"After a hard day's work diggin' up the sod, we're ready for chow."
Welcome to our class's blog. We are discussing the latest topics we're studying in American history and literature. This website has been active since December 2005. Selected Excel 10 students will take turns posting their thoughts, and other Excel 10 students will comment on these posts. Parents, staff, and other interested persons are invited to add their comments on our musings. Any inappropriate comments will be deleted.
Friday, October 20, 2006
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4 comments:
I think participating in this project made us really think about the true frontier life. Even though I wasn't in Nebraska experiancing the real weather and conditions, I understood that the families had to build their houses in order to live. The pioneers had to build the houses fast and become strong to carry the heaving sod and wood. They had to figure out what size square of sod to use to build their house. The pioneers had to nail wood fast to make the framing and doors for their sod houses. Our class had a hard time digging the sod and didn't get very far in an hour and a half. This shows that if the pioneers had a big family it helped a lot. They couldn't waste any time and had to get the job done to survive. The frontier life was difficult and some people couldn't last with the conditions. Over half of our class couldn't stand this life but maybe a few could take up the challenge. I know I couldn't survive in the smelly long thick dresses and live in a dirt and grass house. I could maybe live the frontier life for a week and then I would give up. I learned that even though the pioneers didn't have luxury items that we have today, they had their families to eat with, play, work, and talk to.
Michelle U
Participating in this process really made me realize how hard frontier life was. I was definitely surprised at how hard it was. We had over 60 kids working and we barely got anything done. I cant imagine having to build a whole entire sod house with just my small family of four. The nailing that we had to do into the wood seemed tedious but i guess thats what the frontier families had to deal with as well. I highly doubt that i would make it in the frontier life for more than a week or two. As much as i like to pretend i dont take my living accomidations for granted, i just dont know how living in a house made of dirt would work for me. I dont mind camping or anything like that, its just the food that they ate and having to work all day from sunrise to sunset. I just dont think i could last. I give that 1/3 of people that actually stayed the full five years a lot of credit. That is one hard life to live.
Jordan H
Even though i got muddy, dirty, and complained alot, i liked this project. It gave us an actual feel for things. No matter how much people say they know about things, they dont until they experience them. After it was over, i was more than glad we did it. It was very fun to build the house, especially once it started to take shape. The groups for building were huge, just like families in the west were. It was hard to believe that all of us would have to live in a tiny sod house. The work they did back in the day was long and tidieous and i have respect for them on a whole new level now.
ps: not a cute picture of me.
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Lisa R.
I think that participating in this activity made us really aware of what the frontiers people life was like. We experienced real weather conditions with mud, rain, and cold weather. I think that having us try to do something under a time limit was also a challenge for some tasks of the project. Making sod pieces of grass then trying to carry it over to a certain spot was hard becuase I thought that they were heavy and I had to have someone to help me. Our class didnt get very far on making the actual sod house within the hour and a half. It shows that the frontiers had to have their families help them and that everyone, even the children, worked throughout the whole day. I think this project benefited us all to realize how lucky we have it here, even though sometimes we dont feel as if we do.
Nicole M.
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