Monday, June 16, 2008

Plan

I plan on doing a spell check and some more genres and edit the ones i have

Tuesday, June 10, 2008

statment of process

This was a very succssesful project for me. I only hade a little to do on thursday. I am thankful to mrs. Sackstein. She helped me alot in the planing of every thing.

At first I was on track. Then I got lazy. I wanted to be finished with it the wednsday before the project but that didnt work out. I only hade three post left on thursday.

Thursday, June 5, 2008

Reflection

This was for sure the best project ever. I like how it was a mix of everything and it was all electronic. The fact that we could also choose what we wanted to work on was the best. I new that i had to make this a thing I would like So i would do good. My favorite part was making a video. The most challenging Thing was I was having many technical problems so I had to work around that. I think I did really good with my time. I finished more then half be for Thursday like i planed. I also plan on doing something creative for my presentation.

Bibliography

www.mainehistory.info/history.html
Title-Breaif History Of Maine
Author-Jim Brunelle

The New Nation
Author-Joy Hakim, Oxford University Press
Published-New York, 2005
Chapter 3 Pages 117-118

http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi/jb/nation/maine_1

http://www.netstate.com/states/intro/me_intro.htm
Author-nsate
Last updated-June 10 2007

http://www.shgresources.com/me/timeline/
Last updated-2008

American Past and Present 270
Published-New York

http://www.puzzle-maker.com/CW/

http://www.variety-games.com/CW/Puzzles/1082724241-puzzle.htm

I am sorry there not in order.

Maine VS Massachusetts

In this video my brother and me are debating Maine like the Mac and PC commercials. I only had a 20 sec time limit on the camera so that's why its so short

Map




Dear journal

Dear journal

This is a great experience living hear. I love my new school. I is cool being able to make things and not learning to deal with what you have. My dad made his own print shop. Its fun to watch him press the papers. My mom even started a mini farm in are yard. I will never leave this place.

June,6,1821

Maine crossword

1
2
3
4
5

ACROSS
2...The 23 state
3...The BLANK paper wrote about the separation
4...The state that us to own Maine
5...The law that separated Maine from Massachusetts

DOWN
1...Penned in 1776

Cartoon




Monday, June 2, 2008

Maine Time Line

1819 - Massachusetts agrees to allow Maine to protest for statehood.

1820 - Maine becomes its own state.
Maine becomes the first state to school privileges to all regardless of race.

1839 - Governor fair field declares war on England over a border between New Brunswick and northern Maine. The argument was settled before any blood was shed.

1842 - the Treaty of 1842 settled the Maine and New Brunswick border

1851 - Harriet Beecher Stowe began writing Uncle Tom's Cabin in Brunswick, Maine. it was a novel.
1866 - A great fire destroys much of downtown Portland in the area now known as the Old Port.
1888 - Melville W. Fuller, a native of Maine, became the Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme court.
1898 - U.S. Battleship "Maine" is sunk in Havana Harbor, an incident which helps trigger the Spanish-American War. "Remember the Maine" became a war slogan