Lizzie Borden took an axe,  

Gave her mother forty whacks. 

When she saw what she had done,  

She gave her father forty-one.

 

     During 1891 in Fall River, Massachusetts, the death of Lizzie Borden’s parents zoomed onto the headlines of multiple newspapers. People were questioned, others were accused. Who killed them? Why did they kill them? No one knows. The book, The Borden Murders by Sarah Miller, talks about the historical trial of Lizzie Borden. After inspection of the scene there was only one main suspect, Lizzie Borden herself. How could a mild-mannered young lady kill her parents? If she didn’t, who did? 

 

     This page was from day 11 when we learned about how to reread and do research on things we where confused or thought was important. i’m proud of this page because i tried to organize it to look better than my normal pages. My notes that day were about my research on Lizzie Borden’s love life and i learned a lot about how people thought of her love life and all the different rumors and possible lovers.

 

 

This page is from day four when we learned about informational texts and story texts. i liked how i got to fill the whole page and that i had the page organized into different sections so it was neat and easy to read. My notes i made where the pressure map but focusing on the central idea that Lizzie Borden’s had a wide range of emotions. I organized it so the good emotions are on the upper half above the middle line and the bad emotions and on the lower half under the middle line. the higher the emotions are, the better they are, and the lower that are, the worst the are.

 

 

This page was from day three when we learned about how to track complex thinking. i worked on tracking the central idea that Lizzie Borden had a very wide range of emotions, and i organized them into parts according to their page numbers.

 

 

This page was from day five when we where learning and preparing for the town hall formative the day after. I liked the theme we came up with because it was very wide and covered the main problems in our book.