Yesterday, in attempt to determine who fired the "shot heard 'round the world" in the Battle of Lexington and Concord, we looked at six different sources from different people who recorded the event. First, we watched a TedTalk on how reliable an eyewitness source really is. It was determined that your mind fills in a lot of information or groups it together. The speaker identified this with September 11th, 2001. He said that he, along with many others, could swear that the second Twin Tower fell within an hour or two of the first, but this isn't true- it fell almost a day later. This related to the documents that we looked at by helping us determine if they were reliable or not. All of which were decidedly not reliable, mostly due to being written up to a week later, being biased, and/or not actually seeing the event occur.
Today, we looked at both this and this animation to learn about the more about the Battles of Lexington and Concord and the Battles of Bunker/Breed's Hills. After this, we created search stories on the two battles (which will be posted once it finally loads!).
Today, we looked at both this and this animation to learn about the more about the Battles of Lexington and Concord and the Battles of Bunker/Breed's Hills. After this, we created search stories on the two battles (which will be posted once it finally loads!).
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