Launch-Lesson 3

                         Stop and Jots

• Poor house and family.
• A long time ago.
• Goes to school with boys.
• Trying to teach each other.
• Jewish religion.
• Not in America.
• Lives with Grandmother.
• Jessie has to sew in America.
• Going to America is a big deal.
• I think Jessie is about 12.
• Jessie is afraid.
• Clothes and laces for warmth.
• ​Jessie gave Grandmother her mother's wedding ring.
• Jessie is sad, sick.
• Everyone on the ship is happy because it stopped storming.
• Jessie meets Lou.
• After 1885 .
• Amazed by the statue of liberty.
• We now know Jessie is 13.
• Living with Aunt K.
• Three coins payment.
• Their making money with wedding dresses.
• Jessie is now 16.
• She now is meeting Lou in the park.
• Lou asked Jessie to marry him.
• Grandmother comes to America with the wedding ring

Questions:

1. What did you think of this book? What did you like and what did you dislike?
2. This was historical fiction. What do you like about historical fiction and what don't you like?
3. When the book ended, what were you thinking about? What are you still wondering or wish you'd know more about? Why do you want to know?

Answers:

1. I like how it uses lots of detail. I disliked the the author made things sound sad.
   
2. I like HF because you can learn what life used to be like. I dislike it because I don't really like non-fiction.
3. I wish it would tell about her married life because it stops pretty abruptly.