Upon receiving below average English grades she worked twice as hard joining English study groups and taking extra writing classes. Sotomayor remained involved with her Puerto Rican roots joining multiple clubs including: Accion Puertoriquennia and the Third World Center. Sotamayor graduated summa cum laude and received the Pyne prize, which is the most distinct honor you can receive as an undergraduate. In the following year Sotomayor entered Yale law school. In 1980 after passing the bar she instantly started working as a district attorney covering cases such as child abuse, robbery and crime.
Her mom was a nurse trying to help the family. Edna’s mother encouraged her kids to be independent and appreciate books and music. When Edna was in high school, she was interested in theater. She performed many plays and even wrote a Halloween play that her classmates performed. When she was 20 she entered a poem called “Renascence” in a contest in which 100 poems were picked to be published.
It was originally built as a women's residence hall and remained so until 1980 when it became co-ed. Named after Dr. Elizabeth Peet who practically grew up in the Deaf Community. Her mother was deaf and her father was an educator of the Deaf. Her grandfather and father were successive principals of the New York School for the Deaf. After passing the Harvard entrance examinations, she stayed with her father until his death in 1889 and her mother passed on in 1891.
Susan learned to read and write when she was 4 years old. As a child, Susan saw that girls were treated differently than boys. Susan became a teacher and earned $2.50 a week. The man before her earned $10.00 a week. In 1846 Susan became the head mistress of a school in New York.
Rachel Louise Carson Life Begins Rachel Louise Carson was born on May 27, 1907 in Springfield, Pennsylvania, where she lived with her family. Her family was very poor, and she had two older siblings with which she shared a room. She was very interested in nature, which she claimed to have learned from her mother. She also loved to write. In fact, when she was ten years old, she wrote a story called St. Nick, that was published in a kid’s magazine.
Robert Cormier was born on January 17th, 1925 in Leominster, Massachusetts. He was the second out of eight children. The Cormier Family moved frequently to afford rent, but the Cormier Family never left their hometown. Robert attended a private Catholic school named St. Cecilia’s Parochial School. Robert Cormier began writing when he was in first grade.
Much of Barton’s education was provided by her older brothers and sisters, and while still a teenager she started to teach in Massachusetts. In 1850, she took a break to attend the Liberal Institute of Clinton, New York, an advanced school for women educators. She resumed her teaching career in New Jersey where, in 1852, she founded one of that state’s first public schools in Bordentown. She started this school with six students, and by the close of the year there were 600 attending.
Charlotte’s Family By Kate Gold Sequel to: True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle by Avi Preface: Charlotte was a 13 year old girl, which was being educated at the Barrington School for Better Girls, and was to travel over the summer of 1812 to Providence, Rhode Island via the feared ship, the Seahawk to her home and family. She was to have 2 other families take the voyage with her, but they claimed to have sick children at home, and she finds herself alone. Charlotte grew up learning good manners and refined character in her fancy home. On the ship, as passenger, she soon became a friend to both highly proper Captain Andrew Jaggery as well as lowly old black crewman, Zachariah. For these men, she kept herself well kept, often brushing her hair, her best feature, and trying not to soil her nice white gloves.
SUMMER READING AND ASSIGNMENTS 2013 AP English Language (DUE 1st DAY OF SCHOOL, AUGUST 2013 – NO EXCEPTIONS!) Assignment #1: Read the novel Breath, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge Danticat. The novel revolves around a mother and daughter and the experiences they have in Haiti and New York. As you read the novel, mark important passages that reflect how Martine and Sophie cope with their situations. In a well-written essay (no less than 3 pages and no more than 4 pages), compare and contrast the different relationships between the women in the novel (i.e.
After having such a traumatizing childhood, she still found a way to overcome the obstacles and become a novelist. Soon after their mother died at such a young age, the three older sisters, Charlotte, Elizabeth, and Maria attended religious school. In one of Charlotte's novels she claims that abuse took place in the school. Emily enrolled a little bit later than her sisters did. When typhoid fever took over the school, Maria and Elizabeth caught it.