Jerusha Tasks
Word List to get lost (Letter 1) a foundling (L2) wiry and tough (L2) to be homesick (L 2) bright (L 3) to improve (L 3) to make something up (L4) charitable (L4) to turn one’s back on somebody (L4) a campus (L5) to pepper somebody with letters (L5)
Answer the questions
1. What kind of institution was the John Grier Home in your opinion?
2. What was Jerusha’s impression of the college? Was she happy there?
3. Why did Judy feel “like a fire horse”, all of the time at college?
4. Why did Jerusha write about the ‘advantage/ of being a foundling? What was it in her opinion?
5. Where was Jerusha’s room, how was it furnished?
6. Who were Jerusha’s classmates?
7. Do you think the girls could become friends?
8. What mistake did Jerusha make in English Literature the first day?
9. What was the trouble with college in her opinion?
10. What subjects did Jerusha learn in her first year?
11. Why did Jerusha decide to change her name? Who had given it to her?
12. What did Judy tell Sallie about her parents and her previous life?
13. Why did Judy think she had a chance to make the Freshmen basketball team?
Develop these ideas from Jerusha’s letters
1. I never heard of anybody being asylum-sick, did you?
2. A foundling asylum isn’t a young ladies’ finishing school.
3. I am a foreigner in the world and I don’t understand the language
4. Whatever faults I may have, no one can ever accuse me of having been spoiled by my family.
5. The aim of the John Grier Home is to turn the ninety-seven orphans into ninety-seven twins.’
6. How can one be very respectful to a person who wished to be called John Smith?
Which of these statements would Jerusha disagree with?
1. It’s very strange to have help, sympathy and support from somebody one doesn’t know.
2. Sallie is the most entertaining person in the world.
3. It is very simple to write letters to someone you don’t know.
4. It is fun to shop and pay with a real 5-dollar bill and get some change when you’ve never had more than a nickel in
Answer the questions
1. What kind of institution was the John Grier Home in your opinion?
2. What was Jerusha’s impression of the college? Was she happy there?
3. Why did Judy feel “like a fire horse”, all of the time at college?
4. Why did Jerusha write about the ‘advantage/ of being a foundling? What was it in her opinion?
5. Where was Jerusha’s room, how was it furnished?
6. Who were Jerusha’s classmates?
7. Do you think the girls could become friends?
8. What mistake did Jerusha make in English Literature the first day?
9. What was the trouble with college in her opinion?
10. What subjects did Jerusha learn in her first year?
11. Why did Jerusha decide to change her name? Who had given it to her?
12. What did Judy tell Sallie about her parents and her previous life?
13. Why did Judy think she had a chance to make the Freshmen basketball team?
Develop these ideas from Jerusha’s letters
1. I never heard of anybody being asylum-sick, did you?
2. A foundling asylum isn’t a young ladies’ finishing school.
3. I am a foreigner in the world and I don’t understand the language
4. Whatever faults I may have, no one can ever accuse me of having been spoiled by my family.
5. The aim of the John Grier Home is to turn the ninety-seven orphans into ninety-seven twins.’
6. How can one be very respectful to a person who wished to be called John Smith?
Which of these statements would Jerusha disagree with?
1. It’s very strange to have help, sympathy and support from somebody one doesn’t know.
2. Sallie is the most entertaining person in the world.
3. It is very simple to write letters to someone you don’t know.
4. It is fun to shop and pay with a real 5-dollar bill and get some change when you’ve never had more than a nickel in