Picturing America

I think they tried to teach american history like this because it seems more interesting to show pictures of american history than rather reading it in a book or encyclopedia(ECT...).

From these pictures you can learn how they dressed and what things looked like then. The cities and homes look different than now. The homes and cities looked more older and less small than now. The people wore wigs and long cloaks then also.  

I think the pictures were selected to show that things in american history were more older and historical than now. People then were American Heros too so, they could've picked those pictures for American Heros.

The pictures that I like are Falling water, and View from mount Holyoke, Northampton, Massachusetts, after thunderstorm. I like these pictures because they are about nature and they are beautiful.

 Here's the site,Picturing America

Painting with a hammer

I think that this video painting with a hammer was named this because, The man in the video was making art with the silver. He was using  tools like hammers to make art. That is why I think this video is called painting with a hammer.

Lebanon Silver Mine

In stop 2, ("The Lunch Room") The miners used a double jack sledge hammer. They would see by having candles in the mine with them. At stop 5,("The Changing Room")  Miners would change there wet mining clothes for new dry clothes after they were done with their work. There was a fireplace in that room so they could dry their clothes. In stop 7, (" The Tool Shed") I recognize the hammer at the bottom. They could've used that for mining silver and other minerals. In stop 12,("Powering The Mill") The mill had been powered by water and the creek near by.

Silver of the 18th, 19th, and 20th Century

These pictures look the same in lots of ways. They both look like they are used for some sort of drinking set. They all are made from silver and are in tea form. They all look like they were used a long time ago like, in the 1800's. The silver drinking sets

Twilight By: Stephenie Meyer

Twilight was about a Girl named Bella who fell in love with a vampire. Bella moves to Washington for the summer and is not liking it. She goes there to live with her dad. The first day of school there, she sits by an unusual boy that sits on the edge of the seat. His eyes were always black and he was very pale. As Bella gets to know him, she falls in love with him also. She then figures out that Edward is a vampire. A boy named Jacob tells her the story of the vampires and wolves. One day as Bella was with Edward and his family, 3 vampires come to see what they had been doing. What the Cullens (Edwards family) didn't know was that the strangers wanted Bella's blood.  To find out what happens in the rest of this mind thrilling book read Twilight By: Stephenie Meyer.

Sans Arc Lakota Ledger Book 1880-1881

The Patterns I see on this picture is in their clothes. The next pattern in the feathers. They repeat in all of the Native Americans clothing. The last pattern is The feathers in their hair.

Migrant Mother, 1936

The picture on Migrant Mother looks likes she is thinking about what's going to happen in the future. She looks worried about her children and what's going to happen to them. The Migrant Mother is living during the great depression.

19th-20th Century

I like the Bright Blue striped quilt. It looks like it took awhile to make. I think that it looks very ineresting and Beautiful!

Benjamin Franklin

1. Three deatails that this picture (statue) is that He is wearing a hat that people wore in the 1800's. He is wearing a long cloak that people wore in the 1800's also. Lastly is that, Benjamin franklin is not living anymore. He is a American hero.

My Side Of The Mountain Chapter 22

1. A photographer cam and all of a sudden took a picture of sam. It had made his heart heavy, and also that frightful was on his shoulder.
2. Sam talked to reporters and photographers for the next four days
3. Days later, Sam's father came. Sam heard voices and then he hesitated before meeting his dad.
4. Sam had found out that his dad brought the whole family to visit.
5. Sam's mother had said, "Well if he doesn't want to come home, then we will bring home to him."
6. Sam's father brought lumber to build a  house. His family was going to live with him.
7. His mother said that they are not leaving him until he's eighteen.

My Side Of The Mountain Chapter 21

1. Jessie didn't come around anymore because, she had a tree full of babies and was taking care of them.
2. A man named Aaron came to the mountains for passover. He and Sam sang songs.
3. Sam wouldn't have made another house for Bando and Matt.
4.  When Matt saw Sam's tree, he had asked sam why he lives in a tree.
5. After Sam and Matt returned from the fishing trip, Sam found Bando sleeping on his bed.
6. Matt had told Sam That there might be photographers on the mountain.
7. After Matt and Bando had left, Mr. jacket came. His real name was Tom Sidler.
8. Aaron had never asked him what he was doing on the mountains.

My Side Of The Mountain Chapter 20

1. In February, Maple trees began to make syrup.
2. Sam looked for skunk cabbage in the marsh.
3. A boy named Matt Spell was looking for a wild boy. He startled Sam while he was whistling for Frightful.
4. Sam told Matt where the wild boy was. Although he was the wild boy. Matt had believed the story he told.
5. Sam and Matt made roasted rabbit and Matt liked every bite of it.
6. Matt was supposed to return with a news paper of what He wrote about Sam
7. Frightful was talking about Matt. She didn't want him to come because he ate to much.

My side of the mountain Chapter 18(paragraph)

In my side of the mountain chapter 18, sam made moccasins to walk in the cold snow. Sam had named four birds. Their names were Mr. Bracket, Mrs. O'Brien, Mrs. Callaway, and Mrs. Federio. Sam named the birds these names for this reason. It reminded him of 23 Avenue. Bando had come around 4:30 christmas eve. Sam was making him Rabbit skinned moccasins. Bando told sam about him in the newspaper clippings. After Bando told sam about the newspaper clippings, they played christmas songs on the willow whistles. Bando was too tired to play more after that.

Sam's dad had came in the morning. He knew where to find him from the news paper. Sam's onion soup was cooked to perfection when they ate it for christmas dinner.  Sam iced fished for breakfast that morning and he caught a fish for breakfast. Sam's dad had stayed the longest. His dad left by a different route than he came. He id this because he did't want anyone to hot trail him and find Sam.

My side of the mountain Chapter 17

1. When he was cutting wood, he said it kept him busy.
2. The author means that In the beginning of the book, Sam is talking about the snowstorm and him being afraid and what not. So Sam says " Now I'm back where I began. I wont tell it again." So, Sam is back where he started with the snow storm.Sam had found winterberry and teaberry eaves under the ground.
3. Sam's standby for breakfast was Bando's jam on hard acorn pancakes.
4. Sam had found winterberry and teaberry eaves under the ground.
   
5. Sam wrote on birch bark because he had no paper.

My side of the mountain Chapter 16

1. Frightful's feathers changed plumage during autumn. Sam had said it looked beautiful.
2. Sam had used a penknife to cut his hair.
3. Sam was walking in town as a boy his age called him Daniel Boone 
4. The boy knew he was from new york because of his accent.
5. Sam had told the boy he was doing research.
6. Sam called the boy Mr. Jacket. He called him this because he had talked about his deerskin jacket
7. Sam had forgotten to get wood for the winter.

My side of the mountain Chapter 15

1. Hunting begins in early November. Sam needs to hide from them so he wont get caught.
2. Sam wanted to go to the library to see Miss Turner.
3. After sam was trying to go to the library a shot went off practically at his elbow and he saw a deer. That made him stay.
4. The hunter gave up on his deer because, The deer had fallen in the ferns and the hunter gave up his hunt.
5. Same didn't smoke the venison because, it was so cold that the coldness had preserved it.
6. Sam had trouble tanning the deers hide because the water had kept freezing.

My side of the mountain Chapter 14

1. Sam's competition for food was the squirrels.
2. Sam dried apples on a boulder to keep them dry and so they wouldn't get moldy.
3. Sam served, some of his dried apples, walnuts and hickory nuts.
4. Sam found wild rice in the ox bow at the stream.
5. Sam's house got trashed by raccoons. They were throwing all his goods around.
6. To get rid of his guests, sam chased them, threw more wood in the fire, and growled, snarled, hissed and snorted.
7. The bat had been the last one to leave.

My Side of the mountain Chapter13

After Bando had left, Sam spent his time collecting food for the winter.As winter was coming, Baron the weasel was changing into his winter fur. That made sam think. He wanted to get stuff for winter to. So, he was going to make a winter suit. Animals were preparing for winter. They were collecting food and hibernating. So, Sam's raccoon was fat. Sam dragged clay up the mountain to build a fire place to keep his tree warm in the winter. Sam finally got his fireplace to work. But, the fire place took up oxygen and frightful got sick. So, Sam had to fix his fireplace once more. Sam fixed the chimney with two stones and cut more holes in his tree.

My side of the mountain Chapter12

1. Sam used rug wood for his bath. He said its gets soapy when you rub it with water.
2. Sam met a raccoon. He had dug mussels for sam.
3. Frightening, Sam's falcon, Was now called the expert hunter. She caught lots of different meats for sam.
4. Sam made sassafras and pennyroyal tea.
5. In the book, Sam finds a man between the shed and a tree.
6. He made, Brown puffballs in deer fat with a little wild garlic. And had made boiled venison.
7. Sam had made up a name for the man. He called him "Bando"."Bando" called Sam "Thoreau".
8. Bando stayed with sam until his school started in september.
9. Bando made jars, lids, and an oven with the clay they found in the river. Sam says it was as course as ice.
10. Bando promised sam he would come back at christmas.
11. Sam and Bando made willow whistles. They played jazz with them.

(paragraph.) Chapter 11 my side of the mountain.

Sam used rug wood for taking a bath. Sam had met a raccoon. He dug mussels for him. What ever the raccoon didn't eat, Sam would have the raccoon dig for him. Frightful, Sam's falcon, was now the expert hunter. She caught lots of meat for sam to eat. Sam made sassafras tea and pennyroyal drinks. The man that Sam found was sleeping Between the house and a tree.