Hey everyone! Lissy and I were talking, and we thought that our story should be written from the perspective of children. Our original idea was to have a brother and sister with their english friend/cousin. All three of these characters would be fictional, but after doing a little research, Lissy found this web sight, http://allthingsliberty.com/2013/04/young-people-at-war/ . This gives an idea of the role an American child might have had during the war. The first boy, Joseph Plumb Martin, could be used as one of the main historical characters, our story would follow him through the battles he fought in. To give a feel for the life people lived in occupied towns, we could introduce two fictional girls: an American girl with her English cousin/friend. We could arrange a meeting between the them, or just create two separate stories with parallels. There are several stories of women spies during the war that could be included, and there is no shortage of stories of brave men. This is just an idea that we could play around with! :)
That is not a bad idea! Although, if you go to the website, it says that he joined the war a year later. If we want to have the first events, we either have to tweak the story, or find someone else who started from the beginning.
Hey Guys! Max Pointer has agreed to be the narrator for our project! He is very talented at this type of thing and I think he would be an amazing narrator. Let me know if this works for all of you.
If I could do Paul Revere/ Lexington and Concord that would be great? If anyone else wanted to do this, I would be fine with doing something like where they train, which would also be cool. Yeah
I think it would be awesome if we did the Battle of Lexington and Concord from the eyes of both the English soldiers and the Colonial soldiers. How the English viewed it, and how the Colonials viewed it.
Johnna, can you do the Lexington/Concord battle from the view of the Americans? And then you can do like a story scene. And I will then get Paul Revere and the English view? Does that work for everyone?
I thought of another idea for our project that may be easier to do as a group. In each episodes (chapters) we could have reporter/s that could go on both sides of the war (i.e. loyalists or patriots). These reporter/s would be fictional characters. Here is a rough example of how it might look like: (Setting: Crossing the Delaware River on Christmas Eve) Reporter: We are right now at the Delaware River. Let me try to talk to someone. Hello, young soldier. What's all the commotion? Why are you crossing the river on this frigid night?
Soldier 1: General Washington is having us cross this cold river to try attack the British army.
Soldier 2: They're not going to know what hit them! .................(conversation continues for a bit can describe more of the attack plan that Washington created)....
Reporter: That is quite a clever plan. Let's check what's going on across the river. Charles (reporter), what is happening in the British camp?
Charles: It looks like they are having a grand time, celebrating Christmas and clearing their minds of the war. ........................... Some things we need to decide: If we use this idea we will have to decide if we have the same reporters in each episode If we do have the same reporters then we need to create a "story board" for their characters. (Character traits) We also need a theme(thread) that brings all of our episodes together. (Ex. Independence, search for freedom, who really won the war (every event claims to be the one that wins the war but really it is all the events that won the war), search for liberty, forgiveness, team work)
We need to remember that whatever we end up doing needs to be simple and easy to tie together. We have 12 different people needing to each make their own script and we have to write our rough drafts soon. We will need to talk about everything at lunch this coming Wednesday so that we can be ready to write our drafts that week. What do you guys think? Hope what I said made sense!
Okay, so I made a list of possible topics (This is basically the headers for the sections in the history textbook) pg. 105-131:
1. Boston Tea Party 2. Paul Revere/ Shot heard ‘round the world (battles of Lexington and Concord) 3. Bunker Hill 4. Trenton/Princeton 5. Brandywine 6. Saratoga (This is an important battle/campaign but I don't know if its long enough for a whole chapter, maybe we could just stick it in somewhere.) 7. Vally Forge (this would include the army training) 8. Monmouth 9. War in the West 10. War in the South (this looks long, but I think certain things can be cut out) 11. Cowpens 12. Cornwallis Surrender/Treaty of Paris
These are just my ideas, we don't have to use these, but we just need to get some suggestions out there. :)
I would really love to do the Boston Tea Party... ..if that doesn't work than I could do Monmouth.. ..if that doesn't work than I will do whatever is left.. :)
Ok, I compiled a list of what people are doing, using Grace's list of events:
1. Boston Tea Party - Grace Pointner 2. Paul Revere/ Shot heard ‘round the world (battles of Lexington and Concord) - Katie (English), Johnna (American 3. Bunker Hill - Matthew Oh (Colonial), ? (English) 4. Trenton/Princeton - Lissy Rienow 5. Brandywine 6. Saratoga (This is an important battle/campaign but I don't know if its long enough for a whole chapter, maybe we could just stick it in somewhere.) 7. Vally Forge (this would include the army training) 8. Monmouth - Elizabeth 9. War in the West 10. War in the South (this looks long, but I think certain things can be cut out) 11. Cowpens 12. Cornwallis Surrender/Treaty of Paris - Grace James
This is just a basic, we can easily edit it. Even the whole thing, with who wants what. ;)
A lot of you had 2 different ones, I put up one of the 2, but if you decided that you really don't want that one, just tell me. ;D Or just copy, and paste the edited list, whatever works.
I think we first have to decide how many main characters we are going to include, which ones are English and American, and weather their girls or boys.
Because we each need a paragraph of what our chapter's plots are going to be, we sort of need an overarching story line for the whole thing. We could all think of one then compare them, or one person would write the general idea...idk. If you need a person to write the general story line then I could try, I'm just not sure I could have it done by Wednesday.
I was wondering if we could ask Mr. Parker if we could meet during lunch to figure out the character list, I think something like that could be hard to do via blog... just a thought.
Just in case someone checks this before their email: Hey everyone, I am emailing instead of writing on the blog because it looks like not everyone has had a chance to participate in our conversation about our documentary projects via blog. Our proposal for the documentary is due this Wed. None of us can complete it if we don't all work together. It sounds like we need more time to talk as a group since it is too difficult to do this via email or blog. We also need more time to plan everything out since we thought that all we had to do this week was give our topic. I agree with Johanna about making a over arching story line (ie. a theme like I talked about in one of my posts on the blog). Personally, I don't think that one person should take the brunt of the work to write the over arching story line.
Should I contact Mr. Parker and ask if we can talk at lunch to get story line and characters written out and get an extension for our proposals? Please reply to all ASAP!!! Thanks! Grace J.
Would it be alright if I focused on one or two battles of the War in the South? For example, starting with Charleston and ending with the "Swamp Fox" Francis Marion.
Wow, thanks Matthew, that was fast!
ReplyDeleteTHAT WAS FAST YOU GOT SKILZ! Props Mathew.
DeleteThanks, it was my pleasure! Any of you have an idea for the background of the group?
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DeleteLook up a painting called "A Prayer at Vally Forge," its one of my favorites!
DeleteI think I sorta got it...
DeleteIs this the picture?
ReplyDeleteYES!! prefect!
DeleteGreat! :D
DeleteWow. This is impressive Matthew!!!
ReplyDeleteCan we finish deciding what events we are going to have? The quicker we do that, the more time we'll have to spend on everything else. :)
ReplyDeleteThis is awesome, Matthew! :)
ReplyDeleteI sent out the general email just to let you all know.
Thanks!
ReplyDeleteSure Katie. Who wants to come up with a list of events? From there we can discuss what to change.
Hey everyone! Lissy and I were talking, and we thought that our story should be written from the perspective of children. Our original idea was to have a brother and sister with their english friend/cousin. All three of these characters would be fictional, but after doing a little research, Lissy found this web sight, http://allthingsliberty.com/2013/04/young-people-at-war/ . This gives an idea of the role an American child might have had during the war. The first boy, Joseph Plumb Martin, could be used as one of the main historical characters, our story would follow him through the battles he fought in. To give a feel for the life people lived in occupied towns, we could introduce two fictional girls: an American girl with her English cousin/friend. We could arrange a meeting between the them, or just create two separate stories with parallels.
ReplyDeleteThere are several stories of women spies during the war that could be included, and there is no shortage of stories of brave men. This is just an idea that we could play around with! :)
Okay, the link didn't work, I guess you'll just have to copy and past! Sorry! :O
DeleteThat is not a bad idea! Although, if you go to the website, it says that he joined the war a year later. If we want to have the first events, we either have to tweak the story, or find someone else who started from the beginning.
DeleteYeah I think we can tweak the story a bit.
DeleteHey Guys!
ReplyDeleteMax Pointer has agreed to be the narrator for our project! He is very talented at this type of thing and I think he would be an amazing narrator. Let me know if this works for all of you.
Yay! :D It works for me.
Deletethat's great. he will be awesome
Deletedoes anyone have a part that they were thinking about doing? if you do please let all of us know so we can get started
If I could do Paul Revere/ Lexington and Concord that would be great? If anyone else wanted to do this, I would be fine with doing something like where they train, which would also be cool. Yeah
DeleteI think it would be awesome if we did the Battle of Lexington and Concord from the eyes of both the English soldiers and the Colonial soldiers. How the English viewed it, and how the Colonials viewed it.
DeleteYeah I was thinking that too.
DeleteI would love to do the Boston Tea Party? But if anyone else has their heart set on that I can switch. :)
ReplyDeleteI would love to do Either Bunker Hill or Trenton. If someone wants one of them ill take the other, it doesn't matter which of the 2 I take. 😃
ReplyDeleteI'll do Bunker Hill or the Battle of Lexington and Concord from one point of view if that works for everyone :)
DeleteOk, I will take Trenton then.
DeleteJohnna, can you do the Lexington/Concord battle from the view of the Americans? And then you can do like a story scene. And I will then get Paul Revere and the English view? Does that work for everyone?
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DeleteWhat were the 12 events we are going to cover?
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ReplyDeleteI thought of another idea for our project that may be easier to do as a group. In each episodes (chapters) we could have reporter/s that could go on both sides of the war (i.e. loyalists or patriots). These reporter/s would be fictional characters. Here is a rough example of how it might look like:
ReplyDelete(Setting: Crossing the Delaware River on Christmas Eve)
Reporter: We are right now at the Delaware River. Let me try to talk to someone. Hello, young soldier. What's all the commotion? Why are you crossing the river on this frigid night?
Soldier 1: General Washington is having us cross this cold river to try attack the British army.
Soldier 2: They're not going to know what hit them!
.................(conversation continues for a bit can describe more of the attack plan that Washington created)....
Reporter: That is quite a clever plan. Let's check what's going on across the river. Charles (reporter), what is happening in the British camp?
Charles: It looks like they are having a grand time, celebrating Christmas and clearing their minds of the war.
...........................
Some things we need to decide:
If we use this idea we will have to decide if we have the same reporters in each episode
If we do have the same reporters then we need to create a "story board" for their characters. (Character traits)
We also need a theme(thread) that brings all of our episodes together. (Ex. Independence, search for freedom, who really won the war (every event claims to be the one that wins the war but really it is all the events that won the war), search for liberty, forgiveness, team work)
We need to remember that whatever we end up doing needs to be simple and easy to tie together. We have 12 different people needing to each make their own script and we have to write our rough drafts soon. We will need to talk about everything at lunch this coming Wednesday so that we can be ready to write our drafts that week. What do you guys think? Hope what I said made sense!
Okay, so I made a list of possible topics (This is basically the headers for the sections in the history textbook) pg. 105-131:
ReplyDelete1. Boston Tea Party
2. Paul Revere/ Shot heard ‘round the world (battles of Lexington and Concord)
3. Bunker Hill
4. Trenton/Princeton
5. Brandywine
6. Saratoga (This is an important battle/campaign but I don't know if its long enough for a whole chapter, maybe we could just stick it in somewhere.)
7. Vally Forge (this would include the army training)
8. Monmouth
9. War in the West
10. War in the South (this looks long, but I think certain things can be cut out)
11. Cowpens
12. Cornwallis Surrender/Treaty of Paris
These are just my ideas, we don't have to use these, but we just need to get some suggestions out there. :)
Great list! Some other ones we could add could be:
DeleteSecond Continental Congress Meets and the Battle of Quebec which is after the Battle of Bunker Hill
I would really love to do the Boston Tea Party...
Delete..if that doesn't work than I could do Monmouth..
..if that doesn't work than I will do whatever is left.. :)
I would like to do Cornwallis Surrender/Treaty of Paris if that is still possible.
ReplyDeleteI would like to do valley forge or Trenton if that works:)
ReplyDeleteOk, I compiled a list of what people are doing, using Grace's list of events:
ReplyDelete1. Boston Tea Party - Grace Pointner
2. Paul Revere/ Shot heard ‘round the world (battles of Lexington and Concord) - Katie (English), Johnna (American
3. Bunker Hill - Matthew Oh (Colonial), ? (English)
4. Trenton/Princeton - Lissy Rienow
5. Brandywine
6. Saratoga (This is an important battle/campaign but I don't know if its long enough for a whole chapter, maybe we could just stick it in somewhere.)
7. Vally Forge (this would include the army training)
8. Monmouth - Elizabeth
9. War in the West
10. War in the South (this looks long, but I think certain things can be cut out)
11. Cowpens
12. Cornwallis Surrender/Treaty of Paris - Grace James
This is just a basic, we can easily edit it. Even the whole thing, with who wants what. ;)
A lot of you had 2 different ones, I put up one of the 2, but if you decided that you really don't want that one, just tell me. ;D Or just copy, and paste the edited list, whatever works.
We need to decide on a character list.
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DeleteI think we first have to decide how many main characters we are going to include, which ones are English and American, and weather their girls or boys.
DeleteCould I do Valley Forge?
ReplyDeleteYes guys we really need to decide on the characters and general story line. This is what Mr. Parker said on the blog:
ReplyDeleteYour Documentary Proposal should include the following information:
1. Time period and location
2. Character list
3. A paragraph description of the plot arc
Because we each need a paragraph of what our chapter's plots are going to be, we sort of need an overarching story line for the whole thing.
DeleteWe could all think of one then compare them, or one person would write the general idea...idk. If you need a person to write the general story line then I could try, I'm just not sure I could have it done by Wednesday.
Here's kinda what we need for the story line:
DeleteStasis
Trigger
The quest
Surprise
Critical choice
Climax
Reversal
Resolution
one person should write the story line. Your also right it would be very difficult to have it completed by class.
DeleteI was wondering if we could ask Mr. Parker if we could meet during lunch to figure out the character list, I think something like that could be hard to do via blog... just a thought.
DeleteYour right we should ask.
DeleteJust in case someone checks this before their email:
ReplyDeleteHey everyone,
I am emailing instead of writing on the blog because it looks like not everyone has had a chance to participate in our conversation about our documentary projects via blog. Our proposal for the documentary is due this Wed. None of us can complete it if we don't all work together. It sounds like we need more time to talk as a group since it is too difficult to do this via email or blog. We also need more time to plan everything out since we thought that all we had to do this week was give our topic. I agree with Johanna about making a over arching story line (ie. a theme like I talked about in one of my posts on the blog). Personally, I don't think that one person should take the brunt of the work to write the over arching story line.
Should I contact Mr. Parker and ask if we can talk at lunch to get story line and characters written out and get an extension for our proposals? Please reply to all ASAP!!!
Thanks!
Grace J.
Sorry I wasn't at Grace's on Sunday! I arrived later than expected and was wiped out. Does anyone have notes from it that they could post on the blog?
ReplyDeleteJohnna Forth is going to post her notes, I don't remember if she is going to post it on the blog, or email though.
DeleteIn bold italics are important things that each chapter will include according to the meeting yesterday.
ReplyDeleteHere it is:
1.Boston Massacre/Boston Tea Part: Start- Flashback to Massacre
Finish- Going to enlist
* Introduces William and Jed
2. Paul Revere/Battles of Lexington and Concord: Start- Enlisting
Finish- Realization of war
* Meet Lieutenant Sharp
3. Bunker Hill: Start- Jed flashback/middle of battle
Finish- Washington coming/introduced
* Introduces George Washington * William wounded
4. Trenton and Princeton: Start- Marching in snow w/ troops
Finish- Washington’s announcement
5. Brandywine: Start- Arrival, fortification
Finish- Departure from battle
6. Saratoga: Start- Middle of battle
Finish- Leaving Saratoga
7. Valley Forge: Start- Marching through winter storm
Finish- End of training/private moment
8. Monmouth: Start- Washington giving orders
Finish- Jed reflecting on Molly Pitcher
9. War in the West: Start- William reporting to Captain
Finish- ??
10. War in the South: Start- ??
Finish- ??
11. Cowpens: Start- Middle of battle action
Finish- Race to the Dan
12. Victory at Yorktown: Start- Setting up artillery
Finish- Singing of treaty
This is all I caught from my notes. So, again, if something is different, please let everyone know! :)
Also, here are our fictional characters:
Jed Martin- American- stereotype teenager- self-reliant- vulnerable- rough- selfish
William Maxwell- American- stereotype leader- indecisive?- too sacrificial- short
Lieutenant Daniel Sharp
Would it be alright if I focused on one or two battles of the War in the South? For example, starting with Charleston and ending with the "Swamp Fox" Francis Marion.
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