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Monday, March 15, 2010
Pioneer Girl
What do you think would have been the best and worst things about being a child in a homesteading family? Explain your answer with a "quote" from the reading selection.
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I think the best thing is that you don’t have to worry about crowds and all the noise that comes from out side. But the worst thing is that you have no friends. Also you have to do work and not get to just chill.
I would hate being in a homestead house becuse it will suck and being with a crowded family and liveing in a small house with dangores things that you don't know when will it habeen.Heres a "quote" from page the nose was the roof being torn off the kitchen.
One of the best things about the prairie is that there are no crowds and people pushing around. One other good thing about the prairie is that you don't have to pay taxes. One thing that is bad about the prairie is that you have to work from day 'til night. One more bad thing about the prairie is that your neighbors live miles and miles away from you. Here's a quote from the story from page 504. When the storm finally stopped, the house was "a sorry looking mess.
I think the worst thing that is that you wouldn,t have any space in your sod house. The best thing is that you would get to expereince a lot of new things. 'qoute' she whirled around and saw the heifer, headdown dashing at her she made a mad dash and she rolled under a cow and crawled under the barbed-wire fence.
The best thing about being a homestead family is that you learn new thing every day while you grow up and the worst thing about living with a homestead family is that it's a lot of work. Heres a "quot" from page 510- 511 when "The little girl got charged at by one of the heifers and got scrapped from her waist to her armpit and never cried untill she got to the house and her mom told pa that they should sell the heifer the next day and then the same heifer charged to her again and then she rollen under one of the cows then she roolled under the barbed wire and ripped her favorite gown and she cried more than when she got scrapped from the heifer. Also the heifer had horns that were relly sharp and they ended up selling the heifer that day."
The first best thing about being in a homestead is that you had alot of experiance in that way. The bad thing is that when theres a storm you don't have alot of cover or a basement. Heres a quote from the story when it's winter you can't even go outside of your house and play because it's so cold but on the other hand when Spring comes you can play most of the time when your aloud to.
If I were in a homesteading family, the best thing would be that I would always have somthing to do. On the downside, I would be tired from all the work and would want to stop. Here is a quote from the story from page 510, "Everyone worked six days a week, including small children."
I think the worst thing about being a pioneer is the weather, work, and danger. The best thing is being active, having a lot of property, and… nothing else, really. Here is a quote from page 510, “Since there were no boys in the family, he called on five-year-old Grace, nicknaming her Pete because she would be doing work usually done by a boy.”
I think the worst thing about being a pioneer is the weather, work, and danger. The best thing is being active, having a lot of property, and… nothing else, really. Here is a quote from page 510, “Since there were no boys in the family, he called on five-year-old Grace, nicknaming her Pete because she would be doing work usually done by a boy.”
I think some of the best and worst things about being a child living in a homesteading family are as follows. It must be very fun to live in so much land and be able to have endless miles to go and roam. Also, Having open grass if you know how to ride a horse that must be a great place to ride around with a horse. Those are some of the great things about a homestead but here are the bad things. Your family could not get any rain and die from starvation, or have to spend all your life in a open land with no friends only your family and your chickens and hens and cattle. Also, the fires! The massive destructive fires that kill your crops and kill you and they can start all in the flash of lightning (literally). And finally the hail storms are so devestaiting. ice balls falling from the sky killing your crops and hurting your animals. Lastly, the homes. Made of sod and grass with not much protection. Here is a "quote" from the story to support my ansewer. "Grace never forgot her first praire fire. As soon as Poppie saw the smoke in the far hills, he took off in the wagon with buckets of water. Mama, florry and grace watched all morning as the fire drew closer to their land. Grace was frightend. Mama told the girls that if the fire jumped the firebreak they would run to the big bear field were the fire would either go around them or burn out. When the fire reached the firebreaks, Grace was ready to run. But then she saw that the fire was dieing out." How scary would that be?! seeing a fire coming straight for your house and knowing that if it gets over the stoppers your house is over. Also you have to run out to a field and WATCH it!
I think the worste thing about being a child in a homesteading family is that you have to do a bunch of chores and take many risks, like when Grace almost got skewered by a cow! the best thing is probably going to a neighbors house to get a bucket of water. heres a quote from page 512 when grace was doing something in the farm when suddenly there was the same huge cow from before charging at her from nowhere and almost skewered her, also ruining her dress
I would not like that becuse haveing homes blon down and haveing a little houes made of grass and sod and dirt and geting. then when you have to work you have to work all day then go to bed then work all day agin and when you get to play and you run in to the grass then you will get lost then you will have to work all day and that meens you have to work all night when you find your way out of all that grass then they will get really mad then they will car about you then they will say get out of here to work but they do not mean it but he work all day then then when he got tird he went to sleep"quote from pag 504 when the noise was the roof being torn off the kitchen. when the storm fanally stopped, the house was "a sorry-looking like a mess. every last thing had blown off the wall's and all mama's little shelves, brackets, whotnots, and pictures were either smashed to bits or gone entirely."
I think it would be horribe to live on the priare. We wouldn't have any friends and we would live in the middle of nowhere. At least you would still be with your family. I would hate working on the farm everyday it would be difficult.
Some of the best and worst things about being a homesteading child on the prairie, was working from day to night, and having so many people in a small sod house. Some good things were that in the spring the grass was green. "Even very young pioneer children helped feed animals, milk cows, and do other chores."
I think that the best thing about being a child in a homestead would be that life was diferent and uniqe. I also think that the best part about being a homestead child would be that you were never board. The worst thing ab out being a homestead child would be that the kids have to eat after the adults and get little or no food. Another reason why I think that being a homestead child would be that there are no neighbors close to you. Here is a quote from the story' "The Tottens were only a few miles away, but Mama still felt as if she lived in the middle of knowhere".
Being a child in the prairie was rough and sometimes fun. Life on the prairie was rough because of all the chores they had to do so young. Although one of the fun things on living on the prairie was getting to be outside in the sunshine and living where there was not as much air pollution. Here is a quote from the story,"During the fall Grace and Florry played outside as much as they could." This quote was found on the page 501.
I think the worst thing about being an immigrant would be that when you turn three you would have to work all day and kids might not even get to eat some nights because the adults were the people who got to eat first because they are stronger and they do the most work and plus you live in a really tiny house and this would have to bo the worst part you had to pick up a wheel barel ful of cow chips to light a fire and there is not reallly any good thing about that but it might be fun to work with animals and grow food and here is a part on page 511 were it should a bunch of kids about two or three doing a lot of work like growing crops and carryng wheel barels so I am thankful for the stuff I have now and I think being an immigrant would be a hard way to live.
I think the best things were they were never bored. They worst things was all the chores they needed to do. Heres a quote from the story on page 512 "Even very young pioneer children helped feed animals, milk cows, and do other chores."
If I lived in a homesteading family, the good thing about living in a homesteading family is that you would always have something to do. The bad thing about living in a homesteading family is that I would get tired about all of the work and stop. Here’s a quote from the story, “all of the children had to work 6 days a week including small children.”
The best thing would be to see all the farm animals. The worst thing would be waiting for second table. here's a quote from the story. "the worst thing of all was to wait for second table and we had to hope that there was going to be food left for us."
I think the best thing was that when you do work you smell the fresh air. I think the best thing was that you needed to do work all the time. If you didn't work then you just stand there. The worst thing is being a child in a homestead is that you were alone when you needed to find a missing cow. I would be scared to death you don't know what animals are hiding behind the bushes. Heres a "quote" from the story from page 504. Every last thing had blown off the walls, and all Mama's little shelves brackets, whatnots, and pictures were either smashed to bits or gone entirely."
I think one of the best things of having to move west and become a pioneer are getting to have so much land for free, but you have to farm it. One thing that I wouldn’t like about being a pioneer is that one you don’t have really any neighbors and two you have to farm so much land and help with the farm and animals. A quote from the story to support my answer is, “But the heifer gouged a deep cut from her hip to armpit.” That shows that it is a lot of hard work to work with the animals and herds them, because this happened to a little 5 year old girl herding cattle.
The good thing about being in a homestead is having your own land and lots of property (a lot of property). Here is a quote from the story on page 503 when mama said “Mama told the girls that if the fire jumped the firebreak they would run”. Luckily they had enough land to run. And for a bad thing to be in a homestead is having to wait for second plates if you’re a kid which is weird because I thought kids were going to eat first. Here is a quote from the story on page 507 “While hard knots of hunger grew and grew inside of us, we had to sit back, smelling the good smells, and hoping there would be enough left for us,”
I think the worst thing is having to wait for second table if there wasn't enough room for everyone. The best thing would be riding in the wagon to go somewhere or to a friend's house. Here is a qoute from the story, "If Mama would relent, "we had fun, joincing along in the wagonand singing with poppie above the rattle and bang of the empty barrels."
If I were in the prairie times I would like the chores for a little while but when I got to the animal chips I would start disliking that chore but I’ve always wanted to live on a farm or in a house that had a farm or barn in an area near that house and then I could start taking care of animals in the barn/ farm because if I show that I’m really responsible I might get to take care my own horse. But I wouldn’t mind that much to be in a homesteading family but just a bigger house well at least for a little while. Here’s a quote from the reading selection, “ At the age of three kids got to start by picking up chips for fuel.
If I were in the prairie times I would like the chores for a little while but when I got to the animal chips I would start disliking that chore but I’ve always wanted to live on a farm or in a house that had a farm or barn in an area near that house and then I could start taking care of animals in the barn/ farm because if I show that I’m really responsible I might get to take care my own horse. But I wouldn’t mind that much to be in a homesteading family but just a bigger house well at least for a little while. Here’s a quote from the reading selection, “ At the age of three kids got to start by picking up chips for fuel.
In the homestead family a good thing would be that you would never be bored because you are working all day long. Now the bad things you live with your whole family lives with you in a one room house and you would be tired all day also your house would be made out of sod. Now to me that isn’t the best life to have.
I think that the best part about being a child in a homesteading family is that you learn how to be independent and how to be strong. The worst part is the fact that you work hard labor more hours than you get to sleep. Also, you can get hurt by the animals as Grace McCance (Pete) did in the story. An example from page 512 is, "As the heifer rushed her, Grace flattened herself against the hay, but the heifer gouged a deep cut from her hip to armpit.
The best thing in the prairee is that you get to expeiriance the wild life. The worst thing is that you have to wait to eat after the adults (if their is any food left). here is a quote from the story "the worst thing of all was to wait for second table and we had to hope that there was going to be food left for us."
I think that if you were a child on a homestead the best thing that could happen is a good year of crops and you make a lot of money. Then you could move out and afford a house in the crowded area's. The worst part could be if a huge storm hit and destroyed everything you and your family had. Then you would probably die of starvation, storms, or/and weather. Here is a example from page 504,” The noise of the roof being torn off the kitchen. When the storm stopped, the house looked like a sorry mess." That an example of a bad thing that happened, your house can get destroyed and you will probably die from the weather.
The best thing that happened when you are a child in a homestead is, that you can plant crops and if they turn out well then you have a lot of fruits and vegetables to eat. The worst thing that could happen as a child in a homestead is, that your house could could get burned or it could be hit by a storm. Here's a quote from page 504, "Poppie hunted for the roof boards that had blown away and set to work rebuilding the roof." I conected the quote to the part about Poppie finding all the roof pieces because they blew off the house because of the big storm.
I think the best thing about the praire would be working outside all the time. I think the worst thing would be having no neibors. If you don't have neibors when somthing happens you wont have any help. "Every one worked six days a week, incleding the childeren."
The two best things about living on the prairie would have been that you didn't have to pay taxes and there are no people around to bother you. The two worst things about living on the prairie would have been not having close neighbors and you have to work day until night. Here is a qoute to support my answer " aafter the storm had stopped, the house was a sorry looking mess."
The worst thing about being a child then would be that you would always have to work as what we say now is "HARD" and the best thing would be NO SCHOOL! Here is a quote from the story to support my answer "The hens would stroll the prairie for hours".
34 comments:
I think the best thing is that you don’t have to worry about crowds and all the noise that comes from out side. But the worst thing is that you have no friends. Also you have to do work and not get to just chill.
I would hate being in a homestead house becuse it will suck and being with a crowded family and liveing in a small house with dangores things that you don't know when will it habeen.Heres a "quote" from page the nose was the roof being torn off the kitchen.
One of the best things about the prairie is that there are no crowds and people pushing around. One other good thing about the prairie is that you don't have to pay taxes. One thing that is bad about the prairie is that you have to work from day 'til night. One more bad thing about the prairie is that your neighbors live miles and miles away from you. Here's a quote from the story from page 504. When the storm finally stopped, the house was "a sorry looking mess.
I think the worst thing that is that you wouldn,t have any space in your sod house. The best thing is that you would get to expereince a lot of new things. 'qoute' she whirled around and saw the heifer, headdown dashing at her she made a mad dash and she rolled under a cow and crawled under the barbed-wire fence.
The best thing about being a homestead family is that you learn new thing every day while you grow up and the worst thing about living with a homestead family is that it's a lot of work. Heres a "quot" from page 510- 511 when "The little girl got charged at by one of the heifers and got scrapped from her waist to her armpit and never cried untill she got to the house and her mom told pa that they should sell the heifer the next day and then the same heifer charged to her again and then she rollen under one of the cows then she roolled under the barbed wire and ripped her favorite gown and she cried more than when she got scrapped from the heifer. Also the heifer had horns that were relly sharp and they ended up selling the heifer that day."
The first best thing about being in a homestead is that you had alot of experiance in that way. The bad thing is that when theres a storm you don't have alot of cover or a basement. Heres a quote from the story when it's winter you can't even go outside of your house and play because it's so cold but on the other hand when Spring comes you can play most of the time when your aloud to.
If I were in a homesteading family, the best thing would be that I would always have somthing to do. On the downside, I would be tired from all the work and would want to stop. Here is a quote from the story from page 510, "Everyone worked six days a week, including small children."
I think the worst thing about being a pioneer is the weather, work, and danger. The best thing is being active, having a lot of property, and… nothing else, really. Here is a quote from page 510, “Since there were no boys in the family, he called on five-year-old Grace, nicknaming her Pete because she would be doing work usually done by a boy.”
I think the worst thing about being a pioneer is the weather, work, and danger. The best thing is being active, having a lot of property, and… nothing else, really. Here is a quote from page 510, “Since there were no boys in the family, he called on five-year-old Grace, nicknaming her Pete because she would be doing work usually done by a boy.”
I think some of the best and worst things about being a child living in a homesteading family are as follows. It must be very fun to live in so much land and be able to have endless miles to go and roam. Also, Having open grass if you know how to ride a horse that must be a great place to ride around with a horse. Those are some of the great things about a homestead but here are the bad things. Your family could not get any rain and die from starvation, or have to spend all your life in a open land with no friends only your family and your chickens and hens and cattle. Also, the fires! The massive destructive fires that kill your crops and kill you and they can start all in the flash of lightning (literally). And finally the hail storms are so devestaiting. ice balls falling from the sky killing your crops and hurting your animals. Lastly, the homes. Made of sod and grass with not much protection. Here is a "quote" from the story to support my ansewer. "Grace never forgot her first praire fire. As soon as Poppie saw the smoke in the far hills, he took off in the wagon with buckets of water. Mama, florry and grace watched all morning as the fire drew closer to their land. Grace was frightend. Mama told the girls that if the fire jumped the firebreak they would run to the big bear field were the fire would either go around them or burn out. When the fire reached the firebreaks, Grace was ready to run. But then she saw that the fire was dieing out." How scary would that be?! seeing a fire coming straight for your house and knowing that if it gets over the stoppers your house is over. Also you have to run out to a field and WATCH it!
I think the worste thing about being a child in a homesteading family is that you have to do a bunch of chores and take many risks, like when Grace almost got skewered by a cow! the best thing is probably going to a neighbors house to get a bucket of water. heres a quote from page 512 when grace was doing something in the farm when suddenly there was the same huge cow from before charging at her from nowhere and almost skewered her, also ruining her dress
I would not like that becuse haveing homes blon down and haveing a little houes made of grass and sod and dirt and geting. then when you have to work you have to work all day then go to bed then work all day agin and when you get to play and you run in to the grass then you will get lost then you will have to work all day and that meens you have to work all night when you find your way out of all that grass then they will get really mad then they will car about you then they will say get out of here to work but they do not mean it but he work all day then then when he got tird he went to sleep"quote from pag 504 when the noise was the roof being torn off the kitchen. when the storm fanally stopped, the house was "a sorry-looking like a mess. every last thing had blown off the wall's and all mama's little shelves, brackets, whotnots, and pictures were either smashed to bits or gone entirely."
I think it would be horribe to live on the priare. We wouldn't have any friends and we would live in the middle of nowhere. At least you would still be with your family. I would hate working on the farm everyday it would be difficult.
Some of the best and worst things about being a homesteading child on the prairie, was working from day to night, and having so many people in a small sod house. Some good things were that in the spring the grass was green. "Even very young pioneer children helped feed animals, milk cows, and do other chores."
I think that the best thing about being a child in a homestead would be that life was diferent and uniqe. I also think that the best part about being a homestead child would be that you were never board. The worst thing ab out being a homestead child would be that the kids have to eat after the adults and get little or no food. Another reason why I think that being a homestead child would be that there are no neighbors close to you. Here is a quote from the story' "The Tottens were only a few miles away, but Mama still felt as if she lived in the middle of knowhere".
Being a child in the prairie was rough and sometimes fun. Life on the prairie was rough because of all the chores they had to do so young. Although one of the fun things on living on the prairie was getting to be outside in the sunshine and living where there was not as much air pollution. Here is a quote from the story,"During the fall Grace and Florry played outside as much as they could." This quote was found on the page 501.
I think the worst thing about being an immigrant would be that when you turn three you would have to work all day and kids might not even get to eat some nights because the adults were the people who got to eat first because they are stronger and they do the most work and plus you live in a really tiny house and this would have to bo the worst part you had to pick up a wheel barel ful of cow chips to light a fire and there is not reallly any good thing about that but it might be fun to work with animals and grow food and here is a part on page 511 were it should a bunch of kids about two or three doing a lot of work like growing crops and carryng wheel barels so I am thankful for the stuff I have now and I think being an immigrant would be a hard way to live.
I think the best things were they were never bored. They worst things was all the chores they needed to do. Heres a quote from the story on page 512 "Even very young pioneer children helped feed animals, milk cows, and do other chores."
If I lived in a homesteading family, the good thing about living in a homesteading family is that you would always have something to do. The bad thing about living in a homesteading family is that I would get tired about all of the work and stop. Here’s a quote from the story, “all of the children had to work 6 days a week including small children.”
The best thing would be to see all the farm animals. The worst thing would be waiting for second table. here's a quote from the story. "the worst thing of all was to wait for second table and we had to hope that there was going to be food left for us."
I think the best thing was that when you do work you smell the fresh air. I think the best thing was that you needed to do work all the time. If you didn't work then you just stand there. The worst thing is being a child in a homestead is that you were alone when you needed to find a missing cow. I would be scared to death you don't know what animals are hiding behind the bushes. Heres a "quote" from the story from page 504. Every last thing had blown off the walls, and all Mama's little shelves brackets, whatnots, and pictures were either smashed to bits or gone entirely."
I think one of the best things of having to move west and become a pioneer are getting to have so much land for free, but you have to farm it. One thing that I wouldn’t like about being a pioneer is that one you don’t have really any neighbors and two you have to farm so much land and help with the farm and animals. A quote from the story to support my answer is, “But the heifer gouged a deep cut from her hip to armpit.” That shows that it is a lot of hard work to work with the animals and herds them, because this happened to a little 5 year old girl herding cattle.
The good thing about being in a homestead is having your own land and lots of property (a lot of property). Here is a quote from the story on page 503 when mama said “Mama told the girls that if the fire jumped the firebreak they would run”. Luckily they had enough land to run. And for a bad thing to be in a homestead is having to wait for second plates if you’re a kid which is weird because I thought kids were going to eat first. Here is a quote from the story on page 507 “While hard knots of hunger grew and grew inside of us, we had to sit back, smelling the good smells, and hoping there would be enough left for us,”
I think the worst thing is having to wait for second table if there wasn't enough room for everyone. The best thing would be riding in the wagon to go somewhere or to a friend's house. Here is a qoute from the story, "If Mama would relent, "we had fun, joincing along in the wagonand singing with poppie above the rattle and bang of the empty barrels."
If I were in the prairie times I would like the chores for a little while but when I got to the animal chips I would start disliking that chore but I’ve always wanted to live on a farm or in a house that had a farm or barn in an area near that house and then I could start taking care of animals in the barn/ farm because if I show that I’m really responsible I might get to take care my own horse. But I wouldn’t mind that much to be in a homesteading family but just a bigger house well at least for a little while. Here’s a quote from the reading selection, “ At the age of three kids got to start by picking up chips for fuel.
If I were in the prairie times I would like the chores for a little while but when I got to the animal chips I would start disliking that chore but I’ve always wanted to live on a farm or in a house that had a farm or barn in an area near that house and then I could start taking care of animals in the barn/ farm because if I show that I’m really responsible I might get to take care my own horse. But I wouldn’t mind that much to be in a homesteading family but just a bigger house well at least for a little while. Here’s a quote from the reading selection, “ At the age of three kids got to start by picking up chips for fuel.
In the homestead family a good thing would be that you would never be bored because you are working all day long. Now the bad things you live with your whole family lives with you in a one room house and you would be tired all day also your house would be made out of sod. Now to me that isn’t the best life to have.
I think that the best part about being a child in a homesteading family is that you learn how to be independent and how to be strong. The worst part is the fact that you work hard labor more hours than you get to sleep. Also, you can get hurt by the animals as Grace McCance (Pete) did in the story. An example from page 512 is, "As the heifer rushed her, Grace flattened herself against the hay, but the heifer gouged a deep cut from her hip to armpit.
The best thing in the prairee is that you get to expeiriance the wild life. The worst thing is that you have to wait to eat after the adults (if their is any food left). here is a quote from the story "the worst thing of all was to wait for second table and we had to hope that there was going to be food left for us."
I think that if you were a child on a homestead the best thing that could happen is a good year of crops and you make a lot of money. Then you could move out and afford a house in the crowded area's. The worst part could be if a huge storm hit and destroyed everything you and your family had. Then you would probably die of starvation, storms, or/and weather. Here is a example from page 504,” The noise of the roof being torn off the kitchen. When the storm stopped, the house looked like a sorry mess." That an example of a bad thing that happened, your house can get destroyed and you will probably die from the weather.
The best thing that happened when you are a child in a homestead is, that you can plant crops and if they turn out well then you have a lot of fruits and vegetables to eat. The worst thing that could happen as a child in a homestead is, that your house could could get burned or it could be hit by a storm. Here's a quote from page 504, "Poppie hunted for the roof boards that had blown away and set to work rebuilding the roof." I conected the quote to the part about Poppie finding all the roof pieces because they blew off the house because of the big storm.
I think the best thing about the praire would be working outside all the time. I think the worst thing would be having no neibors. If you don't have neibors when somthing happens you wont have any help. "Every one worked six days a week, incleding the childeren."
The two best things about living on the prairie would have been that you didn't have to pay taxes and there are no people around to bother you. The two worst things about living on the prairie would have been not having close neighbors and you have to work day until night. Here is a qoute to support my answer " aafter the storm had stopped, the house was a sorry looking mess."
The worst thing about being a child then would be that you would always have to work as what we say now is "HARD" and the best thing would be NO SCHOOL! Here is a quote from the story to support my answer "The hens would stroll the prairie for hours".
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