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Daily Routine VI

For the past two classes we have been focused on Major Battles in the Revolutionary War. On Monday Mr. Boyle put a moving display of some of the important turning points. One of the battles was the Battle of Long Island were General Washington was able to escape General Cornwallis and get to safety. Then today we were split into pairs and sent around the school to scan Quick Response Codes in order to gain more information on these battles such as date and location of the battles. This was a great way to end the day simply because its great to get to stand and walk while learning, after sitting for 5 hours.

Daily Routine V

Today we had a substitute by the name of Mrs. Buswell. Mr.Boyle had left her with instructions to assign the class with writing and essay about "The Crises" a work written by Thomas Paine. She must have felt very passionate about this piece because she told us about how it has truly opened her eyes to the revolutionary cause. The article wasn't as ground breaking for me. It just seemed as though Mr. Paine had a good grip on reality and told it how it was. He was very gifted with words and I'm sure that this work inspired not only soldiers but people all throughout the colonies. The quote we had to focus on was "these are the times that try mens souls." We were asked if the times that we were living in were also "times that try mens souls." I said that there never isn't a time that is hard on people. Some times more so then others but there is always struggle.

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EdCafe II

The EdCafe consumed all of the class time today due to the fact that there were 6 groups with lots to say about their topic. Yesterday our class headed down to the lab and created a slide show about our EdCafe topic and its subsections. My topic was the first meeting of a congress in 1774. There were many subsections of this broad topics and each of those subgroups turned into a slide. Then today we were split up again and taught our peers about our section. Again many debates were started and I learned more about everybodys subjects.

Daily Routine IV

The past two days were spent preparing for and preforming the second round of delicious EdCafe. The subject matter was set around the first meeting of a body of congress. The class went down to the lab to the create a powerpoint about our subject. So today we were split into groups with a representative from each powerpoint group. Then we proceeded to educate the other in our group about our topic. From what I was able to gather, the one factor that linked all of these different subjects together. Was that they all were related to the uproar that began in America. These were the issues that fueled the anger during the Revolution.

EdCafe I

Basically what EdCafe is all about is the students are teaching the other students about the topic. My topic as I stated in my Daily Routine III post is about freedom of religion. I like this method and I think I would like it if I were the teacher to simply because it means less "mouths to teach." But in all seriousness i like this activity due to the amount of debates that can be started by the smallest detail. I'm not quite sure how use student are graded on this whole EdCafe business but i felt that I did pretty well. Also I have no idea whats going on with the name just to avoid confusion no coffee or baked goods were involved.

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Daily Routine III

For the past couple of days we have been talking about the 10 amendments. More specifically we have been focusing on the First Amendment and have been split into groups of 4 to further analyze this topic. My group was tasked with talking about the Freedom of Religion. I was personally quite pleased to be assigned this topic since it was one of the easiest ones to make a case for. Freedom of religion is the whole reason the pilgrims came here in the first place. I feel like the first amendment includes all of the freedoms that we take for granted these days. Nobody seriously considers what life would be like without these document protecting us.