Poll Answers

1)How many times did Liberty Bell crack?
B)Twice times: Once on being tested, the next Washington's Birthday

2)When did the first Bell finally come far from repair?
B)George Washington's Birthday

3)Who fixed Liberty Bell?
A)Whitechapel Foundry: It was sent back after John Pass and John Stow failed twice, they didn't succeed either
B)John Pass: with John Stow, they fixed it twice before giving it to Whitechapel Foundry to fix. They tried the third time.
C)John Stow: with John Pass

4)Why was the Bell created?
B) As a symbol of Anti-Slavery
C) As a symbol of Freedom
D)50-year anniversary of William Penn's 1701 Charter of Privileges

5)How many names did Liberty Bell have?
F)7

Why is there the Liberty Bell?

Teacher-Open your text books to page one-ten.

[Students search desks, taking out their text books, pages rustling]

Teacher-Read up to page one-twenty.

[Complains roused up the room. Soon everyone quieted down and only the fan's whirling hummed in the room]

[The teacher sat in her desk, took a drink of the melting iced water. She fanned herself with a folder]

*Few minutes later*

Teacher-Ok, kids, if you didn't finish you'll read it for homework-

[Interrupted by students groaned]

[Teacher grins] Teacher-Oh, ok, so one homework is too little for you. I guess I'll throw in Math
Skills book pages-

Students-No!

[Teacher nods pleasantly] Teacher-I would've thought so. Now would some like to tell me what the passage was about?

[Students look bored and sweaty, none raise their hands]

Teacher- Fine. I'll choose for you.

[Teacher searches the faces of students. Her eyes lay on a boy who's eyes she noticed had been wondering throughout the class the whole time]

Teacher- Jake, what did you read?

[Jake looked at the teacher blanked faced]-I didn't read anything...

[Teacher about to speak]

[Hotly Jake adds]-Why do we have to read this anyway? It's the past, it's done and gone...and it’s boring.

[The teacher was not surprised with the response]Teacher-It may seem like that but our past is much the same as our future. Without it nothing would have happened, what happened on the past made up now and what is going to happen in the future.

Jake-But Ms. West, if we keep going to the past we will never progress to the future.

Teacher-Quite the opposite Jake, if we didn't look into the past we would keep making the same mistakes that our ancestors have done.

[Jake rolls eyes]-Like what?

Teacher-There's quite a few mistakes that the men and women in the past made, since we are in the seventeen-fifty's, I'll explain. There is John Pass and Stow, if they didn't look into the past they would have done the same mistake they did when they tried to fix Liberty Bell.

Jake-Why did they even make the Bell? It just ended to be broken, no one uses it anymore, why not throw it away?

Teacher-Good God! Throw it away! Liberty Bell was more than any ordinary bell! Liberty bell was symbol for--ironically despite its name-- was a symbol for Anti-slavery. If Isaac Norris, back then didn't take action into making this bell for the State House and for so many reasons, Jake you and your family might still be treated the way slaves were treated. Just because of their color. I would be kept as a slave even.

[The class was silent for a few minutes]

Jake-Ms. West, if that’s the reason why is it called Liberty Bell?

Teacher-It's called Liberty Bell because over the years from being a present to celebrate the fifty year anniversary of William Penn's seventeen-oh-one Charter of Privileges to a anti-slavery symbol. During its time it was turned into a symbol of hope for freedom. How it got its reputation I am unsure of...maybe if you read the text book you'd find the answer to that. How about it? You have until the end of class.

[Jake's head fell into the book. He started to read]

Glossary

If you have any words that you think you might not know or that others might not know, comment on this post of which words are unclear.


Earnestness - noun-

1.	serious in intention, purpose, or effort; sincerely zealous: an earnest worker.

2.	showing depth and sincerity of feeling: earnest words; an earnest entreaty.

3.	seriously important; demanding or receiving serious attention.

4.	full seriousness, as of intention or purpose: to speak in earnest.

Obtained from Dictionary.com

Poem Review

"There was a tumult in the city In the quaint old Quaker town, And the streets were rife with people Pacing restless up and down- People gathering at corners, Where they whispered each to each, And the sweat stood on their temples With the earnestness of speech.

As the bleak Atlantic currents Lash the wild Newfoundland shore, So they beat against the State House, So they surged against the door; And the mingling of their voices Made the harmony profound, Till the quiet street of Chestnut Was all turbulent with sound.

"Will they do it?" "Dare they do it?" "Who is speaking?" "What’s the news?" "What of Adams?" "What of Sherman?" "Oh, God grant they won’t refuse!" "Make some way there!" "Let me nearer!" "I am stifling!" "Stifle then! When a nation’s life’s at hazard, We’ve no time to think of men!"

So they surged against the State House, While all solemnly inside, Sat the Continental Congress, Truth and reason for their guide, O’er a simple scroll debating, Which, though simple it might be, Yet should shake the cliffs of England With the thunders of the free.

Far aloft in that high steeple Sat the bellman, old and gray, He was weary of the tyrant And his iron-sceptered sway; So he sat with one hand ready On the clapper of the bell, When his eye could catch the signal, The long expected news to tell.

See! See! The dense crowd quivers Through all its lengthy line, As the boy beside the portal Hastens forth to give the sign! With his little hands uplifted, Breezes dallying with his hair, Hark! with deep, clear intonation, Breaks his young voice on the air.

Hushed the people’s swelling murmur, Whilst the boy crys joyously; "Ring!" he shouts, "Ring, Grandpa, Ring! Oh, ring for Liberty!" Quickly, at the given signal The old bellman lifts his hand, Forth he sends good news, making Iron music through the land.

How they shouted! What rejoicing! How the old bell shook the air, Till the clang of freedom ruffled, The calmly gliding Delaware! How the bonfires and the torches Lighted up the night’s repose, And from the flames, like fables Phoenix, Our glorious liberty arose!

That old State House bell is silent, Hushed is now its clamorous tongue; But the spirit it awakened Still is living-ever young; And when we greet the smiling sunlight On the fourth of each July, We will ne’er forget the bellman Who, betwixt the earth and sky, Rung out, loudly, "Independence"; Which, please God, shall never die!"

This poem had importance the way it was. This poem explained why the bell rang and what did it stand for. Although I already said what the Liberty Bell is for, this explains the excitement the people of Pennsylvania on July fourth, the day that our Independence was spread out to the public. The poem even sounds like it was explaining the newly borne freedom that they obtained. Liberty Bell was just the notification of their new start of a brand new beginning

Liberty Bell (Obituary)

No more than bronze copper, tin, small amounts of lead, zinc, arsenic, gold and silver, it was the symbol that stood up for, the ironic message of anti-slavery and abolitionists attempt to be a slave free nation and for Proclaiming "Liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof..." Liberty Bell's reason still roams with us today.

Liberty Bell was the joy of knowing that our independence was officially ours. It lived out to be ninety-four years out old before the hairline crack took away all its chance to ring again in proud song of our now free land. Liberty Bell suffered so many injuries from rough handling, being re-casted with too much copper, re-casted again, and another recast, until at final ring on February 22, 1846 did the crack become far from repair for our dear Liberty Bell.

Liberty Bell still has its purpose even though it hasn't rung over one hundred and sixty-two years. Still in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, may Liberty Bell's spiritual ring ring forever.

Word Find: "Bell Find"

Welcome. How good are your eyes? How fast is your brain? Can you find these words? Find the words below. See how fast you can find them. Compete against your friends. Who can find the words first? Near the due date the answers will be revealed. Please excuse the messed up formation

Bell Find

Q Z W G F E I Q N W P Y G M J X O R L D
W J H W J O H N S T O W E H Y I L U W J
B B A H Q L A H U G V J O D G V F E X B
R Z Y I Y S D K F E M I R U K B L E Z A

A D Z T F T K J M H J E G O A R I L V E
I N S E W A E O I J Z I E X S P B I B B
H K U C R T H H W R K S W Y E I E B O E
P V Z H M E F N G D O A A P L R R E B B
L D C A F H Q P A N O A S L R I T R F M
E G Q P B O I A G I A C H V A Y Y T G S
D C D E Y U O S O S I N I V H J B Y Q T
A L R L V S V S V A N O N B C R E Y X O
L S Q F Q E N Q U G A R G A T D L E B I
I C K O R B D Q G Q V R T Y R D L L O S
H H S U I E F G P F L I O Z E J K L L D
P G K N N L N K U P Y S N W B N V N D R
U N W D W L H C V N S W O P O R T D B D
K O D R K F Q Z T F N M F W R T X F E M
B D Z Y D R L N L F E C Y E X D S P L L
D P U R M F K K P Z P G J X G Q M H L J


LIBERTY BELL/ JOHN PASS/ WHITECHAPEL FOUNDRY/
JOHN STOW/ ISAAC NORRIS/ STATEHOUSE BELL/

ROBERT CHARLES/ GEORGE WASHINGTON/ PENSYLVANIA/
OLD BELL/ PHILADELPHIA/ OLD LIBERTY BELL/

P.S I'M SORRY IF THE FORMAT WAS MESSED UP BY BLOGGER. SOLVE IT IF AS WELL AS YOU CAN.

How Many Names?(Feature Article)

There is one name that we commonly use for the Bell that has been featured in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Liberty Bell has been with us since 1751. During back then and now, Liberty Bell wasn't always Liberty Bell. In fact, it actually has seven different names.

Starting from November 1752, that's when the bell was made, the bell was known as "State House Bell." So formally named for it was made to be placed in The Pennsylvania Assembly ordered the bell for the State House. It was also made in merit of the 50-year anniversary of William Penn's 1701 Charter of Privileges. The next name was most popular around 1852; it was then called the "Old State House Bell". After Seventy-five years it seemed fitting to the bell.

It was in 1846 through estimated 1854 that the bell started to be known as the "Old Independence Bell". Old Independence Bell was the bell's title until 1848, and so was "Old Bell" and "Bell of Independence". "Old Bell", however continued on through to 1884.

"Old Liberty Bell" was later picked up around 1877. Go back a few years, in 1839 then ending back in 1893, the name we now use--"Liberty Bell" was adapted. From 1893 we come to now the present with the name "Liberty Bell".

The story behind Liberty Bell's many names has been unveiled from under the giant text book.