Today in History we annalyze a photograph of Abraham Lincoln. This was not just any ordinary photograph, it was the last photograph to ever be taken of Lincoln before his assasination. Lincoln is pictured in this photo with a slight grin on his face and lots of wrinkles. A peculiar thing about this photo was the giant scratch in it, that some figured was an omen of his death.
Today in English we started the class with one of our grammar papers and then continued our discussion on the Anticipation guide. After this discussion was cut short due to our "bad behaviour", we were handed a paper to read with a partner titled, "A True Story, repeated Word for Word as I Heard it" written by Mark Twain. This was about a woman who was a slave talking all about the troubles of her life and being separated by her family thenb being reunited with her son, Henry.
This story was similar to the story of a picture we annalyed in History. "The Modern Medea" was a picture of a slave mother who had slaughtered her own children in order to save them from the horrors of slavery. These situatuions were similar because they both depicted a helpless mother that was doing everything they could to help their children out of slavery.
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