Nickel & Dimed APEnglish3 Summer Assingment
Summer Reading Project Nickel and Dimed Journal
Before: Prepare to read list
Title- I would believe " Nickel and Dimed" stands for the amount and or wage per hour one person receives at work. "Nickel and Dimed'', might mean a low salary or wage, considering the fact that is change. I could only infer that it will be a low amount of money.
Possible themes - I can infer that by reading the title, poverty would be one of many major themes of this book. Also by reading ''On (not) getting By in America could mean struggle and hardship.
Ask questions-
1. I wonder what struggles and obstacles are going to come through out the story?
2. Judging by the book cover, what kind of problems and hardships she is going to have as working as a waiter?
3. Taken from the summary behind the book cover, i wonder how people live on a salary of 6 and 7 dollars an hour.
Make predictions- Judging by the cover I can assume that she is going to be a waitress on a low minimum wage. Considering the fact that waitresses don't get paid by the hour, they get paid by tip. It looks like she is going to struggle paying bills and paying her house and or apartment with a salary like that.
During: Question & Comments for each chapter/section Chapter 1 ''Serving in Florida''
I wonder why in Pg 25, she described all the workers who worked with her at "Hearthside" they way they live, and their problems. Basically she described their background of their lifestyle in which they live on. I wonder why she described them.
What caused the male server from the morning shifts to do triple shifts in a row, all the way around the clock?
I think that she can find a better job than working in a ''Jerry's'' asides that she used to work at "Hearthside''.
This is similar to the immigrants that come into the United States for a better life, yet they find themselves working twice as hard for a minimum wage job just like her.
This is important because, they come here searching for
Before: Prepare to read list
Title- I would believe " Nickel and Dimed" stands for the amount and or wage per hour one person receives at work. "Nickel and Dimed'', might mean a low salary or wage, considering the fact that is change. I could only infer that it will be a low amount of money.
Possible themes - I can infer that by reading the title, poverty would be one of many major themes of this book. Also by reading ''On (not) getting By in America could mean struggle and hardship.
Ask questions-
1. I wonder what struggles and obstacles are going to come through out the story?
2. Judging by the book cover, what kind of problems and hardships she is going to have as working as a waiter?
3. Taken from the summary behind the book cover, i wonder how people live on a salary of 6 and 7 dollars an hour.
Make predictions- Judging by the cover I can assume that she is going to be a waitress on a low minimum wage. Considering the fact that waitresses don't get paid by the hour, they get paid by tip. It looks like she is going to struggle paying bills and paying her house and or apartment with a salary like that.
During: Question & Comments for each chapter/section Chapter 1 ''Serving in Florida''
I wonder why in Pg 25, she described all the workers who worked with her at "Hearthside" they way they live, and their problems. Basically she described their background of their lifestyle in which they live on. I wonder why she described them.
What caused the male server from the morning shifts to do triple shifts in a row, all the way around the clock?
I think that she can find a better job than working in a ''Jerry's'' asides that she used to work at "Hearthside''.
This is similar to the immigrants that come into the United States for a better life, yet they find themselves working twice as hard for a minimum wage job just like her.
This is important because, they come here searching for