Cotton Mather was born in 1663 in Boston, Massachusetts. Cotton Mather, his father, and his grandfather were all Puritan ministers at a church in Boston. Witchcraft was very prominent in the 17th century. People would blame many events on supernatural causes and on witches. All Cotton Mather wanted was for the colonies to return to …
Monthly Archives: May 2023
English 7 #155: The Odyssey
The Odyssey begins in Troy, where the Trojan war ends. Odyessy is trying to go back home to Ithica. We read chapters 9 through 12, which is a summary of the book from before. So we only read up to when Odysseus tells the people of Thriancia his story. After leaving Troy, a brief stop …
History Lesson #150: 13 Colonies
Virginia was the first colony, founded in 1607. It was the location of Jamestown, the first English settlement in America New York was the second colony to be founded, in 1626. New York supported itself with the fur trade, and was originally owned by the dutch, before it surrendered to England. Massachusetts was founded in …