Olivia

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1) What was the purpose of the pony express? ﻿The purpose of the movie "Pony Express" was to have them deliver mail a faster way and that way was having them ride a horse to get the mail to the person faster.

2) Would you have been a good candidate to be one of the riders? Why or why not? (use the information from the article to support your answer) I probably wouldn't have been a good candidate because i would have not had good protection of myself and the weather would have been bad and i could have not survived.

3) Just as the telegraph led to the end of the pony express, do you think it might be possible that the internet is impacting our current postal system? Why or why not? I think that the internet isn't doing any harm to the postal service because most of the time the postal service isn't dealing with the internet. But sometimes the post service does need the internet to help them. The internet i think isn't impacting the postal service at all. 4) Write a summary of the movie that Miss Dauman showed you at the beginning of class and put it in my correcting basket at school.

[|Lincoln] If you have time click on the following article and read the story. Answer the following questions.

1) Who was John Wilkes Booth and why was he so angry with President Lincoln? He was mad at Abraham Lincoln because Lincoln represented everything John didn't like so then from there on he was always mad at Lincoln. 2) What assumptions are you making from the article? Another words, what are you taking for granted? Some of the things that I'm taking for granted are like being mad at someone when they have the right to think what they want and choose what they want. Sometimes you have to let your madness get out because for example John got mad at Abe for representing what John didn't want, and so John just can't get mad at something when someone else has the ability to choose it. 3) How can you check to see if those assumptions are accurate or not? What evidence would you site to support or refute this assumption? My assumptions are accurate because it says in the story. The evidence i would site would be to support what President Lincoln is saying because even though John didn't like what Abraham was saying that John Wilkes Booth was against. Once you are in the story please click on John Wilkes Booth's name or Dr. Samuel Mudd. Read their stories and write a brief summary. 2-3 paragraphs about each of them.


 * You may not get all of this done, but get as far as you can.

Miss Hansen