On this tour we have stopped to see the statues of many important people during the Revolutionary War. But did you notice that there’s no women statues? This is wrong. In this part, I’m going to teach you about an important woman during the Revolutionary War, Deborah Sampson.
CHAPTER 1
Deborah Sampson's family was very poor. She was the oldest of 6 children. When she was a kid her dad left, to go on a ship on the sea. That's why she was very poor. Because she was very poor her mom put her in another family, at 8 to 10 years old. And Deborah Sampson was an indentured servant, but when she was an indentured servant, the boss’s kids taught her what they learned at school. She was a very good learner, so good that even if she never got to school she became a teaher, but she wanted to join the war.
CHAPTER 2
Did you know that Deborah Sampson dressed like a man? But she had some challenges! She really really wanted to join the war. So she went and she took every day some time to learn to be like a man: she learned to act like a man, she learned to eat like a man and she also learned to speak like a man. And she only stopped when she could even trick her mom. And she was lucky she was also tall for a girl. That helped her, so when she joined the war young men just thought that she was a little bit small. But she had another problem ,it was that she didn't have any mustache, but she was still lucky the boys just thought that she was a young man.
CHAPTER 3
During the war, Deborah Sampson got shot and got a bullet in the leg. She was suffering, rolling herself on the floor, but she's suddenly stopped it and started thinking that “If I go to the doctors they will maybe find out that I am a girl and they maybe will kill me. ”So she sat down and she clenched her teeth and dug her finger into the wound and got the bullet out of her leg with her own hands. Many days after, she got really sick, the army made her go to the doctor. She had chance when the Dr. realized that she was a girl and not a boy, he kept the secrets. Some years after he said the secret but because Deborah Sampson helped, the army didn't kill her but they gave her $4 a week until she died.
CHAPTER 4
Today I'm going to teach you about why Deborah Sampson was important. My 3 reasons that prove that Deborah Sampson is important is: She never gave up, she's a pioneer, and she was brave during the war.
Deborah Sampson was important because she never gave up. For example when she was a servant the boss' kids was learning her what they learned at school. It was really hard for Deborah Sampson to learn what they would be teaching her because she never went to school. But she kept trying and finally she became a teacher. Another example that proves that Debra Simpson never gave up : she wanted to be a teacher and she became a teacher, and she wanted to join the war and she joined war.
Another reason why Deborah Sampson was important is that she was a pioneer. My first example is: she was the first woman that passed like a man. And my other example it's that she was the first woman that dressed like a man and learned to act like a man, eat like a man and also speak like a man and go to war.
Another example of a proof that Deborah Sampson was important is that she was very brave during the war, an example that proves it is: she went to war with a bullet in her arm. Another example that proves that Deborah Sampson was very brave during the war is: when she got a bullet in her leg she took it off with her hands!
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