Sing It!
This is why you can’t scare me.
What is "I'm stickin' to the union"?
This was the common way that schools dealt with students who didn’t speak any English.
What is place students with a much younger class?
On Hester Street you could buy vegetables, fish, kosher meats, and almost anything you could need at these portable stores.
What is a pushcart?
We hiss, boo, and rattle graggers to block out the name of this evil advisor to the king.
Who is Haman?
This game is on Zoom because of this plague that has currently befallen us.
What is COVID 19?
or What is Coronavirus?
This person is instructed to "Go down, way down in Egypt land to tell Ol' Pharaoh, to ..."
Who is Moses?
This was the reason girls in the tenements rarely played with dolls.
What was because they had to take care of baby siblings and dolls were expensive?
This container was used if you did not want to go to the tenement outhouse during the night.
What is a chamber pot?
This Jewish hero was floated down the river in a boat of reeds as a baby, and grew up to lead his people out of bondage in Egypt.
Who is Moses?
Scientists hypothesize that this first plague may have been based on the phenomena of the red tide, which is caused by a red algae bloom.
What is waters turned to blood?
And everyone 'neath their vine and fig tree, shall live in...this.
What is "peace and unafraid"?
These were 2 games played by children in the tenements.
What were baseball, potsy, tag, playing in the open hydrant spray, and pulling pranks?
Apartments were very crowded, but if you couldn’t pay your rent you made room for one of these.
What is a boarder?
This king refused over and over again to free the enslaved people of his land.
Who is Pharoah?
This third plague still haunts many elementary schools and is a real head scratcher.
What is lice?
Come along, little children come along. Come while the moon is shining bright. Get on board, little children get on board, we're gonna...do this.
What is "raise a ruckus tonight"?
Besides giving children an educations, schools served this important purpose.
What was providing health care and meals?
This provided children with some fresh air and relief from the crowded tenement apartment.
What is a fire escape (or roof)?
This prophet, a friend of the poor and the oppressed, is said to appear as a poor man to see if he will be well treated.
Who is Elijah?
This sixth plague is thought to be based on the disease of smallpox, which has been found in Egyptian mummies from 3,000 years ago.
What is boils?
Come on up, I got a lifeline, come on up to this train of mine. She said her name was...this.
Who was Harriet Tubman?
This wandering street musician often traveled with a monkey in a little suit.
What was an organ grinder or hurdy-gurdy man?
These were two ways that settlement houses assisted new immigrants.
What are: taught English, helped find housing and jobs, provided childcare, provided visiting nurses to homes and schools, taught after school programs, provided meals?
This sister of Moses is represented by the cup of water at the seder table.
Who is Miriam?
Scientists postulate that this ninth plague may have been due to a solar eclipse or volcanic ash in the air.
What is darkness?