pbs.org

pbs.org is a really good websie to find out information about the history of the U.S. & mexican border. It gives short facts and information that really helped my group and I get started in this project and by looks of it is a website we trust and the with the information it gives us.

OUR STORY BOARD!!!

OK WELL WE TURNED iN OUR STORY BOARD TODAY AND OUR DRAWINGS WERENT THE MOST DETAILED THINGS EVER BUT WE DiD TRY OUR BEST ON iT & i THiNK THE STORY BOARD iS GUNNA HELP US SO WE HAVE AN iDEA ON WHAT TO PUT ON OUR MOVIE & iT WiLL BE A LOT EASiER STARTiNG WiTH SOME iDEAS THAN NONE.

Hernan Cortes Arrived in Mexico in 1519

When Hernan Cortes Arrived in Mexico in 1519, he sailed 11 ships westward in hopes of expanding their Empire. Cortes was not known for being able to lead expeditions but he was experienced and well known for his courage. Cortes used his own money and put it into this expedition. He called on friends to both help prepare for the trip and to join his small army and he was able to get 500 soldiers to sail from Cuba with Cortes in search of new wealth. He really was dedicated to this mission.

SOCRATiC SEMiNAR; WHiTE PRiViLEGES

I wasn't part of the inner circle, but I was part of the outter circle & the article that the inner circle were discussing was a very interesting article to me. I have never seen an article that had a list of what white people think their privilages in our society today. A lot of the list didn't seem to be 100% true because it didn't make sense where she(the author Peggy McIntosh) was getting these rules from. I did find out that even though this was written a while ago the author is still adding to the list. The article seemed to be kind of racist to when it's saying that white poeple can always find what they want when ever they want. Since people didn't seem to agree with this article in the inner circle I think that my opinion which was just because your white doesn't mean that everyone else who isn't should be trying to live up to become better("white"). Overall I learned so much from this seminar & even though I wasn't in the inner circle I wanted to talk so badly.

1st DRAFT! of our script

Beyond the Border Script

Rachel:
Stretching 2,000 miles and surrounded by four United States and six Mexican states, the US-Mexican border has long been a subject of controversy and conflict. Facing issues such as immigration, whether considered “legal” or “illegal”, free trade, and labor rights; the idea of the border itself has changed drastically over the years.


Brianna:
America, to some, it paints a portrait of hope, a landscape to a new life, through immigration and naturalization. And yet to others, it is an area in need of excessive security, with closed walls and a dividing line. It is native land to generations of indigenous North American tribes and home to the Latin American born Spanish- who with the help of the Indians and the rest of the populace won their independence from Spain in 1821.

Melissa:
But, how did this all begin? How did the border develop into what it is today and why? How did it evolve from a community of Native American groups, including the Aztecs into such a symbol of debate; drawing the line between the United States and Mexico?

Rachel:
From April 25, 1846 to September 14, 1847, the United States and Mexico went to war. It was a major event for both nations, changing a continent and forming a new identity for its peoples. During the war, the United States and Mexico would get into dozens of conflicts, which then ended up to losing up to 38,000 soldiers, and only about 1,700 U.S. deaths were directly battle-related, then the rest came from disease which they caught in the U.S. camps.

Brianna:
The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ended the U.S.-Mexican War. The treaty was signed on 2 February 1848, even though it’s the oldest treaty, it’s still in power between the United States and Mexico. As a result of the treaty, the United States acquired more than 500,000 square miles of territory.



Melissa:
This treaty not only separated the U.S. from Mexico, but it was very important in shaping the worldwide and family histories of Mexico and the United States. Since 1848 Native Americans and Mexican Americans have struggled to complete political and social fairness in the United States, The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo as a document that promised civil and property rights. Although the treaty promised U.S. citizenship to former Mexican citizens, the Native Americans in their land, who in fact were Mexican citizens, were not given full U.S. citizenship until the 1930s.

TODAY'S WRITTING WARM UP

Our writting warm up today was to describe how someone that we knew looked like such as their face & be able to describe exactly what was on their face & where. For my person the 1st person I could think of was my younger brother. I first dsecribed his head shape & skin tone, then his hair & the color & the length. Then I described where his eyes, nose, mouth, & ears are. I found this writting warm up fun but challenging because it was hard to describe where everything was on his face. But in the end I looked over it & it seemed to make sense to me. :]

THE DEATHS DURING THE U.S. & MEXICAN WAR

During the war, the United States and Mexico would get into dozens of conflicts, which then ended up to losing up to 38,000 soldiers, and only about 1,700 U.S. deaths were directly battle-related, then the rest came from disease which they caught in the U.S. camps. This was interesting because a lot of poeple were dying form just diseases and fewer were dying from fighting in the war which I saw was kind of unusual.