Tuesday, December 1, 2015
Life Before Jackie!
~We are learning about the harsh and unfair beginning of the Jackie Robinson and his family. We are then taking evidence from out text to support our thesis statements about life for "colored" people in America before Jackie Robinson became a professional athlete. Did you now Jesse Owens won 4 gold medals for America, yet restaurants in the South would not serve him. Joe Louis won the Heavy Weight Championship of the World yet he could not get a room in ahotel in most major American cities.
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this is an actual boat used to smuggle Jews across the Kattegat ~How did the majority of Jews in Denmark escape to Sweden? The Jews were smu... -
~We finally met the boy in the striped pajamas from The Boy in the Striped Pajamas . His name is Shmuel (pronounced shmoo-el). He is ... -
the Schuylkill River in Pennsylvania where Maniac's parents died the train trestle where the P&W Trolley had its famous ...