http://blogs.dalton.org/younge Come on in! Mon, 01 Mar 2010 19:57:38 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Two years ago (November 2007), Ms. Farnsworth and Ms. Younge took a little trip down to the Sea Islands of South Carolina where they attended a Gullah Heritage Festival at the Penn Center. It was amazing! They cracked crabs, drove through miles of gorgeous marshes, listened to blues, learned ... http://blogs.dalton.org/younge/2010/03/01/going-down-south-to-the-gullah/ Over the next few days we will be studying the Amistad.  We will look at two primary source documents in particular: one, an article entitled "The Amistad Captured", which was published in the Charleston Courier and New London Gazette, and the other, excerpts and profiles from John Barber's 1840 book ... http://blogs.dalton.org/younge/2010/02/22/tracking-the-amistad/ In 1789, Olaudah Equiano published The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African. Younge House is currently reading an adaptation of this book (written by Ann Cameron) as we begin our study of Forced Immigration and Slavery in America. His story ... http://blogs.dalton.org/younge/2010/02/17/slavery-through-the-eyes-of-olaudah-equiano/ This week we started our unit on Forced Immigration and Slavery in America.  Ms. Younge told us about her great-great-great grandparents, Hiriam and Adelaide Young (a different family than YoungE) who were enslaved on a plantation in South Carolina around 1840.  They had 8 children who were also slaves, one ... http://blogs.dalton.org/younge/2010/02/04/slavery-in-america/ Today Younge House journeyed back to lower Manhattan  - this time to Chinatown. We visited The Museum of Chinese in America (MoCA), which just opened up in a beautiful new spaced designed by Maya Lin, and had a great time learning even more about the history of Chinese immigration ... http://blogs.dalton.org/younge/2010/01/29/chinatown-trip-delightful-and-delicious/ On January 22nd, our young authors and illustrators presented their completed oral history books to a host of family, friends, and interviewees.  After many months of hard work and creativity, it was wonderful to be able to show everyone the final products.  The audience was very impressed with the presenters' ... http://blogs.dalton.org/younge/2010/01/29/celebrating-authors-immigrants-and-the-land-of-opportunity/ Now Brer Rabbit was skipping down the road one day heading for his home in the briar patch when he...jumped through the door of Younge House! We have begun reading the tales of this trickster character and are enjoying his many mischievous adventures.   Did you know that these classic American ... http://blogs.dalton.org/younge/2010/01/29/brer-rabbit-is-loose-in-younge-house/ In social studies we are currently doing a mini-unit on the immigration of Chinese to the Americas. We have annotated the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 and now are learning about Angel Island, the much stricter West Coast version of Ellis Island.  It opened in 1910 and processed many ... http://blogs.dalton.org/younge/2010/01/15/movie/ Happy New Year!  2010 is off to a great start in Younge House.  Our Oral History Celebration is scheduled for Friday January 22nd so we have been focusing a lot of our energy on finishing our Oral History Books.  We are all busy illustrating images that reflect the stories our ... http://blogs.dalton.org/younge/2010/01/04/and-were-back-2/ More of our poems for two voices... http://blogs.dalton.org/younge/2009/12/29/choral-poetry-part-2/