Tiffany says 11/6/09

Hi Ms. Separ!! I'm not sure if this is exactly what you wanted, but i triedd =] Friday, November 6, 2009 - Today was a very interesting day in Mrs. Separ’s seventh period WHAP class. As usual, Connelly complained about his grades, and as usual, Mrs. Separ shut him up with witty remarks that he could not think of comebacks for. Our homework, which I’m sure we all did marvelously on, was collected and is now on Mrs. Separ’s desk with everything else she has to grade. We got a homework assignment that we are being quizzed on this Monday; hopefully Cory has time in his schedule to take notes for it. Most importantly, we learned about the Atlantic Slave trade. We went over documents from the packet we had gotten on Thursday, and got the big ideas. The Portuguese at first were too weak to take over the people of the Kongo, so they set up trading posts along the coast. They were friendly to the Africans and traded goods and slaves with them, but then started going against the rules the Africans had set up. The Portuguese started taking some of the Kongolese free men, and even some of the nobles and important people in society. The African king, Afonso, writes the Portuguese ruler a letter as a “brother” asking to end the trade, but the Portuguese refuse. This is the start of the inhumane slave trade. The next blog post will be done by . . . drumroll please . . . Bob Rosen.