8th Grade East Coast Trip 2011: 05/22/11

Sunday, May 22, 2011

Ducks!

A celebratory game of Duck, Duck, Goose just broke out at Boston Common. -G

Just after lunch, we stopped at Harvard University and learned the history behind this prestigous school. All student must dorm in their first year and our guide pointed out where Al Gore and JFK roomed. Harvard has the country's 2nd largest library and students used to have to pass a swim test to get a library card. Boston is full of stories surrounding every building and tradition. -G

Hangin at Harvard Square. -G

Fenway

A little stop at Fenway Park, home of the Red Sox. -G

This is the hard rock cafe. It was a lot of fun and the food wasnt half bad

Freedom Trail- Henry

With the red bricks leading the way, we just saw many famous places. It was fun to see Paul Revere's cemetery, the Boston common, and the Old North Church.

This is the second largest library in the US and the world.
it is the library at harvard univesity. By miles

The capitol -Ben H.

The capitol

-Ben H.

A solider at attention -Ben

A solider at attention
-Ben

You can't park your car in Harvard yard. - Henry

When local Bostonians wanted everyone to have education, they made a very small college called Harvard. Today, Harvard is one of the best colleges in the country.

This church is called church court condo. It burned down in 1969. They didn't have the money to replace it but they could protect it. It basically didn't do anything after- lindsey haas

We're waiting in the lobby, ready to leave.

The Red Sox championship banners. -Seth

The Red Sox championship banners.

-Seth

The gift shop revolution! -G

Lexington and Concord

"Let it begin here!" This morning we visited sites of the events on April 15, 1775 that changed the course of American history. A seemingly unintentional battle that intensified throughout this day contains the first casualties in the American Revolution.
After a presentation on the events at the Minuteman Museum, the story and sites visited all came together for us. From the first colonial casualties at the Lexington green and the first two fallen British Regulars to the mass of 4000 colonial militia that brought down an unwelcoming folley on the British retreat along the bay road, the experience here is rich and moving. Even for a teacher, the learning here is more memorable than chapters studied in a textbook.
Pictured are our group at the Lexington green, Minuteman Statue at the green, and our reinactment of the first British casualties at Old North Bridge. -G

This picture is me standing on north bridge. North bridge is the place where the colonists fired at the british and forced them to turn and run. After this the colonists chased the british all the way out to boston.
- sophie. history post.

The north bridge was a small abttle tha should,not even have happened. The patriots were just going around to get some weapons, when some british wanted to cause trouble, so they killed 3 british soldiers. The rest ran away and calleed more soldiers to help later on.

Concord- Henry (History)

After defeating the Americans at Lexington, the British split up to find the American weapons. When crossing a bridge in Concord, local farmers were very grumpy and shot a couple of British soldiers. There were 250 British soldiers, and they all ran away from being very scared. This was the first victory for the Americans in the revolutionary war.

This is a monument dedicated to the british red coat soliders who died at concord. Only a couple of soliders were killed by the colional militia at concord. By miles

this monument is for those who fought at the battle of the old north bridge. -se

this monument is for those who fought at the battle of the old north bridge.
-seth n.

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the north bridge

here between two banks the british and americans fought by ezri

the old north bridge -ben h.

the old north bridge
-ben h.

This is a minute man(elite warrior) monument in lexington. it was made to honor the minute men
by miles

Lexington Green- Hunter

Today went to Lexington Green. A small yet important battle took place here during the Revolutionary War. Paul Revere warned the townspeople that the Redcoats were there when they arrived.

Look at me. I'm a minute man. -Ben Hewitt

Look at me. I'm a minute man.
-Ben Hewitt

This is the Lexington Green Monument. That is were the Battle of Lexington and C

This is the Lexington Green Monument.
That is were the Battle of Lexington and Concord took place.

-Seth

the unknown minuteman

the shot heard around the world and no one knows who it is

Lexington Green (History)

The Lexington Green was the first battle ground for the American revolutionary war. Many American soldiers have never fought in a war. The war was in a very small battle, in which the war took place within 3 minutes. There were only 70 US soldiers and 700 British soldiers.

This is where the lexington battle was fought. It was about 70 patriots vs 700 british soldiers. The patriots stood their ground, but someone shot and this started the battle. Nobody knows who shot, or if anyone actually shot. 8 were killed, 10 were injured. The british cheered after the battle, and this got the patriots angry and started the real war.