Carissa

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My friends and I were walking on the beach. When out of nowhere one of my friends says "What’s that over there? " I said lets go check it out, so we walk over to the tree and then we saw a treasure chest lying there. Then my friends all say open it. I said "Should we do this is not ours someone, for all we know could have left it here and be coming back for it but then I decided that it would be alright as long as we don’t brake it." So I opened it and we find all sorts of things about Christopher Columbus. They were all shocked and disappointed that it did not have money in it. I said "Why don’t we check it out and we could really learn something." They all groaned and said "We just got out of school we should be having fun" I said I agree, but you know Chris’s mom is our history teacher andshe said we could all do a project over the summer together. If we do this we would be done when she assigns it to the class and have the two months off history as free time. So they all agreed to do the project about Christoper Columbous.

We found avery intersting [|letter] from Christopher Columbus. here is an exert from his letter that we found interesting. //Thirty-three days after my departure from Cadiz I reached the Indian sea, where I discovered many islands, thickly peopled, of which I took possession without resistance in the name of our most illustrious Monarch, by public proclamation and with unfurled banners. To the first of these islands, which is called by the Indians Guanahani, I gave the name of the blessed Saviour (San Salvador), relying upon whose protection I had reached this as well as the other islands; to each of these I also gave a name, ordering that one should be called Santa Maria de la Concepcion, another Fernandina, the third Isabella, the fourth Juana, and so with all the rest respectively.// My friends and I found a [|diary] from Christopher Columbus and we found that he has a very strong faith in God. For his whole voyage he knew that the Lord was with him. Christopher Columbus says //"Our Lord has assigned the working out of all things to each person, but it all happens according to His sovereign will, even though He gives advice.// We found some intersting [|portraits] of Christopher Columbus there is a very good one and i found the artists name by: Constantino Brumidi //1860.// And we learned about what he looks like and my friends all said he looked way diffrent thn they expected. [|Artifacts:] "This balance, from Sargent & Company in Chicago (155 East Superior St.), is obviously a newer instrument than others in the museum. Probably used in the mid 20th century, its actual date of construction is uncertain."

My friends and i learned that i must be really hard to travel by ship and hard to make a civilization, and to survive. We also learned that Christopher Columbos is more interesting than we thought he would be we learned alot about his portraite, the artifacts, diary and the letter. We also found out that it might have been intersting to be part of the crew.

picture of: Christopher Columbus's ship

Pictures of:Christopher Columbus

picture of:the letter he wrote

picture of: the cover of his diary

picture of: artifact

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