After a quick explanation, he after school History Arts Group study took one quote from the Battle of Bunker Hill: "Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes." We thought that to be a most interesting quote, and we had to think about what it meant and why it was declared. The Patriot soldiers at Boston's Bunker Hill only had five musket balls and limited gunpowder at their disposal, so they could not afford to waste their shots. They had to conserve their ammunition, so they were told to wait until the British soldiers came closer before shooting.
In a more positive vein, each student constructed an eye, complete with eyelashes and eyebrow. Inside the eye, instead of a cornea and pupil, they recreated a holiday scene found on one of the dozens of cards I have collected through the last several years. We were very pleased with the final products.
