Deep Thinking Quote

"Our use of social media for news is selective and intentional so that we so that we may tend to remain interested only in things we are already interested in. On the other hand, professional news outlets, like newspapers, expose readers to information on a broad range of topics. This helps me to see what other people are interested in, or think is important."

Indians in the news

September 27, 1879

Olden Times

A fight on September 14th broke out between some Indians and some young white men from Dallas and Fort Worth, 7 of the white men were killed, and although there isn't much information to go on, it sure seems like the Indian's faults, the information all comes from one of the white kids whose friends were killed

Newspaper

Newspaper homework

Definition: a printed publication (usually issued daily or weekly) consisting of folded unstapled sheets and containing news, feature articles, advertisements, and correspondence.

Newspapers first came into existence in London, the first is believed to have been titled the Oxford Gazette in 1665 and it later turned into the London Gazette when it was brought back into London by the king after the plague.

The first newspaper in America was called the Boston News-Letter and was first published in 1704. It mostly contained European politics and one of it's most popular stories was the tale of Blackbeard.

The New York Times is a very popular newspaper based in New York, and is right now mostly covering the election, water on Mars, and SAT news.

Newspaper of records, or newspapers of public record are usually printed by the government and is used to publish public notices. The New York Times was the first newspaper of record, designated in 1913, now the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and the Washington Post are all newspapers of record.

Newspapers are different than social media as they don't update constantly and take a week to get the new news, this is different than today where you just look every five seconds and something new is up.

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Savages

In this activity we defined savage and savagery, defining respectively as "A member of a people regarded as primitive or uncivilized." and "The condition of being primitive or uncivilized"

Textbook reference

The fact that in the definition savagery is called a condition is terrible, if you haven't been educated or raised in a certain way, that does not make you sick or weird, it just means you weren't raised the same. Indians were described by whites as tall, straight and well formed. Their skin was cinnamon or copper brown, reddish hue, coarse black hair, small snakey eyes, they sometimes painted their faces and bodies with hideous devices. Also they recognize that they are Native Americans, and still call them Indians, but usually they don't even have the decency to do that, in this old textbook they are usually referred to as "savages". If this was my textbook, and they only source of information I had, I would think Indians were crazy people, I would believe that they were savages that just attack everything they see, but luckily I have greater, less biased, sources of information.

1st Quarter Reflections

Ben Justice

                This year I have been introduced to many new things, and also reintroduced to some things. When we were talking about slavery and the Civil War and such, I really thought I knew more than I did. It was actually a lot more gruesome and terrible then I had previously been taught. This makes me feel as if History as a class could be very interesting, although it has been interesting in the past, I believe finding truth in things you thought you knew is very entertaining. I am also very excited to learn about World War II and some other was such as Vietnam and World War I.

 I think one of my areas of strength is my essays; I have grown a new enjoyment in writing essays on topics of interest.  The topics of the West were also very interesting, I thought it was cool and we learned about some gnarly stuff. I’m pretty stoked to see what else you have in store for us because so far this class

 Has been a blast

 From the past

 With a mass of information

And my brain’s been saturatin’

 This new found knowledge of the history’s many mysteries.  

Native American Stickball

Lacrosse was originally called stickball

Played in the Lawrence Valley by the Algonquian Tribe

Later followed by tribes in the east and around the great lakes

Played over several days

The fields were huge open areas, sometimes miles long

It is estimated that games consisted of 100 to 100,000 players, at one time!!

There was only one rule, the ball can’t touch your hand, there were no boundaries or anything

At the start, the ball was thrown into the air and players would race to get it

Originally the balls were wood, but were then replaces with fur wrapped in deerskin

It was played to toughen up young warriors, and recreation and religious reasons

Jean de Brebeuf was a missionary that saw the game being played and named it lacrosse

Interest in lacrosse began to spread in Canada Dr William George Beers started a club, made rules, reduced players, and redefined the stick

By 1860 lacrosse was Canada’s national game and was even played for Queen Victoria, who said “The game is very pretty to watch.”

In 1904 the game was played in the Olympics

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This is a picture of an original lacrosse stick, notice it is all one piece of wood, and there is only a top and one side to the net, one side is empty

This is a modern day lacrosse stick, separate head and stick, and netting, the ball is also rubber now

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