Wrapping Up Dig This 08, Sadly

This is Kenny, Aidan, and myself working together during the first week, I like this picture, because it will always remind me that we worked together and how good of friends they were during Summer Session.

As summer@andover wraps up, I recall what I learned, and my experiences here at Andover. With Dig This coming to a close, and everyone prepares their goodbyes, I remember some of the very excellent topics and skills I learned here at Andover.

My favorite idea that I learned here at Andover, was the Indian Boarding School system and the BIA. How this system start by Richard Henry Pratt was the key tool in starting a genocide on Native American culture and also the major tool in assimilating Native Americans. Another idea I learend at Andover was King Philips War, which is one of the 3 major wars that I found very interesting. How the war was started because Philip (Metacom) was angry at the white settlers, and how his ancestors traded, and were good friends with the settlers. My third idea that I learned at andover was more about the Salem Witch Trials. This topic is very interesting to me and I hope to learn more about it in the near and far future.

I think the most important skill I learned at Andover was the ability to create a Higher Order Question to enchance your ability to write a presentation. Another important skill I learned was how to do a succesful archaeology dig and how to create a Test pit, it tempts me to go home and dig one myself! And finally, the third important skill I learned was how to be even more independent here at Andover. It taught me how to improve my time spent at homework and when I should divide my time to be more organized.

Thank you Mrs. Tully and Mr. Newhall and Ms. Wilson for a GREAT experience at Summer Session. I hope to see you all again in the near future if I am accepted into Philips Acad. Thank you and I will miss all of you, it was a great experience here at Andover and I want to come back for high school, it was a great 5 weeks. Thanks!

~Anthony Namnum of Dig This: Unearthing the American Past