Immigrant Children
This was the most popular sport among immigrant children in the street.
What is baseball (or stickball)?
Some immigrants got work carrying this substance to city neighborhoods. This substance would then be bought and carried to a box to keep it from melting.
What is ice?
If I am coming from Korea to the United States, I am ________ from Korea.
What is emigrating?
This biome is known for having a lot of trees and not much else. Thicker, rainier versions of these are called jungles.
What is a forest?
Name one of the secret dress-up days from last week.
Sports Jersey Day, Sparkle/Glow Day, Denim Day, Zoom Meeting Day, and Anything But A Cup Day
Immigrant children were not placed in schools based on age, but rather this ability that often put them with much younger American kids.
What is the ability to speak English?
Immigrant women would sometimes set up shops in their homes where they would repair clothing or make products with the help of their children. When many people worked in these spaces, the shop was called this.
What is a sweatshop?
If I am coming from Korea to the United States, I am ________ to the United States.
What is immigrating?
This biome is very dry and does not have much moisture in the soil. Rain is also very uncommon.
What is a desert?
This is the country that our guest speaker, Mr. Santy King, is originally from.
What is Laos?
Schools in the late 1800s and early 1900s had students learn this skill by identically copying words written by their teacher on the blackboard.
What is handwriting?
People that sold low-quality or fake products and claimed to cure diseases or have other exaggerated effects were salesmen known by this term.
What is a snake oil salesman?
This is the type of home that many immigrant families lived in. They were styled as very cramped but functional apartments.
What are tenements?
Often described as prairies, this biome has nearly no trees or woody shrubs but still has grass and flowers.
What is a grassland (or savanna)?
Mr. Tuckey gives out six keys at the end of each school year. Name one of the things that you can potentially receive a key for.
What are Respect, Kindness, Diligence, Asking Questions, Having High Standards, and Creativity?
Kids often formed friend groups that protected a certain territory or "turf" together. These groups, sometimes violent, were known by this term.
What are gangs?
This is the type of "line" that many factory workers did jobs on. These "lines" made production of things like cars much quicker to put together.
What are assembly lines?
Expelling an undesired person from a country is also known by this term.
What is deportation?
This biome is the coldest type of biome found on Earth's land. It can be found in places with permafrost on the ground, like Alaska and Siberia.
What is a tundra?
What type of pipe does Frosty the Snowman have?
What is a corncob pipe?
Children who graduated or left from normal schools would sometimes go to a different school that allowed them to learn specific job skills, like teaching or welding. These schools were known by this name.
What are trade schools?
Organ grinders often hit the streets to make money by playing music. This is the type of furry companion they would often bring with them.
What is a monkey?
This is the term for someone who sells something from door to door on the street.
What is a peddler?
This biome has above-average moisture that makes it very similar to places like swamps, bogs, and marshes.
What is a wetland?
This is the item that Kevin McCallister throws down the stairs into the face of the wet bandits in the first Home Alone movie. That'll leave a mark!
What is a paint can?