Quarter Two

The activity Remember Patience Whipple is a book that we read that explains how colonists would go to the Americas for religious freedom, money and so on. A famous traveler on the ship, William Bradford, helped show the colonists in the beginning of the book that they are all equal and alike and that they are but little specks in the ocean and that they are Gods children and they have to work together to survive in the new world. When they land from the journey across the Atlantic, some people did not know how to farm, take care of animals, and build proper houses which caused people to die from sickness and famine. The diary is written by a little girl named Remember.

The purpose of reading this book was to show us how colonists struggled in the beginning to create a successful colony. It also shows us how people lived on the Mayflower with bad conditions on the ship and when they landed in the Americas. Some people had no experience in farming, making houses, or cleaning, which made most of the colonists die from many things, a lot of people also died from disease.

While reading Remember Patience Whipple, we learned how the people who were persecuted in England were also treated the same way on the ship. How they also had very unhealthy living conditions on the Mayflower. For example people had to wear the same clothing all the time and they had to sleep very close to each other on one floor. When the colonists landed, a lot of people became sick later on. So the colonists developed a sick shed for the people, and since the nurses there did not have the proper equipment to stay sick free; also became sicker than the people in the sick shed, which in turn caused them all to die.

I could have learned differently if I listened more carefully to the reader as they read and understood more. Also sometimes in the diary Remember used old English which caused some confused for everyone and even the teacher did not know what some of the words meant.

This relates to my goal of organization because it helped me to understand the main events of the book because we hat to write our own journal just like Remember’s Diary.