Wednesday, May 27, 2009

Spring, 1806

Dear Mr. Jefferson,
The journey was the Corps at its best. The journey was America at its best. I have given you a wonderful expedition. I have written down most of my experiences in blogs, and have some discoveries too. I have sailed down the river in a keel boat, eaten 9 pounds of meat a day, been at Sgt. Floyd’s grave, met with the Teton Sioux, stopped at the Mandan villages and helped build Fort Mandan for a place to stay in the winter. I have also met Sacagawea, encountered Grizzly bears, sailed through the white cliffs, made it to the fork in the rivers and help decide which one to take. I also have helped carry the supplies up pass the waterfalls walking on prickly pear cacti. I helped but together Captain Lewis’s iron boat, and I have met the Shoshones and received the horses from them I have made it over the Bitter Root Mountains and Have Made it to the Ocean. I have helped built Fort Clatsop.
I have looked at my contract and I believe I should be paid with an A-. I don’t think my work the best, but it is pretty good and there are about enough there for an A. I have also brought a discovery back, but only one. I think overall I should be paid with an A-.


Signed,
Danielson
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1 comment:

  1. John SBJune 23, 2009 at 12:48 PM

    Dan, your journal was steady throughout. Your work was steady. The Corps could always count on you for discoveries made interesting and easy by your well-designed and detailed journal.

    In your final, you did a good job of summarizing some of your adventures and discoveries, but I was looking more for your comments on how the journey exemplified America and the Corps at their best. Check out Nick and Amanda's for more of an idea of what I was looking for. You didn't have to match or even agree with their conclusions, I just wanted you to contemplate a bigger picture. Often that's what finals do, attempt to have you take an experience and look at it in light of a bigger picture.

    I tried and tried to find a way to move you up into the A paygrade, but the averages kept coming up to a B+. A stronger final would have helped bump you up.

    Thanks for your hard work. I have enjoyed you so much since those first days we met up in the computer lab.

    I'm looking forward to your bar mitzvah. I hope you have a great summer.

    Love,

    (Captain) John

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