Last Two Days of School 10/9/12

 On friday, day one, we learned about Paul Revere's ride. We learned the complete story and began to learn some of the key moments of the Revolutionary War time period. We read "Paul Revere's Ride" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. The poem began to show us that some sources aren't exactly accurate. Such as Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem, which puts across the idea that only one rider (Paul Revere) rode to warn Massachusetts of the impending attack; it also made us believe that Paul Revere's ride was glorious and perfect in every way without fault. However, we were then given a sheet of paper giving us the true facts of Paul Reveres's ride in which his horse was slashed by his spurs and he was caught after a slightly successful night to say the least. Today in History we learned about how eyewitness accounts were not at all reliable sources. We watched a thought provoking video about the prior statement I made that proves it's point using a crime scene as an example. Then we read some articles from different soldiers' (both British and American) accounts of the shot heard around the world in Lexington and Concord, and had to decide if they were accurate or not. In most cases the eyewitness reports proved to be inaccurate. That was the summary of two days of school in Mr.Boyle's E period class.