(Of course, not only my initials were on the actual copy.) We first recorded an interview with a tape recorder. Then we transcribed the interview by hand. My transcription was about eight pages. We wrote a lot of drafts and then drew skeches. My point is, we did a lot of work on the book.

Now we are studying forced immigration. A good example of that is slaves being brought back from western Africa. Half of them died on the journey, and were thrown overboard without a thought. They were all in chains for the whole ride. The ones that survived were sold at a slave market and treated very badly. My class recently read a book called Amistad Rising. It was about a person named Cinque who was taken from his home in Sierra Leone into slavery. I won’t tell you the rest or otherwise you might not read it and just take my word for it. Another book is called Henry’s Freedom Box, which is more about a true story, unlike Amistad Rising, which is a good story but only based on a true story.

That’ll be it for this post! I’ll make another soon. Here’s a sneak peak. The next is about a historical fiction book called How I became an American. There’s your sneak peak. You want more? Well too bad, you can’t have more! Bye!