Characters involved: Harriet Tubman, Narrator, “Miss Susan”, Shop Keeper Dave, Chief Boss X (a runaway slave), Harriet’s Mother, Joseph (Harriet’s Brother), Doctor Steve, Eric Young and Francis Bague (Slave drivers), and George Bates (Friend of the families).
Nar.: Today on Slave Stories, we will be discussing one of Harriet Tubman’s most famous stories. Please tell our audience about your great feat.
Harriet: Well Jeb, I was only 11 at the time, back in 1833, and I had just finished tending to Miss Susan, one of my owners. I was cleaning the dishes and looking after my little brother when Mr. Hastings came into the room. Mr. Hastings was the husband of Miss Susan. He came in the room like a superior king, and told me to quickly run to the store for some dry goods like cloth or flour. I quickly obeyed him and ran out of the room and was on my way to the store. It took my about a 15 minute walk to get there.
Nar.: Really, it must have been blocks from where “the Big House” was.
Harriet: Yes it was. I believe it was almost 5 miles from “the Big House” because there was a large neighborhood with about 18 houses, each with about 7 acres of land. Some Houses had even 11 or even 12 acres of land. The store was painted white and had dark green shudders. The store had 2 stories, the first was for the store and the second was for the owner. When I entered I didn’t see the shop keeper anywhere, but I did see one of the slaves he owned. I greeted him got into a conversation with him. I found out that his name was Chief Boss X. Anyways, I was talking to him very nicely taking my time there finding all the goods I needed. I walked to the counter and dropped all the items I needed onto it. While the shop keeper was ringing me up, Chief came up next to me and started talking again. The shop keeper eyed him and then told him to get back to work or he’d give him 16 lashes. With that he jogged over to a bunch of wooden crates, which looked like could hold a tiger inside and started stacking them. He was also opening them if they had a red “X” on them then he would restock the shop’s wares. Finally when the shopkeeper was bent over for a split second, placing my things in a “the Big House’s” wagon Mr. Hastings told me to bring on my way out, he dashed to the door. When the shopkeeper stood back up again, the slave was already at the door.
“Stop that Slave!!!” shouted the shopkeeper, but it was too late the other slaves around just looked blankly at him while he jerked open the door. He finally shouted at me to go catch him so I took 4 strides toward him from pure fear, but I stopped about 10 feet away from him. By now he was in the door way, ready to run and be free. What happened next was a blur to me and I only know what happened because my mother explained it to me. Apparently the shop keeper jumped over the counter and threw a 2lb weight at the slave but it dropped short and hit me. I was then knocked out and bleeding from the head. When I got home I was set on my bed with my mother tending to me. It was 2 days until any type of doctor came to see me and look at my wound. After the doctor saw me, I was forced to work in the fields with sweat and blood dripping slowly down my face and getting into my eyes. Finally after many long and painful weeks I recovered, and just barely grasping life.
Nar.: That is a truly amazing story, Harriet. How did you recover from such a wound?
Harriet: Well, I am a very serious Christian and all I did with my mother and my family was constantly pray and read the Bible. I believe that God healed me for a reason and I found out that, that reason is helping save slaves and give them freedom.
Nar.: Thank you for your wonderful story, Harriet, and that concludes today’s episode of Slave Stories. Thank you fore listening and tune in next time to hear about Nat Turners Story.
Monday, April 6, 2009
Wednesday, April 1, 2009
Step 1
Ezekiel Geffken
7\8A 4/1/09
Name: Harriet Tubman
Age: 11(in story)
What Year Their Story Took Place: Early 1830’s
Rights Denied: She was denied all of her rights when she was in slavery but here are some rights that denied her of her childhood experience.
When children are born, they are free and each should be treated in the same way.
They have reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a friendly manner.
Everyone can claim the following rights, despite a different skin color.
You have the right to live, and to live in freedom and safety.
Nobody has the right to treat you as his or her slave and you should not make anyone your slave.
Nobody has the right to torture you.
You should be able to ask for legal help when the rights your country grants you are not respected.
Image of Harriet Tubman:
Event Experienced: in this event that she experienced, she was in a store buying dry goods when the store owners slave ran away. The store owner yelled at Harriet to run after him so she ran a couple feet until she stopped and the slave was already next to the exit. As he was opening it the shop keeper came out with a 2lb metal weight and threw it. He totally missed the slave and hit Harriet. She was hit in the head and forcefully fell to the ground. The weight fractured her skull and she was unconscious and bleeding. The shopkeeper quickly grabbed her and took her back to her mother where she would stay for 2 days without seeing a doctor or specialist. After she was bandaged up she went back to work, but frequently fainted unconscious during work and without warning. She would faint in the most random of times and you couldn’t tell when or why either. After coming back home she obeyed her owner’s commands and went back to work, although she was in pain.
Harriet was frightened by what happened because she was bleeding a lot, she became dizzy sometimes from the loss of blood, and she kept fainting.
She finally survived by being nursed back to health by her mother. She constantly prayed to God and asked him if he would heal her. She was a very serious Christian and prayed with and for her whole family. Finally, after many weeks of struggling and pain she had recovered and was working in the fields again.
When Harriet Tubman is telling her story, she will be sad. She will be fluent and exclaim some parts of her story for a dramatic affect.
Sources: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harriet_Tubman, The Britannica Encyclopedia, http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi/aa/tubman, http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/aa/activists/tubman/youth1
Monday, February 2, 2009
New Character Names for Story
My Japanese character's new name is(Hiroyoshi Nishizawa): Fudo "Saku" Shizuki
My two new American character names are:
(David McCampbell) is now Mitch Miller
(Cecil Harris) is now George Martin
My two new American character names are:
(David McCampbell) is now Mitch Miller
(Cecil Harris) is now George Martin
Thursday, January 29, 2009
Time Period
Jackie Robinson -Jackie Robinson was the first African-American Major League Baseball player(1945)
D-Day - The Normandy Landings were the first operations of the Allied invasion of Normandy, also known as Operation Neptune and Operation Overlord.D-Day started at 06:30 (6:30am) and the troops started to invade Normandy.
Franklin D. Roosevelt - the 32nd president of the United States. was in office from March 4th, 1933 to April 12th, 1945.
Henry Fonda - Famous American entertainer and actor gets lead role in Lady and the Eve(1941)
Louis Armstrong - Famous African-American musician who plays the Trumpet. On of the most famous Jazz trumpetters and singers of that time period. Became very famous in the 1940's. Born August 4th, 1941 dies July 6th, 1971
D-Day - The Normandy Landings were the first operations of the Allied invasion of Normandy, also known as Operation Neptune and Operation Overlord.D-Day started at 06:30 (6:30am) and the troops started to invade Normandy.
Franklin D. Roosevelt - the 32nd president of the United States. was in office from March 4th, 1933 to April 12th, 1945.
Henry Fonda - Famous American entertainer and actor gets lead role in Lady and the Eve(1941)
Louis Armstrong - Famous African-American musician who plays the Trumpet. On of the most famous Jazz trumpetters and singers of that time period. Became very famous in the 1940's. Born August 4th, 1941 dies July 6th, 1971
Walt Disney - Famous cartoonist and entertainer. Born December 5th, 1901 and died December 15th, 1966. Co-Founder of Walt Disney Company, formerly known as Walt Disney Productions. Walt disney's cartoons, like Mickey Mouse, becaome popular in the 1940's.
Veronica Lake - a famous female actress of the 1940's. Constance Frances Marie Ockelman November 14, 1922(1922-11-14)Brooklyn,New York,U.S. Died July 7, 1973 (age 50)Burlington, Vermont, U.S.
My Mood
The Mood of my story will start out cheerful and high-spirited. I will write about both McCampbell and Harris going out on a very hard mission and then they coming back with many victories and unscratched. next i will have them be awarded a navy cross each along with the rest of their squad. Then they get a call that they have been assigned a mission that has just come up. it ios one of the most difficult missions they have seen and many soldiers have been unsucessful in proceding in it. their general sends them out on the mission.
Then in the middle of my story it will become sad and depressing because a Japanese Bomber attacked Pearl harbor and killed on of McCampbells relatives. On top of that many member of Harris and McCampbell's fleet or squadron get shot down while they are on the mission. they both crash land in the middle of a wide open field. they have been shot down by some anti-arcraft guns made by the japanese. they are stuck in the middle of an arid town that,they find out, is occupied with several infantry troops, snipers, and 3 tigers tanks. A surge of relief rushes through them as they see over a mountain a arcraft field.
Finally at the end the mood turns to suspenseful. I will make this happen by making McCampbell, Harris, and only a couple other fighters take out a the town and successfully make it to the air field. they high-jack a couple of japanese Zero's, Stuka's, and "Sally"'s. they end up finding their target.A huge squadron of Japanese Zero's. Hiroyoshi is one of them.
Finally in the end it will be joyfull again by making them take their target by surprise and distroying them with only a few casuallties, McCampbell and Harris returning home safely with many rewards, and WW2 ending.
Then in the middle of my story it will become sad and depressing because a Japanese Bomber attacked Pearl harbor and killed on of McCampbells relatives. On top of that many member of Harris and McCampbell's fleet or squadron get shot down while they are on the mission. they both crash land in the middle of a wide open field. they have been shot down by some anti-arcraft guns made by the japanese. they are stuck in the middle of an arid town that,they find out, is occupied with several infantry troops, snipers, and 3 tigers tanks. A surge of relief rushes through them as they see over a mountain a arcraft field.
Finally at the end the mood turns to suspenseful. I will make this happen by making McCampbell, Harris, and only a couple other fighters take out a the town and successfully make it to the air field. they high-jack a couple of japanese Zero's, Stuka's, and "Sally"'s. they end up finding their target.A huge squadron of Japanese Zero's. Hiroyoshi is one of them.
Finally in the end it will be joyfull again by making them take their target by surprise and distroying them with only a few casuallties, McCampbell and Harris returning home safely with many rewards, and WW2 ending.
NEW CHARACTER- Hiroyoshi Nishizawa
My new character is named Hiroyoshi "Devil of Rabaul" Nishizawa. He was a Japanese Ace pilot of World War 2. he fought for the Imperial Japanese Navy. Many people think that Hiroyoshi Nishizawa was the most successful Japanese pilot around in World War 2. He had 87 victories recorded by the time of his death, but many of his fellow pilots and friends said that he over 100 victories! Although, many pilots at the time dramatically exaggerated over their kills and victories, but many other sources think that Hiroyoshi Nishizawa had not been given enough credit and glory than other pilots that were less skilled than him. Hiroyoshi Nishizawa was born in a mountain village in the Nagano Prefecture, the fifth son of Mikiji and Miyoshi Nishizawa. His father was the manager of a sake or rice wine brewery. Hiroyoshi graduated from higher elementary school and then began to work in a textile factory. In June 1936, a poster caught his eye, an appeal for volunteers to join the Yokaren (flight reserve enlistee training program). Hiroyoshi applied and qualified as a student pilot in Class Otsu No. 7 of the Japanese Navy Air Force (JNAF). He completed his flight training course in March 1939, graduating 16th out of a class of 71. Before the war, he served with the Oita, Omura and Sakura Kokutai (air group). In October 1941, he was transferred to the Chitose Kokutai, with the rank of petty officer 1st class.
After the outbreak of war with the Allies, Nishizawa's squadron (chutai) from the Chitose group, then flying the obsolete Mitsubishi A5M, moved to Vunakanu airfield on the newly taken island of New Britain. The squadron received its first Mitsubishi Zeros (A6M2, Model 21) the same week.
On February 3, Nishizawa, still flying an obsolete A5M, claimed his first aerial kill of the war, a PBY Catalina, historians have confirmed, however, that the plane was only damaged and managed to return to base. On February 10, Nishizawa's squadron was transferred to the newly formed 4th Air Group. As new Zeros became available, Nishizawa was assigned an A6M2 bearing the tail code F-108.
On April 1 Nishizawa's squadron was transferred to Lae, New Guinea and assigned to the Tainan Kokutai (Air Group). There he flew with aces Saburo Sakai and Toshio Ohta in a chutai (squadron) led by Junichi Sasai. Sakai described his friend Nishizawa as about 5-foot-8, 140 lb (64 kg). in weight, pale and gaunt, suffering constantly from malaria and tropical skin diseases. Accomplished at judo, his squadron mates, who nicknamed him the "Devil," considered him a reserved, taciturn loner. Of his performance in the air, Sakai, himself one of Japan's leading aerial aces, wrote, "Never have I seen a man with a fighter plane do what Nishizawa would do with his Zero. His aerobatics were all at once breathtaking, brilliant, totally unpredictable, impossible, and heart-stirring to witness."
In mid-November the 21st was recalled to Toyohashi air base in Japan to replace its losses, with the ten surviving pilots all being made instructors, including Nishizawa. Nishizawa is believed to have had around forty full or partial aerial victories by this time (some sources claim 54).
Nishizawa, while staying in Japan, visited Saburo Sakai, who was still recuperating in the Yokosuka hospital. Nishizawa complained to Sakai of his new duty as an instructor: "Saburo, can you picture me running around in a rickety old biplane, teaching some fool youngster how to bank and turn, and how to keep his pants dry?" Nishizawa also described the loss of most of their comrade pilots to the ever increasing material advantage of the allied forces, the improved U.S. aircraft and tactics. "It's not as you remember, Saburo," he said. "There was nothing I could do. There were just too many enemy planes, just too many." Even so, Nishizawa could not wait to return to combat. "I want a fighter under my hands again," he said. "I simply have to get back into action. Staying home in Japan is killing me."
Nishizawa publicly chafed at the months of inaction in Japan. He and the 251st returned to Rabaul in May 1943. In June 1943 Nishizawa's achievements were honored by a gift from the commander of the 11th Air Fleet, Vice Admiral Jin'ichi Kusaka. Nishizawa received a military sword inscribed Buko Batsugun ("For Conspicuous Military Valor"). He was then transferred to the 253rd Air Group on New Britain in September. In November he was promoted to warrant officer and re-assigned to training duties in Japan with the Oita Air Group. In February 1944 he joined the 203rd Air Group operating from the Kurile Islands, away from heavy action.
Source:
After the outbreak of war with the Allies, Nishizawa's squadron (chutai) from the Chitose group, then flying the obsolete Mitsubishi A5M, moved to Vunakanu airfield on the newly taken island of New Britain. The squadron received its first Mitsubishi Zeros (A6M2, Model 21) the same week.
On February 3, Nishizawa, still flying an obsolete A5M, claimed his first aerial kill of the war, a PBY Catalina, historians have confirmed, however, that the plane was only damaged and managed to return to base. On February 10, Nishizawa's squadron was transferred to the newly formed 4th Air Group. As new Zeros became available, Nishizawa was assigned an A6M2 bearing the tail code F-108.
On April 1 Nishizawa's squadron was transferred to Lae, New Guinea and assigned to the Tainan Kokutai (Air Group). There he flew with aces Saburo Sakai and Toshio Ohta in a chutai (squadron) led by Junichi Sasai. Sakai described his friend Nishizawa as about 5-foot-8, 140 lb (64 kg). in weight, pale and gaunt, suffering constantly from malaria and tropical skin diseases. Accomplished at judo, his squadron mates, who nicknamed him the "Devil," considered him a reserved, taciturn loner. Of his performance in the air, Sakai, himself one of Japan's leading aerial aces, wrote, "Never have I seen a man with a fighter plane do what Nishizawa would do with his Zero. His aerobatics were all at once breathtaking, brilliant, totally unpredictable, impossible, and heart-stirring to witness."
In mid-November the 21st was recalled to Toyohashi air base in Japan to replace its losses, with the ten surviving pilots all being made instructors, including Nishizawa. Nishizawa is believed to have had around forty full or partial aerial victories by this time (some sources claim 54).
Nishizawa, while staying in Japan, visited Saburo Sakai, who was still recuperating in the Yokosuka hospital. Nishizawa complained to Sakai of his new duty as an instructor: "Saburo, can you picture me running around in a rickety old biplane, teaching some fool youngster how to bank and turn, and how to keep his pants dry?" Nishizawa also described the loss of most of their comrade pilots to the ever increasing material advantage of the allied forces, the improved U.S. aircraft and tactics. "It's not as you remember, Saburo," he said. "There was nothing I could do. There were just too many enemy planes, just too many." Even so, Nishizawa could not wait to return to combat. "I want a fighter under my hands again," he said. "I simply have to get back into action. Staying home in Japan is killing me."
Nishizawa publicly chafed at the months of inaction in Japan. He and the 251st returned to Rabaul in May 1943. In June 1943 Nishizawa's achievements were honored by a gift from the commander of the 11th Air Fleet, Vice Admiral Jin'ichi Kusaka. Nishizawa received a military sword inscribed Buko Batsugun ("For Conspicuous Military Valor"). He was then transferred to the 253rd Air Group on New Britain in September. In November he was promoted to warrant officer and re-assigned to training duties in Japan with the Oita Air Group. In February 1944 he joined the 203rd Air Group operating from the Kurile Islands, away from heavy action.
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Friday, January 23, 2009
Setting of Historical essay
The geography of my setting is Japan. Both my American pilots both fought most of the war in Japan. Their most famous and heroic acts also happend in japan. My other supporting character was born in japan and is part of the Imperial Japanese Navy. It is important to have this setting because it is where most of my story will take place and where my climax will occur.
i also think this is important because it is where the us dropped the atomic bomb and stoped the war. my character will be part of this so it is a big deal.
Sources:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Nagasakibomb.jpg
http://pixdaus.com/index.php?pageno=12&name=sutra&sort=userbest
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Japan
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