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June 9, 2010 @ 9:57 AM 0 Comments      

This summer i want to have a lot of  friends over this summer and have a lot of fun with them and play outside.I also want to go over to my friends house and play at the park and play on my waterslide with my friends.i would want to get wet and play with toys outside and go camping but i mostly want to hang out with my friends!


May 26, 2010 @ 10:11 AM 0 Comments      

This year was so much fun i like being in Mr.Cosands class. We do so much fun stuff  like we have this thing Mr. cosand showed us its called xtra normal. We have video confrences and we have are own blog. He puts so much stuff thats interesting on his blog like this new thing he put on it is called incredibox you should try it and alsotry inudge. but my school was great!


April 2, 2010 @ 7:31 AM 0 Comments      

“Hercules (chef).” Wikipedia.com. Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., n.d. Web. 29 Mar. 2010. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hercules_(chef).

Decatur, Stephan. Private Affairs of George Washington . Boston: 1933. Print.

Kitchen sisters, . “Hercules and Hemings: Presidents’ Slave Chefs.”npr, 19 Feb. 2008. Web. 30 Mar. 2010. <http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=18950467>.


March 17, 2010 @ 9:30 AM 0 Comments      

 

Hercules was George Washington’s chef and is an enslaved person. He tries not to upset George Washington with making mistakes. If he tried to run he would get his left and right cheek burned.This kitchen at Mount Vernon is where Hercules worked for George Washington.

    This house is the house were Hercules worked for George Washington. Hurcules was probably born around 1755.All appear in the Febuary

Hercules was one of the 9 enslaved people working in Philadalphia presidential household.  His wife Alice died in 1787.He ran away to Virginia and George Wasington everywhere  and no one knows what happened to him.

Hercules was the only one who probably  cotinued all 7 years working in the household of George Washington. 1790 and remained in the household until GW’s last day in March 97,when he ran away from his master.His son Richmond was born in 1777 Evey was born in 1782 and Delia was born in 1785.


March 10, 2010 @ 10:58 AM 0 Comments      

This morning we video confrenced with Can She Trust You. It was fun because we got to ask questions, know peoples jobs and where they were born. I liked it alot because they gave us alot of information about them and they told us who worked the underground railroad. It was so much fun to do it I hope that we get to do more ivc.