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The Ticonderoga and the book connect to my speech because of the connection with the topic of Strength and Independence. In the book, Ned wants to join the army but his parents don't want him to because he's too young and they don't want to lose him. During this, Ned does want to be independent of his parents for a few seconds but then he obeys his parents and doesn't join the army. For strength, there are two pieces of evidence and analysis over there------------>.
The Ticonderoga though, I don't really know how to connect the boat to the book or my speech. But, I do know that the boat is really strong so that's one thing. The people who brought the boat from the lake to the Shelburne Museum were very strong so that's another plus. I don't know the history behind the Ticonderoga so I'm unable to answer this.

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I think that Code Talkers connects to the Ticonderoga and the Train because on the Ticonderoga, even though this reason is a very small connection, it works. So, the Ticonderoga was used for bringing people back and forth across the lake, just like the "alligators" in the book who brought soldiers back and forth between base camps. The Train, on the other hand, brought important or rich people across the United States to places where they needed to be. The Train is very classy and fancy on the inside which symbolizes that normal middle-class people didn't ride on the Train. This is like the time when the white people in the book were the ones who were shown more respect and were the ones who people overestimated more than the Navajo people. They were favorited by the people because they had more money and thought to have more education than Navajo people, who were thought to be mainly farmers, thought to be poor which lead to people thinking that they had less education than white people.

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This teacher thinks that Navajo people are just farmers and don't learn much since they don't have many schools where Navajo's live, it was common back then to think that Navajo's weren't smart.

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Since Ned and the other Navajo's are used to carrying heavy luggage and walking long distances for work in the village that they lived in. They already have the physical capabilities to do all of the training that the sergeants put them through.

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On page 61, Ned and the other Navajo's with some white recruits hike for five miles with heavy luggage. For Ned and the other Navajo's, this is easy for them. But, for the white recruits, they were struggling the whole way.
"One of boot camp is to take young men who are out of shape and make them physically fit...A five-mile hike in the sun was easy for us Indians carrying heavy packs was nothing much for a Navajo used to walking twenty miles to the trading post across a hot dry landscape to carry a hundred-pound bag of flour back home."

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On page 88, there's a quote where a teacher is being to Ned for being Navajo.
"Class, do you see this foolish little Indian boy"..."He is wasting his time looking at places he will never go instead of studying his math. He knows nothing about the world. He will never be smart enough to do anything except herd sheep."

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Ned Begay is very strong when faced with obstacles like racism or physical obstacles like hiking five miles with heavy luggage.

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I picked the train also for this project

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When we went to the Shelburne Museum I picked the Ticonderoga.

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I picked the book Code Talker. The author of the book is Joesph Bruchac

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Pg. 84

Pg. 34-35
Pg. 24

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The protagonist in my book is named Kii Yazhi. He's described as being short but has a big heart. His great-grandfather describes him as such.