This book called {Flesh and Blood So Cheap} is a non-fiction book that discusses the history of the U.S during the 19th century such as the the incident of Triangle Fire, Immigration to the U.S, how the U.S. developed over time, and more.  The author, {Albert Marrin}, uses variety of vocabulary and develops a hopeful yet unfortunate tone and mood to express the feelings that people felt during the 19th century. Furthermore, I highly recommend this book to readers who enjoy discussing or learning the history of the United States. We get to learn about tragedy of the incidents that happened in U.S and how the country improves over time.

 

The page below shows the central ideas, which was the first thing our class had started on, to gather and improve our skills in finding factual central ideas. We also worked on identifying hidden issues in the book to make our understanding of the central idea much more thorough.

Additionally, according to outside research,  it supports the central idea, “Immigrants found it hard to adapt to new environments, especially New York, due to harsh labor, strict rules within companies, and lack of safeness.” It also supports the theme: “To improve our life it is always required to go through negative outcomes” as the research shows unfairness and no freedom to immigrants during 19th century.

 

As we further went deeper into learning about analysis, we learned which kinds of elements are needed to show what the readers think of the stories and informative texts. We had to find several ideas to support our central ideas. I personally added several elements to help the readers understand and follow the logical flow that I’m trying to deliver.

 

Our class identified the meaning behind the text regarding what idea or message the author wants to deliver to readers. We were given the task to explain the mood and the tone of the texts that supported the central ideas. We also figured out how the author uses vocabulary to show vivid imagery to readers’ head.

As my last synthesized notebook page, our class discussed connections between parts of my book that seems unrelated. At the end, when I’m done connecting these ideas, I ponder wether these parts ADD TO or CHANGE what I have already learned.