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I chose this because of all the different materials and possibilities of all the things it can do.
It happened in 1776 during the British and American Revolutionary War. I am going to tell you how bad prisoners’ lives were. Today there are rules about how prisoners must be treated. Back then they didn’t have rules about how prisoners should be treated. Prisoners were kept in abandoned Royal Navy Ships, boats, sugar mills, warehouses, and buildings. Over 5,000 prisoners were captives in New York, and more people died as a prisoner than in war. Prisoners were only given one cup of water a day. How many cups of water each day do you drink? Prisoners were only fed rotten food. I bet you don’t eat rotten food. Prisoners would usually die from sickness and were thrown off the boat or buried along the shore by other prisoners when they died. Today when you die, you either get cremated or you get buried in a graveyard. Life as a prisoner was very hard. Hessians were German soldiers hired by the British to fight the patriots. Hessians were a big problem because they burned down houses and killed people for no reason. Can you imagine if your house was burned down by Hessians? In The Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket, the Baudelaire children’s house gets burned down, but not by the Hessians. In the book Woods Runner, Hessians were the ones that burned down Samuel’s house and killed Anne’s parents and then burned their house. Hessians were cruel and savage. Their behavior was atrocious. Some examples are, they bayoneted unarmed prisoners, they killed children and even infants. I think that is very mean and preposterous. The prisoners were very unpleasant people because they had a horrible time in prison. Maybe they didn’t do any thing that made them go in prison. Today it is the people who arrest or capture a prisoner that must take care of them. Back in 1776, it was the other prisoners who had to take care of the other prisoners. I feel bad for the prisoners because they had a terrible life and didn’t get treated fairly. This was my newspaper story about the Hessians and New York prisons and prisoners during the Revolutionary War.
The environmental goal is to keep the SuAsCo Watershed and everything in it safe and clean. The experience so far has been good. My part is to make graphs based on kids on the hill for my group. A memorable experience from DPC is measuring the hill, counting how many people go up and down, and making graphs. Every time we do something new and learn something in DPC, it makes me understand the goal more. Almost finishing my group’s portfolio, finishing the slides, and making the presentation for the assembly are three major accomplishments of my project. The class project has made a difference by spreading awareness about the watershed. It is important so that they can keep it safe for animals and people. I have made a difference by making graphs for the slides for the assembly presentation that will keep the school aware of the issue of the watershed. I will keep my family informed about this during and after DPC.
The vernal pool was frozen solid and someone took the gauge for the second time and the signs, along with the flags. The river is partly frozen by the outlines of stuff in the river like logs, sticks, and bark. The garden is dead as a doorknob and as abandon as an abandon amusement park. Along with everything in it except for a few things that might be gone next time. We also saw a red squirrel in the bushes. There was a vine that had killed a tree and the vine was left in a weird shape like when you bend something twisty like a bendy straw. Around the remains of the tree and the tree next to it. You couldn’t tell were the edge of the vernal pool was because the flags were out and because the grass and leaves were covering the edges. We couldn’t tell how deep the vernal pool was because the gauge was out and the vernal pool was frozen and probably to hard to break. There were leaves frozen in the vernal pool like a stick frozen in an icicle that can’t come out. Some was just a print of one just like a fossil. There were not that many animals out like the first time we went to the vernal pool when a lot of animals were out and every thing was alive. A lot has changed about the vernal pool like the different measurements, the animals, and the tree that fell down.
The last time we went to the river last week, the water is much lower and clearer. I could see the wet spots on dirt where the water used to be. I could see rocks and mud at the bottom of the river. We went on a very cold yet sunny morning and it was very quiet because nobody else was outside. The playground was empty because no students were outside for recess. It seemed like an abandoned alley. The water is much faster than usual. The river is moving fast, like a guy speeding on a motorcycle. The soil temperature is 18 degrees Fahrenheit. The air temperature is 28 degrees Fahrenheit. When I was writing in my river journal, my legs fell asleep. My legs felt stiff and numb after that when I tried to get up and walk. The water temperature is 20 degrees Fahrenheit. The river is not flooded anymore, unlike the last time Mrs. Erickson took us after gym not on a regular river day. At that time, it was completely flooded. When the flood was over, many branches and grass was torn up and everything looked damp. The river water looks shallow like an almost empty water bottle. There were some ducks upriver, swimming in circles like confused birds. They looked like buoys that were slightly moving and bobbing up and down. This is what I wrote in my river journal at the river the last time I was at the river on a cold sunny day.