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I’m a 4th grade student of the Dalton School in New York City and I’m here to tell you about the Edinger house study of forced immigration and slavery. We did this study for a long period of time. It went for a couple of months starting in January, so basically the whole winter. The reason we studied forced immigration and slavery in the first place is because of the following:
1. It’s part of the curriculum because a while ago all that the students studied was immigration and then they decided to study forced immigration because it’s really important.

2. For learning one’s history

3. And last but not least because they are important facts that you should just know.

I’m sure by now you’re wondering how we did the study, right? Well, we had many different ways of learning. We read Ms. Edinger’s online book about Margru (if you would like to learn more look for a previous blog post about it) who was forced to immigrate because people took her away to become a slave. We also read lots of picture books and stories such as the book about the Amistad, which is a slave ship and the people on the ship to give us better ideas of why people were forced to immigrate. Then we really switched over from reading to presentations. A student brought in things such as dolls, beads that they sometimes used for money, and clothes and cloth materials with special dyes from Mali. Our teacher Ms. Edinger brought in clothes, a couple of dolls, and things used for money from Sierra Leone. (Those are both places in Africa.) So from them bringing in things we could learn more, since a lot of people who were forced to immigrate came from Africa. Then, Natasha Tretheway, a fantastic poet, came in and helped us write poems of our own about forced immigration/ slavery with the help of reading Ms Edinger’s book. (If you would like to see my poem and collage, look further down for a blog post titled “Kagne Poem”)

I really enjoyed this study because I got to learn a lot of really interesting and cool information that was really worthwhile and will help me for years to come. I also thought that this whole study was fun to learn because we learned by doing many things like writing and looking at artifacts and slides. I thought that this was a good study for me because we learned some things many different ways and I think it helped me and made things more clear. If everyone had the opportunity to learn about forced immigration this way I would rush to learn about it! It’s a fun thing to do! J To leave you with something special here’s a quote from a fellow classmate, “It was a very interesting thing to learn yet it was sad to see how some people were treated and how they lived.”

I’m a 4th grade student of the Dalton School in New York City and I’m here to tell you about the Edinger house study of forced immigration and slavery. We did this study for a long period of time. It went for a couple of months starting in January, so basically the whole winter. The reason we studied forced immigration and slavery in the first place is because of the following:
1. It’s part of the curriculum because a while ago all that the students studied was immigration and then they decided to study forced immigration because it’s really important.

2. For learning one’s history

3. And last but not least because they are important facts that you should just know.

I’m sure by now you’re wondering how we did the study, right? Well, we had many different ways of learning. We read Ms. Edinger’s online book about Margru (if you would like to learn more look for a previous blog post about it) who was forced to immigrate because people took her away to become a slave. We also read lots of picture books and stories such as the book about the Amistad, which is a slave ship and the people on the ship to give us better ideas of why people were forced to immigrate. Then we really switched over from reading to presentations. A student brought in things such as dolls, beads that they sometimes used for money, and clothes and cloth materials with special dyes from Mali. Our teacher Ms. Edinger brought in clothes, a couple of dolls, and things used for money from Sierra Leone. (Those are both places in Africa.) So from them bringing in things we could learn more, since a lot of people who were forced to immigrate came from Africa. Then, Natasha Tretheway, a fantastic poet, came in and helped us write poems of our own about forced immigration/ slavery with the help of reading Ms Edinger’s book. (If you would like to see my poem and collage, look further down for a blog post titled “Kagne Poem”)

I really enjoyed this study because I got to learn a lot of really interesting and cool information that was really worthwhile and will help me for years to come. I also thought that this whole study was fun to learn because we learned by doing many things like writing and looking at artifacts and slides. I thought that this was a good study for me because we learned some things many different ways and I think it helped me and made things more clear. If everyone had the opportunity to learn about forced immigration this way I would rush to learn about it! It’s a fun thing to do! J To leave you with something special here’s a quote from a fellow classmate, “It was a very interesting thing to learn yet it was sad to see how some people were treated and how they lived.”