This week, our studies into immigration continue for all of our Tapestry classes. The younger kids learned about the daily lives of immigrants and about the orphan trains that carried orphans to new families in rural areas of the country to join new families. The older learned about the business ventures and practices of Andrew Carnegie and also studied the problems facing the New South--such as poverty, segregation and racial hatred--all which were occurring as the people there attempted to rebuild. The Lower Grammar class had fun with paper dolls, which children of this time would have played with throughout their childhoods. The Upper Grammar class made Carnegie libraries out of cardboard boxes. The Dialectic class had a special guest, Kathy Keller, who is a genealogist and taught the kids about how to research their family histories--whether their ancestors came through Ellis Island, or came to America in some other way or at some other time. And the Rhetoric kids continued to work on their Presidential biography projects. The Five in a Row class read the book, "When I Was Young in the Mountains." They then made beautiful mountain paintings!
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