My+Children's+book+(ep)


 * 1) **(EP) is going to create an children's story about the coming of and the War of 1812 that will:** Be easy to read and understand but give a lot of information.
 * 2) **My children's story will solve the following problem:** How did the war start and how did it end. What problems occured in between it.
 * 3) **My audience will experience my story through the eyes of:** A kid that is experiencing the war.
 * 4) **My children's story will have the following common characteristics:** My book will have pictures that tell the whole story rather than using paragraghs of words.
 * 5) **My children's story will have the following key historical events:** The burning of washington dc, the storms that happened, the coming of the war, battle of fort mckenry
 * 6) **My children's story will have the following key historical characters:** Francis Scott key, James Madison, the british army, the american army
 * 7) **My children's story will have the following key historically important concrete objects:** the white house, fort mckenry.
 * 8) **My children's story will make the audience feel the following emotions:**
 * 9) **My children's story will be credible because I will support it with the following sources:** Movies, textbook,

Brainstorm -- write what each page will be about and some of the action occuring in it....then write a brief description of the picture that you will include for that page of writing. This is just the rough draft! Or, use a story board. =__//BOOK PAGES//__= Intro Britain and France at War Britain and France decision about imports from USA Impressment Chesapeake incident Embargo Act Did the Embargo act work? Why did British help Indian Nations? Who was Tecumseh? What was his dream? Battle of Tippecanoe Impact on Tippecanoe on Tecumseh's Dream War Hawks Point-of-View The opposition's point-of-view The President, the reasons, the vote US at beginning of war compared to Britain Privateers Early Blunders(2) Washington, D.C. (2pp) Baltimore, Ft McHenry, Francis Scott Key, etc (4-6pp) Conclusion cs to SSB Your interpretation

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My name is Sly. I remember a lot about the war and I was only twelve years old. I might be old now but I remember everything about the war like it was yesterday. The pictures are in my head like I am still standing in front of everything that happened. Here is the begining and end of what the united states knows it as... "The Forgotten War."
 * 1) It all started because Britain and France started a fight on boats. The United States was stuck in the middle.
 * 2) Since Britain and France were in a fight, they didn't want the United States to be giving military stuff to one another. I remember the United states giving military stuff to both of them so that we wouldn't cause any problems.
 * 3) Now, everything started getting scary. The British ships stopped all the American ships that were giving stuff to France. This was called impressment and our town as well as many others were telling the British to stop.
 * 4) In June 1807 there was a British Ship called the Leopardand they stpped a boat that I have seen called the Chesapeke and tried talking four men from the United States. This is when our American General was going to do something.
 * 5) Some of the Americans wanted to go to war, like me, but others didn't. They started the Embargo Act which meant that we wouldn't give any military stuff to Britian.
 * 6) Sadly, the Embargo Act did not work. Americans brought things to Europe, breaking the law. Also, rather than Britain getting stuff from North America where I live, they got stuff from South America.
 * 7) I remember, in about the 1800's, Indians moved to the Northwest Territory which is in Canada. The British were protecting these indians because they wanted the United States to stop expanding so fast and the British wanted to keep their own interests in Canada. Basically, stirring up more trouble with us.
 * 8) There was this group called the war hawks believed that the only way to stop Britain and all of them bullying the United Staes was to have a war. That group thought that if they didn't have a war against the British, then Britain will prevent the United States from being powerful. I remember them talking about war, and I got scared.
 * 9) I was with the war hawks though.They thought that this war would have a great result. They think that the United States would grow a lot and move to the west more. Everything would be easier if the British were off our backs.
 * 10) On the other hand, many other people like John Randolph did not think the war was a good idea because he says it would not make anything better. They say that in order to go to war they need an army and make it powerful. I know that the British army is very powerful and we definately need to be more prepared.
 * 11) President James Madison had a hard time with Britain and they thought they were in a state of war anyway. People wanted war and others didn't. I didn't want the war to happen any more but many people voted for the war and that is when the United States declared war for the first time.
 * 12) The war has started. We were going against the British army which was the most powerful and well trained army. At this point we might be grouping people together and trying to train them, an that is what we called are army. I thought that we were going to have no chance at all.
 * 13) The United States did have an advantage at war though. They had these ameerican ships they caled the Privateers. They were American ships used to attack the British ships. The great thing was they were not expensive to have and they caought hundreds of British SHips.
 * 14) Even though the United States had an advantage against the Britsh, there were still many set backs. On e problem for them was that they still had no army. They were not very prepared at all and still needed a lot of training.
 * 15) Not only was that a problem it scared me so much when we were going to attack the British in Canada. That caused a lot of problems too. It wasn't fair for the United States to do that in Candada because there would be a big problem when they met. When they did, everything seemed like it was going to fall apart.
 * 16) The British then decided to attack the White House and Washigton D.C. I thought that they wouldn't do it because it is so important to us as Americans. President James Madison ordered his wife Dolly Madison out of the house and she did. Sure enough, they burned down the white house and Washington D.c. because it was a big symbol t us and it was pretty much defenseless.
 * 17) The thing that I found funny was that after they burnt down all the shelter they had in Washington a hurricane comes by and kills many British people. To think that tit wasn't enough, a tornado also comes by and kills more British. That helped us so much.
 * 18) Then they went to Baltimore. They went there because a man by the last name of Armstrong insited on going there. Armstrong protected Baltimore because the we were well prepared for that fight.
 * 19) Then there was that big battle in Fort McKenry. It was a very important battle as the United states wre shooting bombs at the British Ships and they were shooting bombs back at us. This attack was very big as all you saw was those bombs bursting in the air.
 * 20) There was a guy names Francis Scott Key. He was very amazed in this battle. As he was trying to save a friend out of the battle, he got stuck into it. He made a very important symbol for the United States.
 * 21) He made theStar Spangled Banner. The song you here at the beginning of football games today. Yes, he creatd as he watched everything like "the bombs bursting in air."
 * 22) This sog has four verses. And they had this lady create a huge flag of the united states for us to hang up to show that the United States is here and we are alive. They won the battle. If the didn't, many of us would be british to this day.
 * 23) The United States had won this battle. And it was a joy to all of us to see that the "flag was still there." Can you imagine being British right now? Well, we are not and that is because the United States has won the "Forgotten War."