Work was hard to find and new immigrants worked in dangerous industries such as steel mines in PA or sweatshops in NYC. While immigrants tried to preserve some parts of their own cultures, most wanted to assimilate. Large immigrant neighborhoods quickly developed in NY, Chicago, San Francisco & other large cities. These groups faced discrimination in the U.S. - especially from the nativist movement that had opposed immigration since the 1830s. New laws to slow immigration were passed such as Chinese Exclusion Act in 1882 & the Immigration Act of 1917. American cities grew rapidly after the Civil War. By 1910, nearly half of the population lived in cities. After 1914, a large number of African Americans began to move to Northern cities. We discussed life in tenements and slums in the cities, how people began to escape to city suburbs. We concluded with a look at the new architecture, infrastructure and transportation systems in cities. Time was also spent on helping Bella with her profile on Rosa Parks which is due tomorrow. Bella also wanted to discuss Putin's attack on Ukraine. She is understandably concerned and had a lot of questions about it.

We began the lesson talking about Rosa Parks, who is many ways considered to be the mother of the Civil Right Movement of the 1960s. Bella is going to do more research about Rosa Parks (she has a lot of info. that we printed for Bella here at school last Friday, 2/18.) Tomorrow, we will work on how to present Ms. Parks and Bella said she will ask Sam to help her tonight with a slide presentation.

3-4 Arithmetic Sequences – We learned to model real-world situations with arithmetic and geometric sequences both recursively and explicitly.
Assignment: Complete the assigned problems for homework.

We reviewed the elements of a high-level compare and contrast essay for the following prompt:Write a compare and contrast essay that discusses the traits of a positive and negative friend. Make sure to write a clear thesis statement in your first paragraph. Begin with a quote about friendship. Bella then made an outline for her thesis and supports. She researched a quote on the topic to begin the essay and then began writing. The essay will be completed in tomorrow's session.

Bella opted to work on her art project.

We went over her homework. We then learned about molar mass so we can convert between moles and mass.

3-4 Arithmetic Sequences – We learned to write arithmetic and geometric sequences both recursively and with an explicit formula.
Assignment: Complete the assigned problems for homework.

Bella worked on two sets of vocabulary today.

She worked on the vocabulary for the 50 word test that is quickly approaching. She did this by studying flashcards at first and later by helping to write the test.

She also worked on her chapter vocabulary. She did this by using the Cerego computer program.

Her familiarity with the vocabulary continues to steadily improve.

We practiced converting from mole to representative particles and vice versa.

Bella reviewed the novel and its themes. She gave a summary of the novel read so far. We continued by reading, analyzing, and discussing the next two chapters. She then wrote to analyze the character development of Kya. We completed the session by reviewing SAT vocabulary being studied.