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Colonial Life
My name is Samantha Baker. I am 12 years old and I live in Connecticut. I live with my mother Susan, Father Jeffery, 6 siblings: Becky, Taylor, Elizabeth, Thomas, Williams, and Charles, my aunt Mary and Uncle Robert, and my wonderful grandmother. My family and I live in the farming part of Connecticut and it was always very fun and makes it easier for us to get the supplies we need to make a living. During the day I go to school. It is 15 minutes away from my house to it’s easy to go back and forward. Father says that my siblings and I are very lucky that we get to go to school because in other colonies public school isn’t allowed.

My family is a middle class family. My father and uncle sells things that we make on the farm and my mother and aunt help make the things and they also do the house work. My grandmother can’t do much because she is getting old, so she mostly just sits in her chair making us clothing to wear. I love having all my siblings because I never get bored. My sister Becky is 4, Taylor is 7, and Elizabeth is 13. Thomas is 14, William is 5, and Charles is 10. After we get back from school we usually help our family with different things around the house. When we’re not at school or helping out we play around the farm and with the animals which is a lot of fun.

I really do like living in the colonies because there’s always something to do. When my family first moved here I was 6 years old so I’ve lived most of my life here. I don’t remember much about England I just remember the trouble trip here that took what seemed like forever. I remember asking my mother why we were moving because I didn’t want to leave England and she said it was because we were going to have a better life here and that we would be happier. This all turned out true!

Education is very important to my family and I because we want to learn how to read God’s word (the Bible). This is very important in our religion, Puritan, because we want to know what God is teaching us and how we should live our live similar to how Jesus did when he came to Earth. My family and I go to church every Sunday morning. Everyone in the town goes to church because it is very important to us that God is protecting us and teaching us new things every day. Our church services are held in a place in town called the meetinghouse. The longest church service lasted 5 hours. After church we go back to our daily life’s, but sometimes there is a time where we sit by the church fire and eat and talk about things that are going on in town in the afternoon.

Part 1: Father says that something horrible is going on in New York. That the British are coming back to get us all. So he’s leaving tomorrow to go help out and he’s going to leave us with my uncle to take care of us. I really don’t want him to leave, but he says he has to if we still want to live here and have a good life. We have to stay here on the farm with mom, uncle Robert, aunt Mary, and all my siblings. Mother is very upset, but agreed to let Father go because in the end it’s going to be better for our family and everyone is going to be much happier. Before Father left he promised me that he would write me a letter every time he could to let us know how he’s doing and the news.

Revolution
· Some families burned all there wheat so when the British came to Saratoga nothing would be useful for them. (93)  · On December 25, 1776 Washington’s army crossed the frozen Delaware River in their small boats. (92)  · “Victory or Death” ~Washington (92) · The American got the Hessians sleeping on Christmas and took 868 prisoners without the lose of any of Washington’s men. (92)  · A week later the American troops captured another 300 British troops in New Jersey. (92)
 * Source:** History Alive: Hart, Diane. "The American Revolution." //History alive!// . Palo Alto, Calif.: Teachers' Curriculum Institute, 2005. 93. Print.
 * Topic:** A Pep Talk and Surprise Victories: Victory in Trenton
 * Research:**

· Fought from 3/29/1780 to 12/29/1778 On the battle of 12/29/1778 Great Britain had a force of 3100 men and the US colonies only had a force of 850 men. · 7 Great Britain troops were killed and 17 wounded while 83 of the Colonist troops got killed and 11 wounded. · None of the troops of Great Britain were captured and 453 of the US colonies troops were captured, leaving 767 US troops alive and only 314 men able to go back.
 * Source:** "The American Revolution - (Battles)." //The American Revolution - (Home)//. N.p., n.d. Web. 17 Nov. 2010. .
 * Topic:** The American Revolution - Battles
 * Research:**

__HFC American Revolution – Freytag’s Pyramid__
 * Exposition:** Dad goes out into war. Still on the farm with Samantha’s siblings when dad leaves to go to war to fight for there rights as colonist. Goes back and forth between Samantha on the farm and the letters that she gets from her father in war. Tell her about what’s happening and gives the family updates on how he’s doing and when he is coming home.


 * Rising action:** Dad goes out into the war and family starts to worry about how they are going to live without the help of the dad. Uncle has to start doing the business on he’s own because now he doesn’t have the help of the dad. Winter starts to come and since the family makes their money off of the stuff they make and sell on the farm they have to start collecting and growing more crops because winter is coming. They keep receiving letter’s from the dad and news from what going on.


 * Climax:** Winter is here and the family starts to worry more about winter coming and without the help of the dad they made less things and started to make less money and the children had to start helping more around the house and the boys had to start helping the uncle more and more and the girls had to help the mother and aunt with making the different foods and helping more around the house. One day Samantha sends a letter to her day and she doesn’t receive one back and the whole family starts to worry that something happened.


 * Falling action:** Winter is here and Samantha and her siblings are suffering with not having a father around. The mother is getting very scared and doesn’t know is she can take living without her husband any longer. The uncle and aunt try to help out with the most that they can, but they have a baby coming on the way and they are starting to worry they won’t have the things they need to have the things for the baby. Samantha and her siblings start to see how much this is effecting their family, them being such a close family and want to do something about it. They start to help more around the house and now even the girls are helping out with the farm to make more money for the family. Now that the aunt is pregnant it’s going to be harder around the house with her not being able to do much.


 * Denouement/resolution:** Winter passes and the family still doesn’t have any news about the father. Finally one day a letter comes in the mail from one of the father’s solider friends. It says that he had to been hurt in war and had a very large chance of dying because they didn’t have the things they needed to treat what had happened to his arm and leg. Weeks later they see their dad being coming up the street coming to their farm all bruised and hurt and had his ankle and arm wrapped. The father is finally home and all of the family is happy again and taking care of the dad. A week later the aunt goes into labor and gives birth to a baby boy. They decide to name him after the father to remember what he did to help gain freedom from the British and help us become a free country. (All of the story will be told from Samantha’s point of view.)

Time of when the Revolution is starting - 1775 Keeps going on for a year - until 1776