words used!
2. Okay, acting out the things we were learning in history was really fun. Something about seeing the context in action allowed us to get the feel of what the event really was like.
3. It was fun creating our own settlement with that website you found! Too bad we didn't get to choose all the worse options as a class! But I learned from this that there were many decisions to take into consideration when Jamestown was being formed.
4. "The Story of Us" was AMAZE! I'm still getting over the fact how amazing the clothing was. IT ALL LOOKED SO REAL! It really kept my attention and helped with the material. What I didn't know was that women were spies, too.
5. I loved watching "Liberty Kids" to answer our blog on Valley Forge! That show rocks! Too bad I don't watch it as often anymore. The blog helped me remember those "days". I didn't know that Benjamin Franklin recommended Fredrick Von Stueben until watching that episode.
6. Mr. Haston, where do you find all those books that tell us the side stories that supported the big picture in history? Those are too fun to read.
7. The blog where we had to write a letter in the perspective of De Vaca was interesting, so I give it a "7".
8. Learning the truth about Christopher Columbus and how he treated the Native Americans…STILL MIND-BLOWING
9. I liked reading about someone from history, in my case Olaudah Equiano, because it helped me get in depth of how much different life was back then compared to now. Times have really changed.
10. The Crash Corse videos were fun! They really helped us take a good first-look at the material. They were pretty interesting!
(343)
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ReplyDelete(Not really in a particular order)
ReplyDelete1. I really liked watching the John Greene videos! I really liked the one about the French Indian War
2. I like learning about the colonies! It was interesting to figure out which colony was kind of famous for each thing!
3. I loved learning about the Revolutionary War! It was so cool to me knowing that women spied, and was sometimes even a soldier!
4. I also liked learning about the winter at Valley Forge. It was interesting to me to know that even though some soldiers left, some were dedicated and fought through the cold!
5. Another thing I thought was fun was when we acted out some of the things we were learning about. It was so fun to see how the rest of my classmates and I would talk and act!
6. Something else I liked that we watched was that movie… I think it was something like “The Story of Us” I can’t remember what it was called but I really liked it! It was so cool to me how it seemed so real! It really helped me understand it better!
7. I really liked learning more about the Boston Tea Party this year! It was funny to me how you were saying “When you put tea in water… I makes tea!” So the ocean became tea, anyway…
8. Also, I liked reading that sermon “Sinners in the hands of an Angry God” It was very interesting to me to read that guys perspective.
9. OK, I really loved watching Pocahontas in your class! It was so fun to me to watch the Disney version, then read a bunch of those articles, and do my project on her, and learn the true stuff about her! ( and never forget the time you played “the major pickup line” like 5 times so the boys could write it down )
10. And last but not least, I can never forget the time we played that Jamestown game! That was so much fun! Lets just say the one we did as a class did not go so well! I loved learning about Jamestown that way! I love your class so much Mr. Haston! (373)
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ReplyDelete(Not any particular order)
ReplyDelete1) I liked doing the Current Event games. It was fun to learn about current events that way.
2) I liked watching the Crash Course videos by John Green to learn different things.
3) Acting those skits out in class were fun, and your voice during the time the choir people were gone was hilarious.
4) When you gave us sections of the book that includes what really happened on different events was really fun even though my ship blew up I was still about to cut Joey with my gun.
5) I liked learning how to actually spell Connecticut. Makes more sense when you think connect i cut.
6) I didn't have any clue that some women helped with the whole spy network and some even fought in the war (disguised as men of course).
7) I liked playing those games to review for exams even though you figured out what DW and DL stood for...
8) The fact that we actually have a blog to do is cool because it always makes us think more and (even though it doesn't really like me) is still really fun.
9) Making that class colony for Jamestown was really fun except for the fact that we would've all died if we were alive in those days.
10) And last but certainly not least watching the Disney version of Pocahontas then comparing it to the actual story was fun (considering I'm a Disney fanatic and even though it was historically inaccurate it kind of goes along with the whole what if? kind of thing. Like the Year of the Hangman book I showed you)(276)
My top ten list for history.
ReplyDelete1. How we learned the real story about Columbus, how he wasn't as good of a man as he is being maid out to be, and how bad he treated his crew and native Americans
2. Another thing I learned this year is how bad the winter of valley forge actually was. I knew it was actually bad but I didn't know that it was as bad as it was, I took for granet that everyone would have shoes to wear and enough food to eat.
3.another thing is that I learned more about the colones, like that some of them didn't have the same name as they do today.
4. I really liked how we learned about the Boston tea party. I learned how many creates of tea they actually dumped into the ocean.
5. I really liked how we did the current event games because last year in history we didn't do those and I feel like I know what is going on in the US more.
6. I also learned how big of a role the women played in helping send messages during the wars.
7. Another thing I liked about the class was that we did blogs I feel like they maid me more responsible because I had to rember to do them on time and I learned a lot form them.
8. Somthing that I had no idea about was that Pocahontas was actually like 13 years old wen she met the man and of anything it was just that they were friends.
9. I really liked how we learned about James town more in depth it wasn't just a over look of it we actually got into some of its history.
10. I really like those videos we watched in class it was like a quick over view of the chapter and it was almost all the time completely accurate. (398)
my top 10, which are in order of favorites,
ReplyDelete1. playing the current event game, it really helped me learn more about current events in the US and what was happening.
2. the Revolutionary war videos were great, i really liked watching them especially learning about how the Sharpshooters could hit a target from 200-300 yards away, which is twice the distance of a military personal today.
3. Women helping in the war even though it was illegal.
4. what Columbus actually did and how he was a terrible person, not what people make of him today.
5. the john green videos were pretty good, i liked how he was a lot more in depth than most of the videos we have watched in previous years.
6. the blogs made me have to keep up with the class and go even farther in depth about certain topics.
7. how john smith wasnt in love like getting married love with they 13 year old pocohantus, but more like a bro sis relationship.
8. The boston tea party and what led up to it and how the people involved were almost killed later in teh war
9. The Sons of Liberty and how much they actually did behind the scenes of the war
10. Paul reviere didnt actually say The British are Coming, #ChildhoodRuined
(222)
I learned a lot in US History this year. But here is my ten most favorite things I learned.
ReplyDelete1. I think my favorite thing was learning about the Revolutionary War. And especially how w persevered no matter what problems were in front of our army. I thought that was really cool to learn about.
2. The second thing was in chapter one were we learned about the Ice Age. This was interesting because it proved that the movie Ice Age was actually based off a real event in history.
3. It was also fun to learn about the sea voyages of all the great European and Spanish explorers. My favorite out of all the explorers was Ferdinand Magellan.
4. It was also interesting to find out that because North Carolina has a large amount of tar, the University of North Carolina are the Tar Heels. And also James Oglethorpe is where Fort Oglethorpe in Georgia comes from.
5. I though bring t it was also very informing to learn about the Boston Massacre because you hear people talk about it sometimes but you have no idea what they are talking about. So it was very informing to learn about the facts and details from the Boston Massacre.
6. It was also fun to learn about Boston Tea Party.
7. Valley Forge was very interesting to me to see how our troops endured such hardships, And also how George Washington suffered through everything with them, and did his best to fix every problem that came up as well as strengthening our army.
8. I really enjoyed the crash course videos during class too.
9. Also I enjoyed watching the Revolutionary War episodes to help me learn in a different way than just reading out of the book.
10. And it was also interesting to learn that New York, one of the biggest population states now, as the last to support the Declaration of Independence.
Over all it was a very fun semester in history. (325)
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ReplyDeleteMy top ten in no particular order:
ReplyDelete1. Valley Forge and how you could see where all the people had been because they didn’t have shoes.
2. French and Indian war and how the war wasn’t actually between the French and the Indians.
3. Guerilla war fare and how it changed how war was for ever.
4. Spy system and how It helped beat a bigger and stronger army by using “trick plays”.
5. The truth about Columbus and how he treated the natives.
6. Crash Corse it was so much information in 10 minutes and not boring.
7. The mini movies these helped me see how a bunch of stuff like Lexington and Concord actually happened.
8. Benedict Arnold was cool because it was seeing how much people hated him and how long they did.
9. Current event games helped me see what was going on in everyday life that I didn’t know about.
10. How the guns changed was cool because of how the notches in the barrel increased range and accuracy. (174)
1. I lived watching the song to late to apologize it made me want to listen, I probably listened to it 10 times.
ReplyDelete2. I also like that guy that we listened to in class the one who talked really fast he was really funny.
3.I liked knowing that they didn't know that America was here until Christopher Columbus thought it was India I didn't know that until this year.
4. I also liked the way we reviewed for test by playing game that was a fun way to study.
5. the sentence summarize were fun to when we had to draw the pictures.
6. The plays that we acted out sometime was fun because we got to see some people use weird voices and that was funny.
7. the group activities were fun also instead of a test we did those it was a fun way to get to spend time talking with class mates instead of just writing on a piece of paper.
8. I also liked the current Event game it was a fun way to learn about what was going on in are society.
9. I learned a lot from the time we had to teach the class and we had to know the section.
10. I loved learning about the Mayan the Aztec the Olmec and the Inca some of these people did awful thing and some had big populations I just thought It was col to learn about.
(244)
This list is from best to the least best. ( things I liked, but not as much as the others).
ReplyDelete1. Current Event Games
2. John Greene Videos
3. Make up current events ( that saved my grade)
4. Drawing Pictures on the sentence summaries
5. I liked the plays we acted out.
6. I liked having group activities instead of tests.
7. I’m not a group project person ( I absolutely despise working in groups) but you made it okay.
8. I liked the review for midterm games.
9. Getting Bonus points for games and the blog
10. Blog
(100 Words)