No Taxation without Representation!
Hello friends!
Welcome to 4th quarter! We hope everyone had a wonderful Spring Break and is ready to round out the end of the year! We came back to school this week ready to learn and excited to start our American Revolutionary War unit. We started our week with an online scavenger hunt about the causes of the Revolution and learned that there were many things that led the colonists to rebel. On Tuesday, I was Queen for the day!
My ‘colonists’ were taxed throughout the day for many reasons. Sometimes the reasons were just plain silly. But by the end of the day, they totally understood why the real colonists were so upset! I even found this note on my desk, with my pile of ‘money’!
I think they’ve got it!
Can you tell us any other reasons why the colonists were upset with King George?
Dear thy reader,
That day was tremenduse experence. It was a situation I would want to move to great Britain and become a worker for thy King George III. They had to pay taxes just for wearing jeans, ponny tails, and color clothes.Have you ever been a colonist being taxes.
Your colonist,
Rylie
Dear Queen Holmquist
I did not want to be alive back then when King GeorgeIII was alive. He taxed us for the color of are eyes.
Your slave Logan
Dear Logan,
That was a funny Title Slave. You should be a comedian.
YO FRIEND,
Cody
Dear Ms. Holmquist,
The colonists must’ve been severely angry when they had to pay taxes.
My experience of being taxed was terrible, we had to keep all of our money together so no one stole any. Then the queen taxed us for stuff like, hair color, eye color, and even your clothes. Another reason they were mad at King George III was because he was a bad man. Why do You Think they were mad at him?
The Taxed Colonist,
Cody
I agree with you Cody it was unfair. we should not be taxed by hair and eye color.
your BRO Rowyn
Dear Unfair Queen Holmquist,
Now all of us in Miss Holmquist that the colonists had a poor life. She taxed us every 5 to 20 minutes it was annoying.
From your student,
Carmen
Dear Miss Holmquist,
I’m happy that I was not alive when King George III was. King George III did lots of acts and that made the colonist mad. How old was King George III when he died and how?
your colonist,
Caleb
Dear reader,
I really enjoyed being the tax collector, but I did feel pretty bad for some of my friends. Queen Holmquist taxed the people with brown eyes! That one I felt bad about so I let the hazels go. There was a lot of people who didn’t want to give their taxes up and some people even made up excuses like: “I have contact lenses on, you can’t tax me for that!” Do you think you would enjoy being a tax collector? Comment below if you have more information about tax collectors.
Dear Hope,
I would’ve loved to be a tax collecter so I would be able to not have to pay taxes.
A Person,
Cody
Dear Queen Holmquist,
That day was amazing!
It was fun but some times I got mad when the bell went off and I always had to pay.
The colonists were mad at king George III because he would always tax them. The colonists would have no more money to buy things for there friends or there family or even there selves.
Your colonist,
Ciara
Dear Queen Holmquist, January 1776 23
Those taxes were unfair, we were taxed about what we wore, our eye color, and other things. I also think colonists were upset with King George III, because they thought they shouldn’t be paying so much for such little, and they were becoming in debt.
Your Colonist,
Talia
Dear Queen ,Holmquist
Now I have an idea how the colonist must have felt back then. I did not like it either. The colonist were mad with King George III, because he raised the price on everything they needed to survive.
your slave,Rowyn
March 23, 2016
Dear Queen Holmquist,
Yesterday was really a cool experience because our class had “money” and every like five minuets or so a timer would go off and Mrs. Holmquist would tax us like for our hair color or something.
From,
Cadie F.