Let's Be Free

Recently in Honors History 10 class we learned about freedom of the slaves and how Abraham Lincoln played a big role in the actions being made about slaves. The essential question was who gave freedom to enslaved Americans? Did freedom come from above or below? To what extent were Abraham Lincoln's actions influenced by the actions of enslaved Americans? To help answer this question in class we analyzed a picture of Abraham helping a slave. We also analyzed many documents on the topic. After we analyzed these documents we used the whiteboards at our stations and put each document in either above or below slavery category.

The first part of the essential question was who gave freedom to enslaved Americans and was it from above or below? To answer this we used documents X and Y. The slaves fought for their freedom and wanted the government and people of higher power to react. Documents X and Y tell us that freedom was from below. Although slavery was from above in some situations it was mainly from below. The last part of the essential question was to what extent were Abraham Lincoln's actions influenced by the actions of enslaved Americans? Abraham Lincoln took risks during the time he was alive. Abraham Lincoln was not scared of what others thought of him he helped slaves just like he would help anyone else. To answer this part of the essential question we used all of the documents provided for us in class but also the small reading in the class notes on edline. The notes on edline tell us that Lincoln's actions were influenced by the actions of enslaved Americans because Lincoln abolished slavery forever.

Freedom is defined as "the power or right to act, speak, or think as one wants without hindrance or resistant." In our world today people have freedom but some do not. One event that has recently shown having freedom is Bruce Jenner wanting to become a women. Bruce Jenner was given the title "world's best athlete" in the summer of 1976.   Bruce was married two times before marrying Kris Kardashian. While married to Kris the family got there own tv show called "Keeping up with the Kardashians." The whole family became very famous and everything they did was public. Ever since Bruce was a little kid he liked dressing up in girls clothes and soon after Kris's and his divorce he decided to do what makes him happy and he doesn't care what the public thinks of him. This situation shows freedom because Bruce is free to do what he wants and yes people might judge him but he doesn't up are because it is what he wants.

                           

(This is my groups whiteboard of what documents we put in freedom above and below) 

Fight to The Finish

This week in honors history 10 class we learned about the battles during the civil war. To learn about these battles everyone in the class got to pick one of the 20 battles to choose from. Once we picked our battle we researched it and made a Google doc that had the battle name, date,location, theater and victor. With this Google doc we made QR codes and then hung our battles up around the school. We ran around the school gathering all the information for the 19 other battles. With all this information the next day in class we used padlet to display which theater dominated and who the victor mostly was. The essential questions this week were who was the ultimate victor in each of the theaters of war:East, West and Naval. The other question was what are some commonalities you can identify in the reasons for the results of battles.

 

The battles of the civil war were between the union and the confederates. The three theaters were the East, West and Naval. The Confederacy dominated in the East theater. The confederacy dominated in the East theater because The confederates has more soldiers and had stronger attacks. In the West theater the Union won. The Union won because they had better defense skills because they had better weapons than the Confederacy. In the Naval theater the union won again. The reason why the Union won was because they had better resources and they owned better weapons like engines to boats.

 

The East,West and Naval theaters share many commonalities. These commonalities are the reason why the results of the battles were what they were. Some of the commonalities were all three theaters, confederates and the union used weapons. Some may have been better than others but both the confederates and the union used them. Another commonality they share are both the Union and Confederacy won Around 10 out of the 20 battles that happened. Although overall the union won for the West and Naval the total amount of battles they each won was about even. 

 

My Battle Google Doc

 

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