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Colonial Life
I am Victoria Rose Adams and I am 8 years old. I live in Virginia with my mother, stepfather, 3 stepsiblings and 5 other brothers and sisters. We all live on my stepfather’s tobacco plantation in a large house near a small town. My private teacher teaches me most days and after school I rarely play with other kids in the town. But I always love to play with my cousins when my aunts and uncles come over. My mother once told me that my real father had died when I was 5 from a sickness that also took 2 of my siblings. Now my stepfather owns my fathers store in North Carolina but he’s trying to sell it because we don’t need or want it while we are in Virginia. Once I was talking with my cousin asked my why I moved from England and came here. Later that night I had asked my mother and stepfather why they came and my stepfather said he came to expand profit and my mother said that my real father came for the same reason. But my mother said that she had to leave to escape dept and she had to leave the rest of her family behind. But I think that life is quieter now and the land is pretty and calm.

Revolution
Ciara Balfour  period 5 U.S. History The American Revolution  11-9-10

 Topic: The War Goes South  Source: Hart, Diane, and Bert Bower.History alive!: the United States through industrialism. Palo Alto, Calif.: Teachers' Curriculum Institute, 2011. Print.  - 1710 Washington sent General Nathaniel Greene to slow the British down from getting to the south  - The army was to small to meet in a major battle  - Would fight then get beaten then rise and fight again  -1781 Lord Charles Cornwallis moved troops to a tobacco port in Yorktown Virginia  - British failed at winning the north  - moved to control south  - thought that thousands of loyalists lived in south  Topic: The End - Cornwallis and the soldiers walked in to a trap that Washington set with help of the french warships - American and French troops lined up along the road of Yorktown with civilians looking on - Cornwallis wasn’t there and claimed he was ill

 Topic: The Battle of Yorktown <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;"> Source: "The American Revolution - (Battles)." The American Revolution - (Home). N.p., n.d. Web. 22 Nov. 2010. <http://www.theamericanrevolution.org/battles.aspx>. - “...Battle of Yorktown in 1781 was a decisive victory by combined assault of American forces led by General <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;"> George Washington and French forces...” - Led to negotiation of end of war - had 20600 soldiers fighting for the U.S. Colonies - created 2 large trenches to shoot from <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;"> - Cornwallis hoped British ships would come for help but didn't <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;"> Topic: American revolution overview <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;"> Source: "The American Revolution - (Battles)." The American Revolution - (Home). N.p., n.d. Web. 22 Nov. 2010. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;"> <http://www.theamericanrevolution.org/battles.aspx>. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;"> - "French ships then moved into the Chesapeake Bay, near Yorktown". <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;"> - Spain joined the rebel against the British with the French and Americans

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• <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Exposition: Yorktown, Virgnia, 1781, Cornwallis’s troops are resting on a tobacco port in Yorktown near the protagonist, Victoria Rose Adams’s home. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">• Rising Action: Victoria Sneaks by woods to see favorite/oldest brother fight in part of battle Yorktown. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">• Crisis: Hid behind a tree when a misaimed gun fired and hits her arm. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">• Climax: Crawls back home and frightens every one and arm must be amputated. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">• Falling Action: Goes to see Cornwallis’s troops get run out of Virginia. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">• Dénouement: When family returns home they find an army friend of brother but no brother. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">• Story Theme: Social/ how war affected the families of troops.

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