"Here at our sea-washed sunset gates shall stand, a mighty woman, with a torch . . . and her name, mother of exiles." This week, our classes learned about this mighty woman, the Statue of Liberty and the exiles that she welcomed . . . waves of immigrants who flooded into Ellis Island and the United States towards the end of the 1800's. The Lower Grammar class made Statue of Liberty crowns and torches. The Upper Grammar class did a Statue of Liberty art project and simulation. The Dialectic class started a two week, in-depth immigration simulation and the Rhetoric class discussed in depth the issues and experiences that faced the massive number of newcomers to America. The Five in a Row class read the book, "Gingerbread Baby." Then they made gingerbread houses!!
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