Thursday, November 19, 2009

the watsons go to bimingham (test)

1. It was so cold on saturday the watsons sat huddled together under a blanket on the couch.

2. momma felt the coldest the most because she was from alabama.

3. kenny and his family lived in flint michigan.

4.Joetta was kenny's little sister.

5. according to kenny,which of the following was NOT true of his older brother Byron? he trid to make momma laugh all the time.

6.The weather man said the temperature in alanta, georia, would reach the mid seventies.

7. Dad told kenny, Byron, and joetta they were lucky not to be the children of one of momma's old boyfriends named Hambone Henderson.

8. when she was about to laugh, momma put her hand over her mouth because she had a big gap between her two front teeth.

9. Which of the following was NOT a warning moses henderson gave momma about flint? most of the people were chinses, and there wasn'tone colored preson in the whole city.

10. Momma said life in birmingham, even though it was not perfect, was slower, friendlier, and people were more honest about the way they felt.

11. Since they couldn't contat thier landlord about thier cold apartment, the Watsons planned to spend the night with aunt Cydney.

12. the brown bomber was the Watsons' 1948 plymouth.

13. Byron and kenny were not happy when Dad ordered them to scrape the ice off the car windows had

14. Kenny was agitated because Byron's said he was adopted and shouldn't be forced to work for the Watsons family.

15. The night befor, Byron and his friend Buphead had given Kenny lessons in how to survive a blizzard.

16. At first Kenny ignored Byron calls because he though his brother was playing another trick on him.

17. Kenny discovered that Byron mouth was frozen onto the outside mirror.

18. Kenny parents were shook up when they heard that Byron was crying.

19. Dad laughed at Byron's perdicament because he realizd that Byron had been kissing his reflection in the mirrior.

20. Kenny could tell momm was worried because she started to talk southern style.

21. During Byron's ordal, Dad kept laughing and making jokes about the situation.

22. poring hot water on the mirror was a second of relife for Byron.

23. with all five of them crying and standing around the car in freezing temperatures, Kenny thought t wasno wonder the neighborscalled them the wierd watsons.

24. Momma freed Byron from his pedicament by pouring hot boiling water on the mirror.

25. On the way o aunt Cyndey's when Kenny paid Byron back for punching him in the forehead and for not doing his share of the work all the watsons except Byron cracked up.

Tuesday, November 10, 2009

LETS LEARN ABOUT THE AFRICAN BURIAL GROUND

As you may know thier was alot of bodies buried in the african burial ground. Some people think that there are more than 20,000 bodies there. Some of the bodies were girls,boys,women,men and,babys. Scientists and Archaeologist can sometimes do research and find out if the bones where from a women,man,gril,boy,baby. when the research was done the scientists and archaeologist put the bones into cuffins and 60 ciffins can go into a big crate.

In the back of the biluding you can see that thier where 7 mouns 60x7=420 so thats how many bodies are underneath these mouns in the back of this biulding.A while later George W. Bush picked this place as a national momument.Because I think he thought it was good for children's education,and learning propuses about african americans.In 1993 the African Burial Ground was a historical landform.In 2006 the African burial ground was apart of park service.In 2007 the ABG was showed to the public.

Some facts that others need to know! what i thought was intersting was the women who had a musketball going through her ribs. She died because someone shoot her with a gun. I am thinking they shoot her because she tryed to run away from her master.Another thing I thought was that the bodies or the bones don't look that old they look like they are 1yr old.This is also my question to the archaeologist why don't the bodise look old?