Chief Pontiac's War by Jeffery L Schatzer

Author:Jeffery L Schatzer
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781587266911
Publisher: Spry Publishing LLC

Research

University Auditorium—Today

Back in the auditorium it was getting close to lunchtime as we set to work. Miss Pepper ordered some pepperoni pizzas while we silently paged through the old history books.

“I found something! I found something!” Madison said as she jumped with excitement. “I found a list of all the stuff that happened in Pontiac’s war. It was in the appendix.”

“Appendix?” Ashley asked. “My brother had his appendix taken out. He was in the hospital for a whole week afterwards.”

“An appendix is a part of our body,” Miss Pepper said. “However, the word appendix has another meaning as well. Many books have what is called an appendix. When authors write books, they often share information about related subjects. They usually put this material in an appendix in the back of the book.”

Madison held up her book. “This book has an appendix like Miss Pepper said. The title of Appendix B is ‘A Chronology of Major Events.’”

“Very good,” said Miss Pepper. “A chronology is a timeline of when things happened. What have you learned by looking at this appendix, Madison?”

“Chief Pontiac had his council meeting with other chiefs on Wednesday, April 27, 1763. Robert and Professor Tuesday were at that place on the day before—a Tuesday. The appendix shows that the next major event is going to be something called a ‘siege’ at Fort Detroit.”

Ashley screwed up her face. “Miss Pepper, what’s a siege?”

“Well, the word siege is a military term,” Miss Pepper said. “A siege is when an army surrounds a fort. During a siege, those inside the fort can’t get out to get food, water, and supplies.”

“Oh,” Madison said. “The siege at Fort Detroit is supposed to start on May 6. The appendix doesn’t tell us what day of the week that is though.”

“That’s all right,” said Miss Pepper. “We can count on a calendar to figure out what day of the week May 6 fell on in that year.”

“There’s a better way,” Mrs. Finch spoke up. She held up her cell phone. “I’ve got the internet on my phone, and I found a web site that has a ‘day of the week’ calculator. If we plug in the date, month, and year, it will tell us the day of the week.”

Miss Pepper was excited about the discoveries. “So, we know the dates when things happened, and we know how to find the day of the week. Now we need to try to find something about ‘turtle.’ And,” Miss Pepper noted, “we need to figure out the GPS coordinates for the places we’ll need to visit.”

“GP what?” asked Louis.

Mrs. Finch went to a map. “GPS stands for Global Positioning System. On most maps, you’ll see lines that go north and south. There are also lines that go east and west. The lines that go north and south are called ‘longitude.’ Those that go east and west are called ‘latitude.’” Mrs. Finch traced the lines with a pointer.

“These lines are all numbered. Satellites orbiting the earth can locate any place on the planet using GPS coordinates.

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