my now ten year old nephew (of some random person’s war fame) turned in the following book report.
Charting the Wild West
The Louisiana Purchase of 1803 set off a huge world event, for Thomas Jefferson knew not the cost of the territory, nor Napoleon the mass of the purchase or Jefferson what the area was composed of. So he sent for two trustworthy generals, William Clark and Meriwether Lewis. Both were willing, both prepared for the dangers ahead.
Just barely.
How did they chart it?
One group had twelve personnel traveling, the other had nineteen. The dozen was commanded by Meriwether Lewis, the other by William Clark. In all it was one group, similar to the Motorola 6809’s dual 8-bit accumulators that could be bound in the same accumulator to make a single 16-bit accumulator. (Note that the chip can simply be called the 6809.) (Speaking of microprocessors, the Zilog Z800 [or 8108, 8116, 8208, or 8216] had an extra 256 bytes of random access memory on top of the main RAM [which was either 512 thousand bytes or sixteen million bytes, depending on whether the address bus was nineteen bit or 24-bit]. The extra 256B could be used for two purposes: cache and scratchpad. Note also that the data bus came in either eight or sixteen bits.) The young representative democratic republic was now ready to expand to 50 S. A. and Jefferson knew just how it would occur. A keelboat and two pirogues departed, first encountering Missouri and the Oto; however, the Sioux showed a massive threat. The Yankton Sioux were not pleased with the five medals received and told them to continue west, where they would meet the hostile Tetons. When war threatened, both sides withdrew at the last hour before war. Still, the Corps proceeded roughly NW. On their way, they met a Shoshone whom had experience as a hostage of several Hidatsa. Luckily, they released her. The first fork led them to the Falls, the second to the Jefferson River. Finally, Sagagwea found a long-lost brother by the name of Cameahwait. From Fort Clatsop, Lewis took the entirely uncharted Maria River and Clark crossed the Yellowstone.
That’s all there is to it.
allegedly his teacher took off points for not staying on topic, i think she needs to find him other topics…
ethan seems have to arrived at another milestone in his development. he is bringing home homework with words that he has spelled on his own. he is playing more imaginative games by himself and when he wants to play with us he is asking for monopoly. when we capitulate to playing monopoly, he can cipher out his own money. even, the neighbors have noticed and this weekend asked “who is that teenager in you house?”
this is all very cool, except that this new milestone has put some distance between he and logan and you can see that logan is missing her best friend.
given the near heroine like addiction to plastic surgery and botox our generation appears to have, it just occurred to natalie and i that we may be the ones that look odd as we age naturally, not as it should be, the other way around.
early the next day, i was out in the fog of a cool autumn morning delivering papers on my bicycle. i never rolled my papers, so as i approached each house i would remove a paper from my satchel, lay it down on the doorstep and then ride away without stopping.
at one of the last houses on my route, with the sun just starting to rise and cut through the fog, i had dropped a paper at the door and was riding out the driveway past an el camino when the quiet morning was rent with horrific snarling and howling. scenes of jack being torn to pieces across the yorkshire moors came to mind as i leaped off my bike and turned around raising my paper bag to fend off the attack.
the attack never came, but years were taken off my life all the same. the el camino had two large dog crates in its bed with a werewolf (or some may say large doberman pincher) in each…
yesterday i remarked on the new level of cunning my kids had achieved, naively thinking that was a plateau of sorts that they would test out for a while not realizing it was merely a one day stop in their diabolic progression.
today my son came home with a “caught being good” card from school. before i could figure out how he had earned the card, he asked if i could put some similarly colored paper in my printer and make lots of copies of the card.
with my earlier sense of pride waning, i asked why…
he ducked the question for a while before finally admitting he could turn them in to the principal for treats.
six years old and already masterminding a counterfeiting plot. that certainly trumps the mundane manipulation of a babysitter.
i will always mark my kids development this week through their realization that a new babysitter opens up the endless possibilities of redefining all the rules…
natalie doesn’t claim to be one of the smartest people on the planet, although clearly she is, but what she is tops at is multiple-guess tests. she has a sixth sense for getting those answers right and successes throughout all levels of school to prove it.
over the past year we’ve been teaching ethan to read. now he will read new books to all of us. as he plows through these stories, logan will throw out words he struggles with as if she has read them, and logan is almost never wrong.
we’re pretty certain this is the early manifestation of the multiple-guess gene.
i don’t recall who recommended kerli to me but she has been at the top of my playlist for the past few months and today i found out she is featured on the upcoming alice in wonderland soundtrack so now i have two reasons to anticipate that movie (johnny depp being the other reason in case it isn’t obvious).
mind you, i heard her music before seeing this video, so if your coming at it the other way around you’ll have to let me know how that works for you…
