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EDINGER HOUSE’S STUDY OF FORCED IMMIGRATION

From December 2006 through March 2007 Edinger House studied forced immigration and slavery. We did this project for a long time. I am about to show you some reasons we studied forced immigration.

1. It is a part of history
2. It is information you should just know about.

To study forced immigration we read the unpublished book, Africa is My Home by Monica Edinger.

Africa Is My Home is the story of Sarah Margru Kinson, a girl on the Amistad. If you do not know what the Amistad is, it was a ship that took a lot of African people to America to be slaves.

Africa Is My Home is not out yet but since Monica Edinger wrote it, the kids in her class got to read it, on a special blog.

The poet Natasha Trethewey came to our school to read some poems to us. The poems that she read to us were her friend’s poems. The poems that her friend wrote were about the slaves on the Amistad.

When Natasha finished reading the poems to us, a few days later Ms.Edinger decided the kids should write their own poems about the Africans on the Amistad.

The 2nd time Natasha came to Literary Salon to hear the poems Edinger House made. If you do not know what Literary Salon is, it is when you read books and eat treats. Instead of reading books, Edinger house read their poems.