“What does the title tell me?” This
is the first question to ask of any novel.
To help, you could ask these related questions as well:
What do I imagine the story is going to be about just
from reading the title? (You will want to ask yourself how accurate your guess
was after reading the first few pages or after each of the first few chapters.)
Is the title familiar? (For example, do you recognize
the words of the title from another book – such as the Bible or something you
read in school?
Do the words remind you of a movie you saw or a commercial or a
television program?
Does the title remind you of a proverb or other famous
saying?
As you read the book, do you see a connection between the familiar
words of the title and the story the author tells in the book?)
Stop by the Mediaplex, pick up a copy of A Raisin in the Sun, get busy reading, and join in a discussion here about your reading. Happy Reading! Ms. Zentz
16 comments:
Buisness Math
The money that they are recieving I would save half of it for hard times and spend the other half on the things that the family would need. I would get a bigger house so there could be more room for everyone to stay and etc.
Buisness Math
If i have that amount of money i would help the poor & feed the hunger people. I would also get the drug addcits off the street get them clean up and have a shelter for them to live in to bee safe and to stay off the streets
If i had 10gs I would Sit On it and make some more mula baby
Jz Business Math I think knowing that that is worth around 70k today I think that I would start up a small business and see if it succeeds and go from there.
The equivalent of $10,000 in 1958 is $79,000+ in today's money. If I had that much money today, I would do a combination of things;first I would invest a bulk of it, then save some, then blow the rest.
If I was the mama and had 10,000 dollars (that is 79,000 dollars today) I would first save some in a savings account. Then I would buy me a new house.
Busniess Math
This remaids me of the poem a Raisin in the sun. $10,000.00 in 1958 had the same buying power as $79,461.97 in 2012.
Annual inflation over this period was 3.91%.
I would put the money towards college and some to pay family bills.
The value of $10,000 in 1958 would be equivalent to $79'461 today! If I had that much money I would buy a car and give tithes to the church, etc.
I found the dollar amount on Dollartimes.com
-J.Lloyd
$10,000 in 198 is about 79,461.97 today. I would pay off all my bills and anything else that might need to be paid off. I would then save what was left and still continue to work at least part time. I could even take a vacation somewhere if I wanted to. Whatever is left will be saved.
The equivalent of $10,000 in 1958 is $79,000 in today's money. I would put $25,000 in the bank & leave it there to grow. I would do something nice for my family & myself with the rest of the money.
$10,000.00 in 1958 was worth $79,461.97 in today's time. If I had that money back then I would have saved it and found me and my family a better place to live. that money would have went towards bettering our living.
I Would Not Give my money to Walter, because the way he reacted when his mom said that he couldnt have the money he basically wanted to cry, leave, and go get drunk. So I would spend a little money on Bennie's schooling, but if I were to have a whole lot of money like the mother I would put some in an account, and keep my house together, maybe buy a few nice things . after all $79,000 dollars is a cool amount of money
T. Markey
I would have liked to have something that I own in my name, but I would have inveseted some properly also.
It is more worth it to own a house than to rent. If you rent your whole life, you’ll actually be paying more. After paying off a house, there are no more payments.
Destiney Wallace
Buisness Math
I dont think they spent the money well because she shouldnt have trusted her sons plan with the money and now majority of it is down the drain. Se shouldnt have told anyone thet the check was coming until it actually came.
In the book A Raisin in the Sun, there were many financial decisions that I believe were not appropriate for their financial situation. The Youngers did not organize their financial planning very well. The Youngers decided that they wanted to invest in a liquor store because they believed that they could get out of their financial rut that they were in. The better investment they made was to purchase a house. The purchase of their new house was important to them because they wanted to have their American Dream. If I would have been in their situation with $10,000 in 1958 I would try to invest in the stock market and I would definitely buy a house. The American Dream is very important because it gives people the satisfaction of owning something that they could grow old in.
F. Linares
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