This school year I accomplished many things, but none of them tops this marking period in science. I got a 102% for a grade. On one of my test i got a 125% because I got every question right including the extra credit. This was the best grade Ive ever got in school. I am very proud of my self because I got a very high grade and it was not hard at all.
I admire my teacher Mrs. Albanese not only because she told me to write this post on how much I Admire her but because she is my favorite teacher of the year. She also trust me with her unpayed for car as she calls it she told me that she only payed for her keys so far. Mrs. Albanese must be a very good teacher because she had me and I give teachers trouble on purpose at the beginning of the year because I want to see how they will take it in a situation like this.
Thank you for teaching me LA this year. I learned tons of stuff in your class. I learned about the protopages and edublogs. On the protopages we took our essays on famous people who changed living in some way and put pictures and the information we learned about them and put it on a web site of our own. The edublogs are something like the protopages but the difference is that we have like work we do every day and post it on our blogs.
Today I don’t know what is going on but I don’t feel like doing nothing at all. Also I am mad because I don’t feel like writing this but my teacher Mrs. Albanese is making me do this for a grade, so I have to do it because I want to keep a good grade in this class.
Imagine there was a man who invented thousands of useful things from peanuts. Would you believe that George Washington Carver, an African American, knew so much about agriculture that his ideas became the southerners way of farming?
George Washington Carver was a very intelligent and successful scientist, or botanist, as he called himself. Carver’s mother was a slave, and she was stolen, or kidnapped, by “Nightriders”, a group of people who stole slaves and either used them for themselves, or sold them.
A family who lived near him and his mother took him in. Their name was Carver. He lived with them for about ten years. Nobody knew the boy’s real birthday, but he figured he was about ten when he left home to go to a school for colored children. The school was about ten miles up the road in a town named Neosho. He walked the entire way, with one dollar in his pocket. When he got there, he did odd jobs for people trying to raise money.
When he went to school all the boys and girls laughed at him, and the teacher didn’t seem to like him that much either. He slept in a barn every night until the owner of the barn found him. The owners of the barn were named John and Lucy Martin. They decided to take him in and pay him, as long as he did work for them. After a while the Martins decided to move to California, so they had no choice but to leave George behind.
The Martins made arrangements for George to live with someone he had met at church. He called her Aunt Mariah. She was very loving and really cared about George. He decided to move to Fort Scott, Kansas where he could get a better education and go to school with all children, white and black. He lived behind a hotel, with the hotel’s permission, of course.
He had his own business, a laundry service. He went to school at “Fort School”. As time wore on, he packed up and moved to Kansas City because at Fort Scott a black man got lynched. There he worked as a helper to construction workers.
When he was old enough, he applied to Highland University, and was accepted. When he got there, the president of the college turned him down because he was black. So he went to Simpson University and then Iowa State. He taught there for a while and then made one of the biggest decisions of his life, and started to teach at Tuskegee Institute and on the Jessup Wagon. As it turns out, he taught there for the rest of his life.
He taught science, mostly botany. That is where he discovered most of his uses for the peanut. Carver was in his late 70s when he died at Tuskegee Institute in Tuskegee, Alabama. His death was a national event and everyone mourned.
Carver made things out of peanuts. Carver made a bulletin in 1916 that were common kitchen recipes, on this lists of his peanut inventions included salted peanuts, bar candy, chocolate coated peanuts, peanut chocolate fudge, peanut wafers and peanut brittle. George’s list of peanut inventions have 30 cloth dyes, 19 leather dyes, 18 insulating boards, 17 wood stains, 11 wall boards and 11 peanut flours.
To conclude the hard life of George Washington Carver, he was a great man at heart and he had a good head on his shoulders. He made a lot of big decisions but none was bigger than the one he made when he left Iowa State to teach at Tuskegee for the rest of his life.
