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Colonial Life
Roger Smith It was a warm and sunny day in Georgia as Roger Smith helped his family tend to their farm. After helping his parents, he walked to school. Roger’s school was a group of the neighborhood children who met at a kid’s house. The parents hired the teacher. Once he came home from school, he immediately went back to tending the needs of the farm. After his chores were done, he would either play with his tops and marbles or play with local kids that lived around him. He would play games with the local children, which included tag, blind man’s bluff, and stool ball. After he was finished playing, he would eat dinner, which would consist of either corn mush or cakes, dried meat (hunted or raised), and stews with vegetables and meat. Soon after dinner, Roger would climb into an attic/ loft in which he slept with his closest aged siblings. This was his usual routine although on Sundays he would attend a Puritan church service that would last for a majority of the day. Roger’s parents decided to come to the New World because his father was put in debtor’s prison. While his father was in prison, he heard that the family could come to America without paying for transportation. They thought coming to the New World would help them and their children restart their lives. This is what brought Roger, his parents and his eight brothers and two sisters to the colony of Georgia.

Revolution


 * Topic= Battle of Trenton**


 * Resource 1**: Hart, Diane. History Alive: The United States Through Industrialism. Palo Alto CA: Teachers’ Curriculum Institute, 2005.

 George Washington read this quote to the men before they went in battle “These are the times that try men’s souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands it NOW, deserves the love and thanks of man and women” (Hart 92). The quote Washington was written by Thomas Paine On Christmas Washington’s men crossed the cold Delaware River in small boats to reached the camped British in Trenton Gave password to long march “Victory or Death”.

**Resource 2**: "The American Revolution - (The Battle of Trenton )." The American Revolution - (Home). TheAmericanRevolution.org, n.d. Web. 9 Nov. 2010. < [] > Battle of Trenton: Thursday, December 26,1776 It was fought in Trenton, New Jersey British Info= Commander Johann Rall. Force 1520. Killed 22. Wounded 86. Captured 906. American Info= Commander George Washington. Force 2400. Killed 2. Wounded 5. Captured 0. Weather was 20˚ F and Cloudy.  “ This victory was essential to give the soldiers hope that a group of rag-tag soldiers could indeed be victorious in their struggle for independence.” Rall was shot on his horse.

**Resource 3**: Valis, Glen. "The Battle of Trenton." The Home page of Glenn and Georgeanne Valis. N.p., 24 Aug. 2003. Web. 15 Nov. 2010. < [] > Battle of Trenton: <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">“Col. John Fitzgerald wrote at 6 PM as the troops started across: It is fearfully cold and raw and a snowstorm is setting in. The wind northeast and beats into the faces of the men. It will be a terrible night for those who have no shoes. Some of them have tied only rags about their feet: others are barefoot, but I have not heard a man complain." <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">It was reported that two men froze to death on the walk to fight the British. <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">The fight only lasted 90 minutes.

<span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; letter-spacing: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">The Battle of Trenton
 * 1) <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; letter-spacing: 0px;">Exposition
 * 2) <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; letter-spacing: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Time
 * 3) <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; letter-spacing: 0px; list-style-type: decimal; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Thursday, December 26, 1776
 * 4) <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; letter-spacing: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Place
 * 5) <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; letter-spacing: 0px; list-style-type: decimal; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Trenton, New Jersey
 * 6) <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; letter-spacing: 0px;">Rising Action
 * 7) <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; letter-spacing: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Before we got into the boats crossing the Delaware, our General Washington told us the words of Thomas Paine.
 * 8) <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; letter-spacing: 0px; list-style-type: decimal; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">“These are the times that try men’s souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands it NOW, deserves the love and thanks of man and women”
 * 9) <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; letter-spacing: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">We landed in Trenton New York and started the long cold walk to the British camp.
 * 10) <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; letter-spacing: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">2 men died on the walk and sadly, one of them was my best friend, John.
 * 11) <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; letter-spacing: 0px; list-style-type: decimal; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Roger worries about having to tell John’s parents about their son’s death.
 * 12) <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; letter-spacing: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">The fight started with one single shot.
 * 13) <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; letter-spacing: 0px;">Climax
 * 14) <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; letter-spacing: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">We are massacring the British group of soldiers which consists of German Hessians. The Hessians were hired mercenaries.
 * 15) <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; letter-spacing: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Roger shot the British Commander Johann Rall off of his horse while the commander was gathering his men together to fight against the American army.
 * 16) <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; letter-spacing: 0px;">Falling Action
 * 17) <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; letter-spacing: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">We surrounded the British and herded them like the sheep Roger used to have at the farm before we killed them for the meat.
 * 18) <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; letter-spacing: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">We captured 906 of the 1,520 men they had with our 2,400 men.
 * 19) <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; letter-spacing: 0px;">Denouement
 * 20) <span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; letter-spacing: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Roger celebrates with his fellow soldiers about their minimal loss of men and the victory, although he worried about having to take John's body and the news of his death to John’s family.

<span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; letter-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px;">I think that the most affected area is socially and culturally because many people like Roger had to carry the news of death to the families of the dead.