Easter Shopping at Levy's

Once a year, sometime before Easter, Grandma would take Westley downtown to Levy's Department Store on Broughton Street to buy one nice outfit. They use Levy's charge card and then paid a little bit each month.

On the shopping trip, the saleswoman would not serve them until after all the white customers had been helped. Westley had heard the saleswoman politely call the white women customers "Miss and "Mrs." But she treated his grandma as if she were a child, a nobody.

Westley's grandma pretended not to notice. She was polite. But she was also proud. "Come on,"she said, "it's time to go home." They left the store without buying a thing.

From "Delivering Justice: WW Law and the Fight for Civil Rights" by Jim Haskins

Mesopotamia Work Stations

Hi class,

This is one of our first full weeks back to school. We're going to get back and review all the hard work we've done on Mesopotamia before we begin our new unit on Egypt.

Please make sure that all work is submitted and that your notes are in order. I will be collecting everything on Wednesday. Then we'll review the various stations and get ready for a quiz early next week.

Stay tuned!

Hammurabi's Code

You are an advisor to Hammurabi and you need to suggest whether you believe the laws and rules of the land should be less severe for nobles, than they are with commoners.

In your Social Studies book, write a letter to Hammurabi stating your opinion on the matter. Remember to give specific reasons for your opinion.

Please have this letter in your notebook to be checked on Monday.

Watsons Go to Birmingham

We are about to start a new novel, The Watsons go to Birmingham. It's a historical fiction piece about the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s in America.

To start, I've asked you to write either a sentence or a fact about the 15 vocabulary words that you were given in class.

These are due on Monday.

Quiz: Walk Two Moons

We prepared for a quiz on Walk Two Moons by reviewing some questions in class today.

Look over the book and your response questions and be ready for a short quiz tomorrow.