If only their flaying gestures and chilling voices would fan a breeze in your direction. It would at least provide more than just comic relief from the stress and tension of the day. Flies are buzzing, buzzing, buzzing. Your heavy clothes are sticking to your skin. President Washington is calling the meeting to order as you make your way down the aisle to your chair.
Today is the day of reckoning.
Today's decision by the group determines the fate of the document and of these thirteen United States. Assume you are the delegate at the Convention and write a private journal entry describing your reactions to the Convention's proceedings based on your text reading and class discussion. Show specific understanding of the compromises and other events and persons at the Convention in your writing. Stay in your role as a delegate throughout the writing. Source consulted for Guided Writing method is Dr. Joyce Honeychurch, Professor, University of Alaska, Anchorage, Alaska.