You can't think about slavery for more than ten minutes without getting depressed, and if you don't, then you must have some very good reason why the thought of millions of people forced into pitiful lives doesn't make you at least have a twinge of misery.
That was very poetic, was it not? It kind of sums up my thoughts on this unit. Yesterday we watched and took notes from another powerpoint, this time revolving around the Underground Railroad and how many slaves escaped to Canada for a better life. We were given excerpts from several different American history textbooks, about what they had to say on the Underground Railroad. Very different things, as it turns out.
Today, for a change of scenery, we walked down to the library computer lab to read up on the Missouri Compromise, using maps. Even though one of the worksheets wasn't map based ... hmmm ...
As for my thirty day challenge, it hasn't turned out into much of a 'challenge' surprisingly. It's so easy to just walk up to someone and say the first nice thing that pops into your head. Why more people don't do it, I don't know.
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