The Lake and Park Times
Lake and Park School
3201 Hunter Blvd S
Seattle, WA, 98144
www.lakeandparkschool.org
Volume 4, Issue 2
February 2017
We Want Immigration to Continue
by Ken and Leah
Why do people immigrate? People immigrate
because if people didn’t immigrate they would
either starve to death or have health problems.
What is immigration?
Immigration is when people move to another country on horseback, foot, or train.
When they reached the west they boarded a steamship and headed to Ellis Island
in New York. Now most people fly to the United States. President Trump is trying
to ban immigrants from Syria, Libya, Sudan, Somalia, Yemen, Iran and Iran.
We believe the U.S. should allow immigration for the following reasons:
1. So immigrants can have a safe life.
2. So they can be free.
3. So they are able to have a Doctor.
4. Without immigration the US would lose talent and workers and the good
ideas people have.
In the history of our country we have been able to immigrate to the U.S.A. and
having people immigrate here makes the U.S.A. a great place for everyone.
My Experience with Marching by Griffin
In January, our class learned about the
March on Washington in 1963. People were
marching because African Americans did not
have freedom and jobs. They marched to
together for each other, equality, and equal
rights. We help other people by marching and
we continue to march today.
This year, I went on the MLK March
and the Womxn's March with my mom and my
friends. My experience with the marches is it’s
kind of scary marching because there are many
other people you don’t know. For example, at
the Womxn’s March there were an estimated
150,000-175,000 people! But it’s really cool
that you’re marching for a good cause.
With all the adrenaline rushing
through you. It’s really fun. It’s kind of weird seeing some of the signs, and some
of them really show people's feelings. It’s really powerful seeing all the signs. It
really makes you want to do what they say. I may not understand some of the signs
but it means a lot to some people. I've been to two marches this year here's some
examples of some signs I saw. These are some of the signs I understand. M.L.K
march:
“Hate has no home here” and Womxn's March: “Were just as good as anyone.”
This civil rights unit has helped me understand. I didn’t know most of the stuff that
happened in the 1960s. It helped me understand why protests are still important. I
plan to protest for what I believe in the future.
Martin Luther King, Jr. and Civil Rights
A Group Story Written by Children in the Beginning Room
Martin Luther King is awesome because he
helped change the laws.
He told everyone to fight with words, not fists.
He made speeches. “Black people need to
have freedom.”
He taught the world to be a better place.
One day he made a big speech about civil
rights. “Black people and white people should
join hands someday. “
We made signs. We marched down to Mt.
Baker Park and stood at the edge of the
road. We held signs for freedom, civil rights,
and “Happy Birthday, M L K”.
Remembering MLK´s words by Keefe
Ever since I heard Martin Luther King´s “I Have a Dream” speech I've been
amazed how he helped to end segregation. It surprised me how he used peace in a
protest that could have ended in violence. Each and every quote he wrote had a
meaning like “Faith is taking the first step when you do not see the whole
staircase,” which I think means you’ve got to have trust with yourself and each
other. I feel grateful for him because he helped us remember that if we do not have
a voice in our country it'd be like we're not even here. So, let's make America
greater! Let us make America what it stands for.
Worker’s Rights by Keira
Cesar Chavez is an important person for
worker’s rights. He was born in in Yuma, Arizona in
1927, and he was from a very poor family of migrant
workers. These workers were called migrant workers
because they moved from farm to farm looking for
work to do.
In the 1940’s, 50’s, and 60’s workers worked 8 to 10 hours or more. They
weren't treated fairly because there were no bathrooms in the field, and the workers
didn’t have fresh water. Cotton pickers were paid only 5 dollars a day or less. Some
people did not want to go to work because they would not get paid well so they hid
from the police. Sometimes they could not feed their families because they weren't
paid well. On the farm land the workers protested but the farmers they worked for
drove tractors and they choked the workers from the dust of the tractors.
Chavez wanted people to protest because the workers got bad work
conditions. He wanted people to protest by not buying grapes from California, and
it worked. Because of the protest, migrant workers got paid more, and got health
care. This is important because if they got hurt in the fields, then they could go see
a doctor. Cesar Chavez died in 1993 and is an important person in worker’s rights.
He made a difference by helping migrant workers and all workers.
The History of Jim Crow by Elan
Barack Obama By Pippa
Barack Obama was our president
for 8 years. He was a great influential
leader. He used his years as president to
create all sorts of services such as
Obamacare. It’s a health care insurance
service designed to help people get good
health care so they don’t have to pay a lot
of money. Barack truly believed that the
bad things in the world could be changed
if we try hard!
He grew up in Hawaii with his parents his mother was white and his dad
was from Kenya. When Barack was little his mom taught him all about honesty,
kindness, and especially working hard to achieve your goals. He grew up to be a
senator and admired M.L.K! First, he wanted to be a preacher, but soon he realized
that he wanted to do more than preach. Barack Obama has made many inspiring
speeches and some of them even inspire me!
After a while many people came to believe that they wanted him to be their
president! People asked him over and over again, but he didn't say anything. Then
finally on February 10th, 2007 Barack announced that he was running for
president! And he won! Barack Obama became the 44 president and the first
African American to become president of the USA.
In 2017 Barack Obama stepped down as president, not because he was
forced to but because his 8 years of being president were up. I am sad that he is no
longer our president anymore, but I believe that he will continue to make change
in our world! I might! Anything can happen!
The Jim Crow Laws were laws that started segregation between black
people and white people in the south between 1877 and the civil rights movement
in the 1950s & 1960s. The name “Jim Crow” came from an actor who painted his
face black and then acted rude to make fun of blacks. If you ask me that is a pretty
rude thing to do. I wonder why he acted like that. Racism turns people to
evil. People who are racist today make horrible speeches. I want people to realize
what they are saying. I think people who give speeches should consider
everyone’s feelings and not say racist things.
These are some of the Jim Crow laws:
1. White only schools & black only schools
2. Black only water fountains and white only water fountains
3. Buses were segregated
4. White only bathrooms, no blacks
These laws were wrong. They were not fair. The places for blacks were
not as clean or nice as the places for whites.
Martin Luther King, Jr by Rowan
Martin Luther King, Jr. was a good
man. He was a good man because he helped
black people get civil rights. He was shot on
a hotel balcony.
MLK by Rowan
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Jacob Lawrence by Eli
History of Slavery by Iris
Jacob Lawrence was born in 1917-2000 in Atlantic City, New Jersey. He did not
always live in New Jersey, he also lived in Harlem in New York. He moved to Harlem
when he was 13 and learned how to paint when he was a teenager. When he was 20 he
painted the world-famous Migration Series. There are 60 paintings, and they described the
migration of African Americans. The definition of migration is to move to a new place.
People moved because of the unfair treatment of African
Americans in the United States of
America. Jacob Lawrence made more painting to.
Some of his amazing paintings helped get past the
horrible race law that black could not do the same
as white. My opinion is Jacob Lawrence helped
move that law along with many other great
African-American leaders such as Rosa Parks,
Martin Luther King Jr and Booker T. Washington
and today everyone is happy and we all respect
the leaders who helped us along the way to
freedom and rights.
Slavery spans nearly every culture, nationality, and religion. From ancient times
to modern day. Slavery is tracked down to earliest records, back in 1860 BC when it was
most common among Egyptians. Egyptians main way of slavery was forced labor. They
would force them to build pyramids, mine, and do most dangerous tasks no one else would
do. The Egyptian Pharaohs became wealthy because of the work the slaves did.
Later slavery in America began. In 1619 Africans were brought to North America
to do farm work and forced labor. American slavery continued for 246 years until Abraham
Lincoln made a law to stop it. During those 246 years there were very important people
trying to stop slavery and unfair treatment in general.
There were people such as Sojourner Truth, a freed slave who in the 1850’s was
a very famous woman. She traveled far to give speeches on freedom and women's rights.
There was also Harriet Tubman. Harriet Tubman was a slave without any rights. Then she
ran away and began a new life. In that new life she risked it countless times to help other
slaves find freedom. She became the most successful conductor on the underground
railroad, and is an American hero.
But the most famous is Martin Luther King, Jr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was a
leader of the civil rights movement. He lead boycotts, marches, protests and gave many
inspiring speeches. He was a very important man. Even though slavery has ended a long
time ago there is still racism and discrimination. We have to work hard to stop it.
A Letter to John Lewis by Rees
Hellooo people reading this article! This month, I wrote a letter to John Lewis, a Civil
Rights activist who was the youngest of the Big 6. You can learn more in the article by
Julian. Here is the letter I wrote to him:
“Dear John Lewis,
We are a school in Seattle, WA and we have been studying the Civil Rights
Movement and recently we read about you! We are a class of 18 students. I am Rees and I
have some questions for you!
Also, I would like to say how amazed I am at your courage to keep going and
keep fighting for rights. You gave so much courage, and keep giving people courage, which
I think is awesome! You never backed down and kept fighting. You were filled with
determination to give your family a better life and a better life for everyone. You were very
brave and risked your life for the freedom of others. You were so young when you spoke
at the Lincoln Memorial and suffered multiple injuries and times in jail for the rights of
blacks all over the country and you succeeded. That is truly amazing. And I thank you for
making our country a place where people can speak out for our rights and the rights of
others.
Now for the questions!
What was it like to live in a time of segregation?
What was it like leading hundreds of people over a bridge and giving them courage?
What was it like speaking at the Lincoln Memorial?
Do you know why the speeches were held at the Lincoln Memorial?
I hope you get this letter and respond!
Sincerely,
Rees
Child Labor by Maisie
Child labor is a thing that happens around the world today. It is a treatment that is
not fair. It happens to kids who do not have power because of their gender, race, religion,
or country of origin. In some ways child labor is like slavery, children in child labor have
to work long hours in places like sweat shops, tobacco fields, cotton fields, their master's
house and only be paid $2.
Child labor is most common in poverty, countries with unfair governments and in
countries at war. People could work all their lives and then right before they are allowed to
be free are sold to another master who demands 10 more years of work. Children are often
sold from their parents and are put to backbreaking work alone. Kids are almost never
allowed to learn and are often beaten for not doing work I think is unfair. Their masters
often take advantage of their weaknesses, family issues, and emotional problems so that
they can convince the kids to stay as slaves even when the kids are allowed to go.
Often in child labor, kids do not have access to good health care so if they get hurt
they must hope they’ll get better if they get sick they wait it out, millions of children die
because of lack of health care and healthy foods.
Child labor is a horrible and unfair treatment that no kid deserves and is very hard to stop.
Since so many kids are in child labor it would take a very long time to stop it but some day
we will accomplish stopping it.
70% of the clothes, shoes and merchandise we buy is made by kids in child labor.
Stores like Target, Nordstrom, Gap, Adidas, American Apparel almost have all of their
clothes made by children in child labor. Every time we buy something made in child labor
we contribute to the factories that are forcing children to work. Most factories the children
work in are unsafe and are in bad condition thousands of children die each year because of
unsafe factories.
You can help by donating money to companies whose goal is to stop child labor.
You can tell your friends and family about child labor and inspire them to help, or you can
start your own company! I truly do believe we will someday have a world without child
labor, we just need good people to help stop it.
John Lewis Then & Now by Ayar & Liam
John Lewis was born in a miserable time. He lived with his brothers and sisters
and his aunt Seneva in a small cottage in Alabama. When John was five he took care of
over 50 animals on farm near Troy, Alabama where his family lived as
sharecroppers. They worked on a white man’s land in return for a place to live and a share
of the crops they grew. John loved his job. He loved to take care of the chickens the most
and he took that responsibility very seriously. When John was growing up people were
being segregated all over the southern U.S. It was against the law for black and white
people to be together, they could not use the same materials or go to the same places. He
realized that he should help, but his parents told him to not interfere with this, but he was
not listening. One day he heard Dr. Martin Luther King speaking and he was encouraged
by his words. Then he knew he had to join the boycott to help, some people stopped riding
buses in protest. He joined the boycott, and he started to study about nonviolence. He went
to protests but twice he was injured. Years of speeches and protests and black people were
finally getting more and more rights every year. Now John Lewis is a member of the
democratic party and a member of Congress. He has helped the people of the U.S and we
should all respect him.
How Trump’s Muslim Ban Violates the Constitution
by Maximilian and Ardin
The order Trump created concerns the defenses of the fourteenth amendment.
This order singles out individuals for their religion and country of origin by focusing on
seven mostly Muslim countries, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Libya, Sudan, Yemen and Somalia. Our
immigration laws don't allow such discrimination. This order raises religious concerns
including the ban on government forming of religion by telling immigrants from the seven
countries that they can't be Muslim to come into America. Luckily this order was
suspended. Hopefully Trump will get impeached because of this law and other choices.
John Lewis by Julian
John Lewis dedicated most of his life to civil rights acts. He was born near Troy,
Alabama on February 21, 1940. As a child, John's parents worked as sharecroppers. A
sharecropper is a job where they farm on a rich person's land and gets just a little of the
crops and the landowner gets most of it. John grew up fairly poor. At age five John, too,
began to work as a sharecropper and he took pride in his work. In his past time he would
listen to Martin Luther King, Jr on the radio. John felt very inspired and a little mad about
how blacks like him were being treated.
When John was young, every night John had to tend to the chickens and he would
preach to them. John wanted to be a minister and this seemed like a good way to practice.
When he was 21 years old he decided to step up for blacks’ rights. He felt that he was as
equal as anyone else and when he thought about it, he was astounded at how blacks were
being treated and wanted to help.
He soon met Martin Luther King Jr and they soon became friends. Mr. King taught
John how to fight without violence, and how to be calm in times of fear. One day when
John was with his Civil Rights Act groups, they got attacked by a lot of white people who
thought that blacks were incapable of many things. They were scared that blacks would
“take over democracy”. A white man hit John over the head with a crate. John then found
himself in the hospital feeling helpless and mad.
He still continued to do civil rights acts such as the Montgomery bus boycott, and
the 1963 March on Washington where he was fourth in line to perform a speech and Mr.
King was 9th to perform his famous “I Have a Dream” speech. John’s speech was about
jobs for blacks and how people would not employ them and how they needed to act now.
John played a very important part in civil rights acts, he still lives and serves as a
congressman from Georgia.
Segregation in Seattle by Boden, River and Lola
In 1920 the census says there were 2,894 black
people living in Seattle. In 1960 there were 26,901 black
people. King county is a county of livable places. The
founder of Boeing made northern Seattle all white. In
1960, Seattle was 92% white. More than 90% of
Seattle’s black population was pushed south into the
central district. After World War II, more black people
were coming to Seattle. It went up to 10,000 people.
Seattle was very far from southern segregation, but it
still affected Seattle because the supreme court ruled that
segregation was “separate but equal.” The southern part
of the U.S. had a lot more segregation than the north.
Drawing by River
Martin Luther King, Jr. by Harper
Martin was a Civil rights leader. Here’s his life: He was
born on January 15, 1929. His mom was a teacher. His dad was a
preacher. Martin was a good student. He was accepted at
Morehouse College when he was 15 and graduated when he was
19. After that, he went to Crozer Theological Seminary in Chester,
Pennsylvania. A seminary is a school where people learn about
religion. Two years into his time there, he became interested in
Thoreau, Gandhi, and their peaceful protests. He did not like
violent protests because he knew it would not help. After
graduating from seminary, he went to Boston University. There he met and married Coretta
Scott.
Action happened on December 1955. Rosa Parks, a black woman, took a seat on
a bus on her way home from work. The bus was filled with passengers and the driver told
her to give her seat to a white person. She was tired from working and did not give up her
seat. The driver called the police, who arrested Rosa. Because of her arrest, black people
would not ride buses until they had bus rights, which took 381 days. It worked, and blacks
got their bus rights.
On April 3, 1968, Martin flew to Memphis, Tennessee to give support to striking sanitary
work guys. The next day on his motel balcony, he fell, hurt by an assassin’s bullet, shot by
James Earl Ray, who later went to jail. Martin died. Even though he died, we still remember
him today because he helped a lot with the civil rights movement.
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The Most Important Things about the Life of
Martin Luther King, Jr. by Finn & Green
“My People” by Langston Hughes
The night is beautiful, so the faces of my people.
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January 15th, 1929 - MLK was Born in Atlanta, GA
June 1944 - MLK enters Morehouse College
February 1949- MLK becomes a Baptist minister
June 18th, 1953 - MLK and Coretta Scott are married.
October 1954 - MLK becomes a pastor at Dexter Avenue Church
June 1955 - MLK receives his Ph.D. in theology
November 17th, 1955 - The King’s had their first child
December 1st, 1955 - Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white
man
December 5th, 1955 - King led a yearlong boycott of Montgomery buses
January 1957 - Founding of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.
MLK is chosen president.
October 23rd, 1957 - MLK III is born.
February 1959 - MLK studies non-violent protest methods
February 1960 - Students in Greensboro prepare for sit-ins at the whites-only
lunch counter.
October 19th, 1960 - MLK is arrested after a lunch counter sit-in
January 30th, 1961 - Dexter Scott King is born.
May 1961 - “freedom riders” leave Washington D.C.
August 28, 1963 Martin lead the Civil Rights march on Washington and gave
his “I have a dream” Speech.
April 3 & 4th 1968 MLK delivers his last speech, “I’ve Been to the
Mountaintop” the day before he is killed.
Because he was a leader in the Civil Right Movement and it is important for us to learn
about it now because racism still exists today and knowing about this makes me want to
stop unfair laws and treatment of people.
The stars are beautiful, so the eyes of my people.
Beautiful, also, is the sun. Beautiful, also, are the souls of my people.
Rose and Tillie respond to a poem by
Langston Hughes. Rose with a poem and
Tillie with a drawing.
Response to “My People” by Rose.
The moon is beautiful, also is the hands of my people.
The sky is beautiful, so is the bodies of my people.
Beautiful also is the clouds. Beautiful also is the freedom of my people.
Where has liberty gone? by Ian
Liberty, liberty, where has it gone?
Liberty, liberty, why is there racism?
Liberty, liberty, why are whites so mean?
Liberty, liberty, why can't blacks do
anything?
Liberty, liberty, were has liberty gone?
Poem and drawing by Ian
Timeline by Green
Modern Slavery by Max
Did you know that slavery still exists? I know, it’s horrible. For example
sometimes people from rich countries will enter poor countries then promise people that
they will take them to a better place with less problems. Then they say that they have to
pay a debt for transportation into the country and make them work until they were no longer
useful. They might be forced to work at farms, as housekeepers, as fishermen or as
construction workers. Another form of slavery is child labor. Child labor is when kids are
tricked, sold or sent into work with very little or no pay. Probably the worst form of child
labor are child soldiers. Child soldiers are kids who are forced to fight. Another form of
slavery is forced labor forced labor is when someone is tricked into working without pay
usually promising them a good job with good pay. I think you need to know this so you
can do what you can to help these people.
Kaveh’s Trip to Pakistan by Roham
My dad’s name is Kaveh and he was born in the 1960’s in Esfahan, Iran. The
reason I am talking about him is because he is a refugee. By the time he was 18, he was
already on his way getting smuggled across the border.
The reason my dad left Iran is because he did not feel comfortable with the
government in Iran because they were abusing their power and that endangered the people
of Iran. So his dad asked if he wanted to leave to go to Pakistan to live there for a while,
since it was safer. My dad wanted to leave so he said, “Yes. I want to leave.” Next they
went and contacted some smugglers by asking around. They set a time and met at night at
the city square and brought $14,000 dollars: $10,000 dollars for the smugglers and $4,000
dollars for my dad so when he got to Pakistan he would not starve and be homeless. When
he left, he rode in a... (these are his words) “My trip to Pakistan involved different modes
of transportation; I rode in a car, a camel, walked, rode in the back of a pickup truck and a
bus.”
My dad's trip was very dangerous. My dad stopped at multiple places: he stopped
at a few roadside cafes, a house in a city called Zahedan, then his next stop was at a nomad
village on top of a mountain range that borders Iran and Pakistan, and finally a town called
Quetta in Pakistan. He did make it all the way to Pakistan unharmed, and lived there for 11
months. However, when he got to Pakistan he got word that one of the men that he was
traveling with just got shot by a young Pakistani man who was intoxicated. The man who
got shot died later that night at his house. This shows that it was still dangerous.
Then my dad moved to Washington State in the United States of America where
my dad’s brother was waiting for him. My dad was 19 when he left! Wow! Imagine leaving
your home country when you’re only 19! That is the story of my dad and how he got out
of Iran in times of danger and instability of government.
A History of Democracy by George
----509 bce--The Roman King was overthrown and the Roman Republic was started.
-----500 bce--Athens started democracy and soon other city-states followed their idea. But
there was a requirement for someone to vote.
----29 bce--Roman Republic ends because of civil war and is replaced with a triumvirate
and soon after replaced with the Roman Empire
----1215 ad--Magna Carta was signed by King John of England, and by English nobles
after uprising.
---1755-1769--Corsica became the first to offer universal suffrage for all people over 25
years old.
---July 4, 1776--The start of the USA, founded as a republic.
---January 2005--Iraq set up the first election after the fall of Saddam's regime, and all the
citizens could vote.
Knowing the history of democracy is important because you get an idea of the old
democracy. Democracy is important because it gives people what they want in government.
The New Colossus by Ted
The New Colossus was written by Emma Lazarus. In the first
line, “Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,” she is referring
to the Colossus of Rhodes which was made to scare people
away in Ancient Greece. The Statue of Liberty was made to
welcome people.
Emma Lazarus was born to a wealthy family in New
York City. Her family immigrated from Russia. She translated
German poetry when she was young. Her father secretly
printed her poetry at work. He encouraged her to do what she
wanted to do in life.
While I was reading the poem, I found the word ‘pomp’ and I didn’t know what
it meant. I looked it up in the dictionary and it means ‘arrogant and self-centered.” In line
9, she is saying keep your arrogant and self-centered people, but give America the people
who are self-less and poor. We don’t want to exclude people or anyone. We want to let
everyone do what they want to do and achieve in life. I would like to explain the last line,
“I lift my lamp beside the golden door,” which means the door is available to everyone.
The New Colossus was made to raise money to build the Statue of Liberty.
The New Colossus became so famous that it was written on Liberty's pedestal.
Emma Lazarus died in 1887.
Civil Rights Songs by Gus
We Shall Overcome is a civil rights movement song. We Shall Overcome was originally a
hymn by Charles Albert Tindley in 1900. This song is important because it symbolized that
if they kept marching and protesting they would eventually get their own rights.
The song: We shall overcome x2 we shall overcome someday oh, deep in my heart I do
believe we shall overcome someday.
We'll walk hand in hand x2 we'll walk hand in hand someday oh, deep in my heart I do
believe we'll walk hand in hand someday.
We shall all be free x2
We shall all be free someday oh, deep in my heart I do believe we shall all be free someday.
We are not afraid x2 we are not afraid today oh, deep in my heart I do believe we are not
afraid today.
We are not alone x2 we are not alone today oh, deep in my heart I do believe we are not
alone today.
"Keep Your Eyes on the Prize" (1950s-1960s) is a folk song based on the traditional song,
"Gospel Plow”. This song is important because it gave the blacks hope and motivation to
march and resist the police and mobs.
The Lyrics: Got my hand on the freedom plow. won't give nothing for my journey
now…Keep your eyes on the prize and hold on! Hold on x2keep your eyes on the prize and
hold on!
We fought Jail and violence too. But, God’s love has seen us through. Keep your eyes on
the prize and hold on!
Hold on x2 your eyes on the prize and hold on!
Work all day and work all night. Trying to gain our civil rights…
Keep your eyes on the prize and hold on! Hold on x2 keep your eyes on the prize and hold
on!
The only chain that a man can stand is the chain of a hand in hand.
Keep your eyes on the prize and hold on! Hold on x2
keep your eyes on the prize and hold on!
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Original Historical Fiction: The Diary of Akshita Park by Sophia
December 1, 1812: Mamma sat on the old rocking chair with the letter from the government
on her lap saying that anyone who stays in the country is staying at their
own risk. Mamma says it's rubbish and we have no need to move, but sometimes I think
the government is right. We really do need to move.
December 2, 1812: I cry while I tell you this. After I went to bed, I heard Mamma
open the door and by the sound of it, a whole group of loud rowdy people
came in. After a moment of silence, I hear Mamma come thumping up the stairs,
“Akshita! Get into the attic and stay there till I say it's safe to come down!” She sounds so
serious that I jump out of my bed right away and scurry into the hall. I turn left and
scamper up the sturdy wooden ladder
that leads to the attic. My older sister Saanvi is already there and we exchange scared
glances.
December 3, 1812: We wake up with the morning sun streaming through the grubby little
window. There's no sound from downstairs so we tiptoe down the ladder to the floor.
“Mamma?” I call. “Ssh,” says Saanvi, “They might still be here!” As we enter the kitchen
we see how much damage has been done. There are wood splinters all over the floor, pot
and pans are scattered all over the floor, bits and pieces of our china cabinet are strewn
all over everything, and, oh no, mamma she's sitting on the floor with her arms around
her knees. “Mamma,” we cry, “are you alright?”
“Come here,” she says in a raspy voice. “I need you to do something for
me. I need you to go to America.” She said this calmly but there is sorrow in her voice.
“Go, go…,” she says again, and then her head lolls on her shoulder and I know it's over.
Who was Rosa Parks? by Zoe and Rhea
Rosa Parks helped change the world. She was actually not the first
one to refuse to give up her seat on the bus in Montgomery,
Alabama but she is the most famous. You can see the bus stop
where Rosa got arrested on the night of
December 1, 1955. Rosa was riding the
bus home after work and she was tired.
After some stops the driver asked Rosa to
stand up so a white man could sit down. At
that time black people had to sit at the back
of the bus. Rosa thought of all the
Rosa Parks by Zoe.
unfairness and firmly said “No”. Rosa
Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat. It changed the
world because Martin Luther King heard about this. He got Rosa
out of jail so she could help him organize the bus boycott.
Rosa Parks by Rhea.
Civil Rights Crossword Puzzle by Finnian
December 4, 1812
We left the house last night and walked till morning. Then we slept.
‘When we woke up, we walked more. Saanvi is still trying to act big
so she can take care of me. I appreciate it, but I still don’t want her to.
December 5, 1812: I wake up with a start as the cold winter air hits my nose, but there is
another aroma mixed in with it. I look over and see Saanvi stirring a pot full of porridge.
Yay! I’m starving.
December 6, 1812: Yesterday we just walked. Today, we are at the main Korean docks so
we can get passage to America! At the moment my sister is very mad at one of the
managers. He said we must pay 100 dollars to get on, but we don't have 100 dollars.
What are we going to do?
December 7, 1812: We have decided to steal the money we need. Mamma always said
that you should never take from others, but if it is to save our lives then I'll do it.
I sneak into the house at night. I can hear the family breathing steadily, but I slip past the
bedroom without a second glance. I lift up the floorboard where they keep their money
and pull out the lock box.
December 8, 1812: Next day now and we are standing in line with our stone 100 dollar
tickets. I can’t believe we did it! We are finally on our way to America.
For the past week or so my reading group and I have been
reading a book called Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis.
It is about a ten-year-old black boy named Bud Caldwell and all the
struggles he faces on the search for his father. I really like this book
and I am going to share it with you.
At the start of the book, Bud is at his orphanage called The
Home and he is waiting in line for breakfast when one of the
orphanage caseworkers comes down the hallway and tells Bud and
his friend, Jimmy, that they are going to be adopted. However, they
are going to two different houses. Jimmy is going to go to a house with three little girls
(which he does not feel too keen about) and Bud is going to a house with a twelve-yearold boy named Todd Amos.
Once Bud got to the Amos’s house, Todd didn’t welcome him too well. Todd beat
him up when his parents weren’t looking and did not take the blame for it. One particular
time was when it was very late and Bud was being beat by Todd when Mr. and Ms. Amos
were asleep. Ms. Amos woke up and Todd made it look like Bud had started up his asthma.
It was a very hard life for Bud. Because of what they thought he did, he had to go to what
the Amos’s called “The Shed”. The Shed was the garden shed that was in the Amos’s back
yard. Bud is treated so badly that he decides to escape the shed and the Amos’s.
Along the way, Bud finds a city of homeless people, a man that “might” be a
vampire, and a band that becomes his family. I recommend this book for anyone at any age
and I hope you decide to read it.
The March on Washington by Nadia
The March on Washington was planned by A. Philip
Randolph just before World War II to protest the absence of
blacks in the defense industries which provided well-paying jobs
like building airplanes submarines and warships. They wouldn't
let blacks work because they thought it wouldn't be worth it to
pay black people because they thought black people couldn’t do
the job right.
To raise money for the march, people sold buttons and
held concerts and churches donated to. People came to the march
in buses and trains (cars were discouraged because of lack of
parking) there were a lot of people at the march. People carried preprinted signs that said
things like “I Am A Man” and “Gradually Isn’t Fast Enough.” There were also some
homemade signs that said things like “No matter how you polish it, segregation is dirty,
rotten, evil” which I think is right. During the march, Martin Luther King Jr gave his
famous “I Have a Dream” speech to 250,000 or a quarter of a million people.
I think the way that the way that white people treated black people back then is
extremely mean and unfair and I think it was right to speak out against it. Also, if I had
been alive back then I would have participated in the march. If you want to know more,
read The March on Washington by Kathleen Krull. It's packed full of information so I
would recommend it.
DOWN
1. Which Lake and Park parent escaped to Pakistan?
2. What is a word that describes a person who voluntarily
moves from one country to another?
3. This civil rights leader stopped unfair treatment to migrant workers?
4. A large movement of people.
6. Who freed India with non-violent protests?
7 Who’s art work is on display at the Seattle Art Museum?
8. This poet wrote The New Colossus.
10. A Georgia Senator who was friends with MLK.
12. What book did Jordi report on?
14. What is the act of saying We want freedom now!
True or False by Oliver and Teague
Did Barack Obama become the first African American president of the United
States ? True____ False ___
Did Martin Luther King get killed by a black man? True____ False ___
Was Rosa Parks one of the first black people to go to a white school?
True____ False ___
Did a person named Earl Ray kill Martin Luther King? True____ False ___
Did Rosa Parks say no to a bus driver for a white person to sit in her spot?
True____ False ___
Did about two hundred thousand people March on Washington in August 1963?
True____ False ___
Answers: 1: true 2:false 3:false 4:true 5:true
Bud, not Buddy Book Report by Jordi
ACROSS
4. These workers move from place to place to find jobs.
5. This air base let blacks work as human computers during World War 2
9. When someone is forced for work for no money.
11. Martin Luther King, Jr's "I've been to the ________" is a speech he gave
to the garbage men.
13. A. ________ Randolph was the person that organized the
March on Washington
15. What are the initials of the person who made the
“I Have a Dream” Speech?
16. What is the last name of the president who stopped slavery?
17. Who was president before Trump?
18. Who refused to sit at the back of the bus?
19. What book and movie tells the story of the unknown work done at NASA?
20. A person who is forced to leave their home.
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