Allusions!

This first week is really grueling, isn't it? My voice is already going, and it's only the third day!

Today in class, we talked about allusions in Davita's Harp. There are many, and as I read it, I imagined the history buffs among you were having a great time reading about real-life events. Groups came up with various categories of allusions during the List-Group-Label activity. Very common categories were "Related to Judaism" and "Related to Politics."

A few groups had slightly different ways of grouping, including the "Annas and Davids" group of 4th hour (it's comprised of two Annas and two Davids.) Their categories included: Imaginary Characters, Different Political Views and Ideas, Leaders, Related to Judaism, Positive Events/Organizations, Inspirational Men, and Negative Events/Places.

For homework, each student chose an allusion to research further using the EHS online databases. I suggested that ABC-CLIO and World Book would be the most useful of the resources for this particular assignment. Check the comments for the Usernames and Passwords for these, if you've lost them. Each student has to find a resource on his/her chosen allusion, read it, and print it.

Those who had to leave early from 6th hour can choose from the following allusions, which were not chosen by anyone else in any class:

Book of Psalms
Pilgrim Smith
Coup d'etat
Jerusalem
Debs
Sabbath
Basque
Yiddish
Hasidim
Chanukkah
Prayer Shawl
Rabinnical Judaism

See you tomorrow! And see your families at Open House tonight!