Wednesday, January 13th

Top work from today's Social Studies assignment:

Prompt: Pretend you are an immigrant living in New York City in the year 1910. What is life like? Write a journal entry.

Hi, my name is Ramata. I am an immigrant living in NYC. Right now there is a war going on because white people are being prejudice to colored people. So now we do have an invention called 'subway' and we are all supposed to be able to sit anywhere but if someone don't give you a look someone else is stepping on your shoe. There's always a fight brought up. Life is hard. You don't get what you want , and especially being in the color group. It's not fair.

-Ramata

When I came from Phillidelphia to New York I looked for a job. When I found one, I started looking around and communicating with people. THere was a lot of different cultures in my job. I was surprised at all the new inventions that came out. THen the workers started telling me about the boss and how he prejudiced all of the invetions that came out.
-Malik

Being an immigrant in the year 1910 was very frustrating because us women doesn't have the right to vote or stand up for our rights. Now all that we can do is just work in factories and use inventions. But the only people is that there are no communications, I can't even call or send messages to my family. In my country I used to be a clothes designer, but now that I'm here in New York City I had to give it all up to work in a factory.
-Karina

I spent years and years trying to avoid the prejudice. We tried to celebrate our culture to make us cheer up, we communicate with people to tell them how we are living. People treat us like we are no people. We don't deserve what they are doing to us. We came here to get jobs and work so that we could feed our families back home.
-Ameera

Our neighborhood is filled with other people from my country and other countries. Our buildings are slums and unsafe. We have to use our pots and buckets to stop the raindrops from coming. The people in this country treat us differently. We get paid less. Today I went to the factory and injured my arm. My boss wouldn't let me have a few days off from work from my injuries. People started to form a union so that we can work safely.
-Louis

Great work! Excellent journal entries!!!