{"id":449,"date":"2012-04-04T04:41:43","date_gmt":"2012-04-04T04:41:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thecrimsonroad.com\/?p=449"},"modified":"2012-04-04T04:41:43","modified_gmt":"2012-04-04T04:41:43","slug":"sam-the-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ourauthenticfamily.com\/index.php\/2012\/04\/04\/sam-the-man\/","title":{"rendered":"Sam The Man!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sam the Minuteman<\/h3>\n

by Nathaniel Blenchley<\/h5>\n
Pictures by\u00a0Arnold Lobel<\/h5>\n
\u00a0An I can read book\u00a0\u2013 Level 3 (Grades 2-4)<\/address>\n

Click here to hear me read the book to you:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=fhNeFHL441I&feature=youtu.be<\/a><\/p>\n

Long ago, over two hundred years ago, there were only colonies in America which were ruled by England. The English King made a rule that the colonists must pay tax on ordinary things like tea, sugar and paper. This made the colonists very mad, so no one drank tea. They decided that they would drink coffee, they would drink water but they would not drink tea! \u00a0They were not allowed to vote, but they were forced to pay taxes. One day, in 1773, many boats bringing tea came to Boston. \u00a0The Patriots sneaked up on the ships and threw all the tea into the water. This was called the Boston Tea Party<\/a>. This made the King angry. From that day onwards the English army was against the colonists.<\/p>\n

One of the colonist families was the Browns. One day, they heard that the English soldiers were coming to Lexington, the place they lived. Sam Brown<\/a>\u2018s Dad was a Minuteman. They were ordinary people who had to be ready to fight on a minute\u2019s notice. The American Revolution<\/a> was about to begin in 1773. Sam was also asked to become a young Minuteman. He had to stop being\u00a0afraid so that he could help the other Minutemen fight for their freedom. Paul Revere was a brave man who went on a horse all over to tell people that the British soldiers<\/a> were coming. He was a silversmith and a patriot.<\/p>\n

The British soldiers were called Redcoats<\/a> or Lobster Backs because of their red coats. There were thousands of Redcoats and very few minutemen. They soldiers came and fight all night. Eight Minutemen died. Then, suddenly, the Redcoats left. While they were fighting, Sam Brown\u2019s friend John got hurt when a bullet hit his leg. Sam\u2019s fear changed to anger. His Dad helped John home. When Sam got home he told his Dad that he would shoot each soldier! His father told him that he might have the chance to do just that if the war began. But his mother said that he is not going out there again. When the British soldiers returned, Sam\u2019s mother wanted him to stay in the house. But it was too late, Sam had already got his gun and run out after his Dad. The Revolutionary War had begun. It lasted 8 years! The colonists did not know that this war was the start of their fight for independence of a new country \u2013 the United States of America<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Since 1777 Americans have celebrated their independence day on the 4th of July. Some people like to bring history back, so they dress in costumes and act like important people. Others have barbecues and have fun watching fireworks. It is a fun national holiday in the USA!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sam the Minuteman by Nathaniel Blenchley Pictures by\u00a0Arnold Lobel \u00a0An I can read book\u00a0\u2013 Level 3 (Grades 2-4) Click here to hear me read the book to you: http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=fhNeFHL441I&feature=youtu.be Long ago, over two hundred years ago, there were only colonies in America which were ruled by England. The English King made a rule that the… Continue reading Sam The Man!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,71],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book","category-story","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ourauthenticfamily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ourauthenticfamily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ourauthenticfamily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ourauthenticfamily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ourauthenticfamily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.ourauthenticfamily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ourauthenticfamily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ourauthenticfamily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ourauthenticfamily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}