Learning+log

August 24, 2009: Today I signed up for the expert topic about the French contribution in the war. I went to a website about the [|French contribution] in the war, and learned several things i didn't know about such as, how the colonists got their weapons and other supplies from rich Frenchmen such as the Marquis de Lafayette. And i have started a wiki page about it. August 26, 2009: Today i took notes about the Encomienda system, Joint-stock companies, Jamestown, and John Rolfe. I am going to start a wiki about it. I also finished my wiki about the French contribution in the war. August 28, 2009: Today i took notes about the Plymouth colony, Pequot war, Boston, and put a link to site i got my information on the French onto the class wiki page. August 28, 2009: I watched an hour long video about a man named Moyl in a handcart company that got to the Salt Lake valley, and became a stonemason on the Salt Lake temple for 20 years. September 1, 2009: I researched information about the articles of conferderation and the Federalists papers. September 3, 2009: i read about general Banastre Tarleton, and his campaign in the south during the revolutionary war, where he became the most hated man in the British army. link to site: [|Tarleton] September 8, 2009: Today i read the discussion between the Governor and Anne Huchitson for research on my test questions. September 10,2009: I took notes on Colonialism, Mercantilism, Salutary Neglect, ect, and i began research on the expert group topic: Temperance. September 14, 2009: i took notes on Salem witch trial, Ben Franklin, George Washington, religous freedom. September 16, 2009: i wrote down stuff on my wiki about Carry nation and Temperance September 18,2009: i continued reading about temperance September 22, 2009: took notes about: sons of liberty, intolorable acts, ect. September 24,2009: took notes on common sense, lexington and concord, and the enlightnenment October 1, 2009: took notes about the revolutionary war, declaration of independence, and valley forge October 13, 2009: i took a lot of notes on constitutional convention and jays treaty October 19,2009: i took notes on, War of 1812, National Bank, Whiskey Rebellion, and the Luisiana Purchase October 27, 2009: i finished my test questions 2 and 3 November 3, 2009: typed notes about the southern states between 1700 and 1850 November 9, 2009: i typed notes about the American system ect... November 13, 2009: i typed notes about the West November 23, 2009: looked for a topic to do my documentary on, and found one, a battle in the revolutionary war. November 30, 2009: i took notes on the Pearl incident, comprimise of 1850, ect... december 10, 2009: i took notes on Homesteading, Immagration, and ellis island december 14, 2009: i played the lawer in the mystery case thing and answered the questions about it december 16, 2009: i looked up the Lincoln Johnson reconstruction and learned that when the construction started life was much better for the blacks of America but after the reconstruction stopped life for the Blacks went back to how it was before just without slavery because of racist whites in the south. This was when the Ku Klux Klan started, a group of white people that were extremely racist and killed and beat many black people. december 22, 2009: i put in more pictures for my movie and timed the transition for the slides