We Are Patriots

We Are Patriots

By: Delaney Steinmetz 5E

The Revolutionary war continues to rage in Vally Forge, Pennsylvania, which is too close to Hope's home. Her papa and brother finally return. But she finds out that Papa had joined the Sons of Liberty. Hope fears that her family is in terrible danger.

This story begins in Valley Forge, Pennsylvania. Hope and her family live there. On her tenth birthday, Hope's mama gave her a diary. It is made of beautiful blue fabric and carefully sewed in paper pages. Hope writes in her diary every day. And Hope's mom gave her a brass locket, inside there is an ink drawing of Papa and a lock of his hair.

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In this book there are many characters including Mr. Dean, Hopes' uncle. He is in charge of the house when Papa is gone. Miss Sarah, a young widow who lost her husband in the war because he died of wounds and now she always wears black dresses. And Polly Adams, is Hopes best friend who actually turns out to be a Loyalest like her parents.

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"HEY!"

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"rebel!"

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In this book there are also many settings. Here are some of them, Hopes house were Hope lives. The dressmakers' house were Polly and Hope secretly meet because Polly's parents think that Hope is a "rebel" so they can't talk anymore. And, the school house were Polly and Hope go to school.

In this book, I learned that life was hard as a child and as an adult too. The children always have work to do. They may need to milk the cow, feed the animals, help run an inn if their parents own one, or cut wood for the fireplace and many more. Adults need to take care of their children and their family. They might need to write letters to people, go to another village to buy supplies for their inn or tavern, or just make money. The women cook, wash clothes and help around the house. The father is the leader of the house. He needs to keep children from getting in trouble, make rules for the house and hunt for food.

Papa and Hope's brother, Dylan was in the Sons of Liberty. They were there for the Boston Tea Party, the Boston Massacre and the battle of Vally Forge. Dylan was standing close by at the Boston Massacre and he watched it all happen. Papa and Dylan watched the other two together. None of them got involved except in the Boston Tea Party, they helped with that.

There were many problems in this story. But, The most important problem I think is that Father is a wanted man. The British think that he is a spy but, he's not! When Father comes home to hide, he is found by the British hiding in their lawn. So, he goes to jail for a few weeks but then, Father convinces them that he is a lonely farmer with no family and they believed him!

Manners were very important back then. The way people dressed was also important. Men and boys wore collard shirts and ether shorts or long pants. Girls and women wore long and fluffy dresses. Many of people in the village that Hope lived in went to church so they had clothes called Sunday Clothes. The Sunday Clothes were white collard shirts, belts and black pants for boys and for girls there was huge pink, purple blue, red, etc colored dresses. For manners young girls were expected to use hanker sifts, use little dainty gloves and etc. Boys were expected to put their napkin on their lap when eating, etc.

People ate pretty much the same thing as we do now but it was a little different. They drank tea and ate bread and jam. Some other beverages were coffee, orange juice, milk and chocolate milk. Hope ate pork, chicken, fish, and bacon for dinner. And they had small cakes and cookies for desert.