Category Archives: Grade 10

After reading the first few chapters of “The Cage” by Ruth Minsky Sender, I have now a better understanding of the jewish ghettos during the 1930’s and 1940’s. The ghetto during this time was described has “Unemployment, hunger, disease: They come together and spread the pain and misery. The Nazi’s order all machinery surrendered to them. No more factories. No more jobs” (Minsky Sender 24). From my understanding the ghetto is very cold and scary for the people, kids and families inside the barbed wire fences. There is no food but little bread and soup. People are sick but there are no diagnostics because doctors do not have any of the supplies that are needed to fix and mend them. People are dying every day from tuberculosis and other diseases. Like Ruth’s little brother Laibele, who is diagnosed with tuberculosis; Ruth has gall stones which doctors can not cure because none of the have any access to right remedies and supplies to help the sick, desperate people. Nazi soldiers are on guard everywhere with rifles making sure that no one has any chance of escaping the ghetto. There are no jobs nobody is making any money, no one can buy food and if no one can buy food than everyone is going to get sick and die. They get rid of schools so that no one can have an education.

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I have been working on creating a newspaper cover article for English 10. This article is based on the short story “The Tell Tale Heart” by Edgar Alan Poe. I also wrote one original article named “A Different Twist”.