Wednesday, December 17, 2008

ROAR blog ( Cuba Today )

Table talk

Comments:
1- Cuba's fishing fleet increased a great success from the revolution

2- Raw materials in Cuba were scarce but there after the revolution increase rationally

3- Cuban laeders confess they wouldn't have survived economy wise without the socialist world

4- a principle that cuban people a re always united in their struggle for Liberty and independence

5- Cuban is fairly segregated ( in schools )

Questions:
1- What did one man's testimony prove ?

2- If colored people helped Cuba fight the revolution why are they segregated ?

3- What is the "socialist world" ?

4- Why was that young 17 year-old so hostile and inpolite toward Lee ?

Vocabulary:
1-Exploiting: An act or deed, especially a brilliant or heroic one

2- Decree: a formal and authoritative order, esp. one having the force of law

3- Consensual: formed or existing merely by consent

Literary terms:
1- exposition
2- simile

Overview sentence:
Hositality in Cuba is very important because, it shows great honor and during hard and scarce times Lee notice how differnt it was for families to keep this principle. This chapter is also about bi-racial families who marry and racial problems in Cuba due to segregation.

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