Friday, January 16, 2009

Revolutionary War

Watch the segments "Events that led to the Revolution" and "Six Revolutionary War Figures and Their Important Roles" from the video in the following link. When you are done watching these post a response you had as you were watching these and also a question that you had.

http://player.discoveryeducation.com/index.cfm?guidAssetId=794BF460-A898-49DB-BBCA-D72C9FF9C952&blnFromSearch=1&productcode=US

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17 comments:

Anonymous said...

I did not know John Hancock was rich.
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Anonymous said...

Sorry I forgot to put a question on my last comment. I did not know that John Hancock was rich. I can't believe that he had so many windows! When was Patrick Henry born?
#14 :)

Anonymous said...

I thought the videos were good.I learned a lot about the Six Figures and I had a question did all of them meet each other at one meeting?#9

Anonymous said...

My reaponse is that the colonies faoght hard and brave and in the end it worked out, because King Gorerge had to sign a peace with the colonies. This is my guestion Why did they make up the Deuastion of Indupends?

#16

Anonymous said...

I thought this video was very knowledgeable, so that made me pretty much think it was great. I did wonder: Why did the lady that told the stories and such tell about when she was a kid at the beginning? That confused me a little.

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Anonymous said...

I thought that they way the Revolution started was really cool. And the 6 people who were in part of starting it or being in it had their own little story to tell. I liked watching the videos because it made me learn in a fun way. One question that i had was why did king want to keep raising taxes when he knew that nobody was going to pay them?

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Anonymous said...

I was surprised of how this all started and how six people took a big step in this war. Also I had a question of How did they confence King Gorge the third to start taxing people?.

#13

Anonymous said...

while watching these clips I realized that we had a hard time breaking away from england and that we didn't take being taxed ligghtly. Why did britain surrender and why did john hancock try and live in as high a style as possible.

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Anonymous said...

I did't know that one of them would be so fancy and whanted atechin for them self.

#12 Katrina

Anonymous said...

I thought that the video's were very interesting I never really knew that there were so many people that fought in the revolutionary war and it was so cool.

#6

Anonymous said...

I realized that just because of a little tax, people started making it a way bigger deal than it really is.
Why was John Hancock think he was so rich just because he was rich and had a really big house.

Anonymous said...

I didn't no that Mr. franklin had 10 children. Why would someone want 54 windows.

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Anonymous said...

I didn't know that Mr. franklin had 10 children. Who would want 54 windows?

#17

Anonymous said...

I thought the videos were very interesting because it taught me when Paul Revere and everybody else was born and what they did as children and what they did before the revolution.#15

Anonymous said...

John Hancock- he became a rich man but did he act all stuck up because he had so much money and a nice house and good cloths.

Q: why did Ben run away from home
( did someone treat him bad )
Q: Why did Ben put so many taxes on many things ( did they need more money )
Q: How come there was battles every day
#18

Anonymous said...

Sorry i could not find the Revolutionary War link so I improvised!
I'm guessing we are going to do a response and a questions
Response
I think it was very interesting how the narrator was a very good to explain how it happened.And how they put in interesting facts.
1. Why was John Hancock the first to sign?
2.Why did they not let everyone sign?
3.Why were they fighting now afterward weren't they happy to be free?
Sorry again Hope this counts!!!
#4

Anonymous said...

I think the video was very interesting because it told how people were like. Before the Revolution war went on. There lifes where way different than our lives today.
#18