October 5, 2012 and October 9, 2012
On the 5th, we went over our Edcafe and simplified notes so that everyone got the main points and understood the order the events went in. Then, we go the poem Paul Revere's Ride by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and some actual facts about the ride. We tried to rewrite the poem as a sonnet but also report more accurately than Longfellow. At the end of the period, we were swiftly handed a bunch of papers, including one that was six feet long, to do with an upcoming project.
On the 9th, we were given papers, that separated us into six groups, to read one document about the "shot heard 'round the world." Each of the papers was from a different perspective and each basically told a completely different story. (In fact one of them didn't even mention who fired the first shot and was confusingly not about the battle. It was just about some people being jerks on the road. This, of course, was the group that I was in.) Before we did this though, we watched a video on how people's memories aren't reliable because they are reconstructed with new information. It was quite interesting. Then we were each given a number and went into those groups to talk about each of documents to the people there. When we put all the information in the documents together, it became very clear that no one will ever really know who fired the "shot heard 'round the world."
Until next time!
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