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A Raisin In The Sun Reflection
This week in english we're learning about the book "A Raisin in the Sun" we are reading the book and we are answering the questions Mr.Washigton be giving us. The most important thing that i learned in english was that black people used to be treated bad by the white people and white people didnt like black people they would be mean and not respect them. The assignment i spent the most time on was answering the questionnns because i had to go back to the book and look fr the answer. I can tell i am learning in algebra becuase my grades are going up. Im having trouble in english because my grade is still low for me in that class. The most confused i was this week was when ms.reeve introduced the new topic we were doing to be learning about.

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