This week the boys wrote what it might be like if they came to America around 1700. Here's what they wrote:, not as politically sensitive as I've taught them to be since a lot of the American curriculum we're using still says "Indians."

Pete wrote:
The Ship Going to America

One day I sailed to America and Indians did not like us and we had to fight the Indians.

Nate said he isn't finished yet, and I hope he finishes this good beginning:

About America

I'm in England and my name is Nate and my whole family wants to go to America in New York and we are on the ship to go to America and finally we reached America then we got shipwrecked on an island very close to land then we went on a rowboat to land. Then we saw Indians then the men picked up their guns then the Indians ran away then we went to cut trees to build homes.