How To Treat Your Kids... Harin L. 8A

The class started with the normal routine of shaking your hand with Mr. Armstrong and bringing out the agendas with the renown words of "questions, comments, concerns, guilty consciences?" with any of the homework. Today's topic was the relationship between the colonies and British and how one side wanted one thing and the other side wanted another. We started off with the parent-child relationship and how Britain was trying to control the colonies. Mr. Armstrong asked us what our parents would do. One of the most memorable ones was Dean's suggestion that the parents should starve their children. Of course we were reminded that even though the British really did want control, of course they didn't want to have dead colonies. Then Mr. Armstrong showed us a Powerpoint presentation where he showed the views of the two sides and how each were having very different ideas on what they were doing to each other. He also explained how these events led to the Revolutionary War and the how the tensions were rising. Before he explained this though, Jenny L. asked why the wars took so long. Mr. Armstrong explained to Jenny that because of the long distances between the colonies and and the actual Mother country, Britain, it was hard to actually sustain all the recruits overseas and be able to continue war. After this was made the clear the Powerpoint continued with the diagram of the colonies and the one British man with a crown representing the tensions between the two but how the colonists were still unsure of whether to cut ties with the British or not. After this, we were to take notes on the key terms and main ideas from the textbook. After a while Mr. Armstrong asked for any clarification on the key terms and David asked what was the difference between the minutemen and the Continental Army was. After the class explained, we all understood the contrasts and comparisons of the two key terms. This is what we did for class today. In my opinion, this was more of an immersion session then an actual comprehension of the information, but overall, we learned a lot from today's note taking.
Harin L.