American History Samuel and Mikaela

Benjamin Franklin

One day, Benjamin Franklin was cooking a turkey for his friends, using the power of electricity  but because of his carelessness while showing off, he got a shock through his arm and was knocked out.

"What I meant to kill was a turkey", "instead I almost killed a goose"  he laughed after he came to.

He was wanting to show how electricity could be used to help people.All of his inventions were designed to help people. He invented a stove, bifocals, the lightning rod, an automatic lock, a step ladder chair and a stove with a chimney.

He improved the fire department, invented a circulating  library, made the post office faster and more efficient, made lights for the street at nights, made a garbage collection and deepened the rivers to help stop flooding..

He read lots of books and tried out lots of the ideas he read about. He was born on January 17th, 1706 in Boston on Milk St. He was the tenth and last son born to a soap and candle maker. He became a printer apprentice at the age of 12 to his brother James.but ran away to Philadelphia on October 1723.He started up his own printing shop and married Debbie Read when he was 24 in 1730. He published an almanac called 'Poor Richard's Almanack' full of funny jokes and and sayings along with interesting and useful information. He sold 10,000 copies and became very rich and well known.

He convinced France to fight against England and help the Americans win the war of independence. He helped write the Declaration of Independence, the Peace Treaty between England and the American colonists, and the Constitution of the United States.

Benjamin Franklin invented lots of things we still use today and helped win the war of Independence for the colonists in American and helped write lots of important documents for the Government.

Character Sketch

Character Sketch

She is tall with short, straight, brown hair. Her eyes look blue most of the time but when she were's green her eyes turn green. Today she is wearing a green jumper and a blue and white stripy shirt and long jeans. She can some times be scared. Once we did a action challenge camp and we had to climb up a ladder onto a log and the log was only 4 meters off the ground and she freaked out when she got to the top of the ladder and once she got down she blacked for about one minute because she was so scared but she decided to conquer her fear when we had to climb as high as a power pole and stand on top of a small platform and she did it. She is also very creative, artistic, and musical.

She is really good at playing the piano and she is really good at history and drawing. She got 99% on her piano theory exam only after she studied for two weeks. Once she painted a cat fish and it won first place at a art show.

Her family are Caitlyn which is the youngest then Mikaela then Samuel and Chloe and then her Mum and Dad.

Her name is Gracelyn, Marie, Laing.

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Analysis of Micrography

The words used to make this micrography are the lyrics from the song voice of truth by Casting Crowns. The words are arranged to look like a cross on a hill with the sun setting behind it. It’s coloured differently to make it more effective. The cross represents Jesus and so does the song. The main chorus is used.

 ‘But the voice of truth tells me a different story

And the voice of truth says “Do not be afraid!”

And the voice of truth says “This is for my glory.”

Out of all the voices calling out to me

 I choose to listen and believe the voice of truth