This week in history we began the week with a quiz on the Star Spangled Banner. I think I did very well on this quiz because I have known the song for a very long time. Next we continued on and learned about the construction of the Erie Canal. This canal was built in 1817 to promote Westward Expansion and trade. The canal opened America to new space and resources, but also spread disease and took land from American Indians. Next we learned about the Oregon Trail and the Plan of Manifest Destiny which both also promoted westward expansion.
This week in English we finished reading Into the Wild. Overall in this book I enjoyed learning about the exciting journey of Chris McCandless, but I really didn't like the chapters about the authors Northern voyage or the chapters that spent much too long analyzing Chris's personality. I think these chapters did add to the overall effect of the novel and gave it great organization, but these chapters were not very interesting to read about and just really dragged on.
A connection I made between History and English this week was between a man brought up in Into the Wild named Sir John Franklin and the quest of Lewis and Clark. My connection between these people is that Franklin was given the task of searching the Western area of Alaska in order to find the "Northwest Passage". Like Franklin, Lewis and Clark were also given the task to look for this rumored "Northwest Passage". In the end, neither parties found this Northwest passage because it does not exist.
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