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Colonial Life
Marc Gleckman 9/23/10 2˚ history

Sean McBride Sean McBride was born in 1756, and was raised by only a father, on a farm, in west Massachusetts. Along with four brothers, he farmed and planted corn, wheat and cotton. Sean was only 15 when he started to work as a lumberjack, by then so much had happened in his life that he became a little delusional and would react strangely to anything that moved in the lumber grounds. He is short only 5’2, with orange hair, and a long beard, overalls and torn up dress down shirt. He was clearly not the proper English gentleman. After 5 years of being a lumberjack and encountering bears, foxes, wolves he decided to bring a musket to the lumber grounds, for safety reasons. Unfortunately a lot of his fellow lumberjacks would pull pranks on him because they knew he was delusional, because of that he accidentally shot 3 of them by accident. This brought him to a fine of $1,500 dollars! Since he couldn’t pay it since he was the lower class he, “Ran from the Law” This forced him to turn to a life of crime, which forced him to move to Rhode island (AKA, the criminal colony). He got a partner in crime named Samuel Adams and together they would rob small shops, people and houses. He finally ended up with $5,000 in cash but had a $4,000 dollar bounty he was very tempted to turn himself in, but luckily his partner in crime convinced him not to.

Revolution
**Source:** Phillips, John. "American Revolution." //Wikipedia//.Web. []

**Topic:** Pre war debate “At the time, revolutionaries were called "Patriots", "Whigs", "Congress-men", or "Americans". They included a full range of social and economic classes, but a unanimity regarding the need to defend the rights of Americans” (Phillips).

People in the colonies could range from a very high place in the economic classes to very low place, but they all are considered all equal when defending the rights of America.

** Source: ** Spier, Peter. "The Minutemen - Paul Revere & The Battle of Concord and Lexington." //American Revolution// n. pag. Web. 10 Nov 2010. .

“In New England the men began arming themselves. They were called Minutemen because they could be ready to fight in a minute.” (Spier).

Minutemen were just the people of the colonies; they could get prepared to fight in just 60 seconds.

Minutemen stole guns and ammo from the British, and used them to their advantage.

Marc Gleckman P.2 History HFC story plot

I. Exposition 1. Sean continues his life as a criminal a. Develops southern accent b. Partner in crime arrested and interrogated c. Cops are now aware of who Sean McBride is. d. Sean buys fastest horse in all of Rhode Island “Zippy” II. Rising Action 1. Tries robbing British clothing store a. Put’s knife to cashiers throat b. Yells: “ I don’t need no suit and tie, I need money!” III. Crisis A. While running out of store, cashier takes out a musket and shoots Sean in the leg IV. Climax 1. Makes it on to his horse, Zippy just in time before the British merchant can fire another shot at Sean. 2. 10 seconds later he fires a shot at Sean’s horse and hits it in the right leg a. The horse falls over and crushes Sean, he is in too much pain to get up. b. Merchant catches up to Sean and says “I got no right to let you live, so I might as well kill you right now... This tea act is not doing me no good, in fact it’s ruining my life! No money comes in and all of it goes out. Since you ruined my shop, I am going to ruin your life!” 3. Merchant picks up musket and aims directly at his left eye a. A split second before the Merchant is able to fire the shot, a person Sean has never seen before tackles the Merchant to the ground! 1. The man punches the Merchant in the face until he is knocked out. 2. 6 more men show up and they lift the horse off of Sean.

4. Strangers say they are colonists and they are revolting, and they want to make a deal with Sean 5. A small man in the group of six steps forward and says, “We won’t turn you in, as long as you give us some money to help our revolt and join our team.”. A. Sean states, "You bloody colonists, how do I know that I can trust you?" 1. colonists reply "We saved your life, from that british merchant, so give us some respect and shell out a couple bucks?" 2. Sean gives out $200 to colonists 3. colonists respond, "thank you sir! now grab this gun, we need some extra firepower at lexington!" <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 1in; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px; text-indent: -0.25in;">4. Sean is confused, so he follows the colonists until they into battle and the colonists win.

V. Falling Action 1.The battle of lexington and concord is over and Sean is still uneasy about the fact he was robbed and forced to join the military. 2. During his second battle he realizes that no matter his state in economy or social class, when fighting for your freedom you are all one and that his state of economy or social class vanish and all that matters is that they win their freedom. VI. Denouement 1. Sean is now a part of Colonists revolting team.

Theme: I want the reader to see that trust is a key factor for respect, kindness and honor.

Story parts: Exposition and Rising action and crisis

Marc Gleckman 2˚ history HFC part 1

Story parts: Exposition and Rising action and crisis

Sean McBride and the American revolution

It’s been 15 years since Sean McBride was a major threat to society in the colonies. As time passes and king George III has passed series of taxations, which make the colonies protest. Right now King George has just passed the Declitory act and the colonist are starting to get infuriated. During this time Sean has gone through a couple major chapters of his life, including his partner I crime got interrogated and arrested. Sean is now known of and alone, he also bought a horse named Zippy; the fastest racehorse in all of Rhode Island. Today is July 8th and Sean is going to rob a British clothing store and steal the money in the register. Sean kicks open the door and yells, “Okay, everybody scram! shoo, get out!”. The people in the clothing store are too afraid to get out of the store so he picks up a silver pocket watch and throws it right the at window! The window fragments into a million pieces and leaves the floor covered with skin piercing broken glass. The people in the store run out of the store and cower in fear on the sidewalk. The Merchant quietly says, “our..our most ex…ex… expensive suit is o…over there!” he pointed to the east left side of the shop. Sean pulled out a knife and said, “Look here now, I don’t need no suit and tie! I need money!” The Merchant opened the cash register and pulled $400 and handed it to Sean. “I will get…get you back for this!” Sean took off like a bullet and ran back to the door, but the Merchant was prepared for something like this to happen and quickly pulled out his musket from under the desk! The cashier was able to shoot Sean in the right leg before Sean was able to get out the door and he fell to the ground. He was able to get up, and limp to his horse Zippy in the nick of time because many the Merchant just missed Sean with his second shot!

Marc Gleckman 12/8/10 HFC part 2 Story parts: Climax

Sean was just shot in the leg and had just barely made it to his horse, Zippy before the Merchant was able to fire another shot at Sean. Sean, feeling victorious and triumphant started to gallop away on his horse, not taking the precaution that the Merchant still had another bullet! Sean heard the shot from 150 meters away and before he had time to react, his horse stood on it hind legs and Sean came toppling over! The shot landed right in the back of the horse’s leg, and then came falling like a building on top of Sean! Sean tried to scoot away form the falling horse but it was to late! The horse came down and landed on Sean with bone-crushing force! Sean passed out moments after the horse landed on him. Sean wasn’t able to wake up until the Merchant came and gave him a kick in the face. The kick broke Sean’s nose but he wasn’t able to yell in agony, the words wouldn’t come out of his mouth! The merchant put his foot on Sean’s stomach, and yelled with anger, “I got no right to let you live, so I might as well kill you right now... This intolerable acts are not doing me no good, in fact it’s ruining my life! No money comes in and all of it goes out. Since you ruined my shop, I am going to ruin your life!”. He took his musket and aimed right at his left eye, Sean closed his eyes and took a deep breath. The shot was heard from a mile away, crowds cried with fear. Sean didn’t feel a thing and he was certain he was dead.

Marc Gleckman 12/15/10 HFC part 3 Story parts: falling action and denouement

He opened his eyes and saw random man in a blue coat beating the Merchant with a club! A group of six people wearing blue coats walked up to Sean and lifted the horse off of him. A short man walked out of crowd and said, “We won’t turn you in, as long as you give us some money to help our revolt and join our team,” “You bloody colonists! How could I trust you?” Sean replied. The short man said, “Because I am your brother.” Sean looked at the man, and realised that it had been at least 25 years since he had seen him. Sean's brother had grown not only in hight, but in strength. His face had become more pronounced and Sean no longer looked like his brother. After looking at his brother, Sean started to say, “It’s been so many years! How are-” before he could finish, Sean’s brother said, “Forget that! Take this musket! We need some more firepower at Lexington! But before you do that,” Sean's brother held back the musket for a second. "The money comes first,", Sean stood up and handed out $200 dollars of the $400 he had before. Sean’s brother yelled, “Let’s go men!” and off the group of seven, including Sean left out to battle. Sean only fired a couple shots while at the battle, he was too amazed of seeing his brother for the first time that he wasn't paying attention! Fortunately he left the battle un-injured and so as his fellow blue coats.