Sophs and Seniors: Week of 12-2
Sophs: Read The Greatest Generation up through "Shame." Write 3-4 sentence summaries for each section. This had been assigned before Thanksgiving break. For Tuesday's class, come prepared with your summaries---the Blue class should bring their TGG books to read silently during their block minutes. During your next class we will read a short passage from DeCrevecouer's Letters From An American Farmer, an early colonial book that first publicized specific ideas of The American Dream. A blog will be posted soon (journal #3) to be completed before Friday's class (all sections). We will begin reviewing on Friday for your next (pretty extensive) literature test to be held Wednesday, 12-11. You will get a review sheet soon.
Seniors: Blog #2 has been posted below--it is due on Tuesday 12-3, of course [this had been posted since 11-26]. This is a warm-up for your next creative assignment, which has already been posted at Studywiz if you're interested in working ahead. This week we will attempt to review for your next [largely objective] test on scene, summary, description, and setting (use and types of ...) to be given next Monday. Why so far ahead? Well, you have a penance assembly on Wednesday so the red class will definitely miss class and the purple class is likely to miss some of its class. I figure that we need at least two days (Thursday and Friday) to review for the test, give back some papers, and begin to prep ourselves for our next creative piece.
posted by JTF @ 8:31 PM
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“America is an asylum; a refuge for Europe's poor and downtrodden”
My great Grandfather Hugh McGinnis was born in a small town called Glencrow, in County Donegal, Ireland. He was the 7th of 8 children and according to the laws established by the English, the Irish could not subdivide their farms, so the farms were handed down to the oldest male child. He yearned to finally find a job, which were not all too common in Ireland. On March 23, 1907, when he was 21 years old, he boarded the Steamship SS Columbia to immigrate to the United States. He arrived at Ellis Island on April 2, 1907. The manifest stated that he would be traveling to Philadelphia to see his sister Catherine, who had been living there for several years. He stayed with her in Philadelphia before finding a menial job. He found work as a machinist and worked for many years at the old Atlantic Refinery on Passyunk Avenue before he retired. He married Mary Dunbar on April 26, 1911 and they went on to have 15 children. Even though he had a low paying job, he was grateful because America gave him the opportunity he needed to be successful and raise a family. He became a citizen of the United States on April 10, 1919. My grandmother grew up with stories of her grandfather, telling of his excitement and ambition in coming to the “New World.” America was truly an asylum for my great Grandfather because he found refuge when in Europe he could not.
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