The Great Depression in Angela's Ashes

I think this article is good for reader to read this before reading the book. The article tell about the depression having a big impact on American and all over the world. Ireland was hit hard to bye the depression. The main part to the book it that franks family is struggling to stay alive and have food on the table. The great depression makes it hard for his dad to fine a job and his drinking problem did too. I think you should know what it was like back in the 1930's and its impact. Americans with Irish roots seeking protection in Ireland during the Depression. they felt that their Mother land would help them but in the end Ireland was just like American in the early 1930's
i feel this article does a good summary of the book and the depression.

Here is the Articlehttp://www.irish-society.org/Hedgemaster%20Archives/Mother_Ireland.htm
written by: John Walsh © Irish Cultural Society of the Garden City Area

I Picked this video to show what the children look like back in the 1930s during the Great Depression. This is was Frank and his siblings look like in the video. They did eat much because they didn't have any money. The eat beard and water with sugar all the time because it was cheap. This video help paint a picture in their mind of that they look like and going through

Here is the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgR2Buke5MQ&feature=related
Made By:Geowoman Channel put it up on youtube.i think she got the video From the Dorothea Lange Collection - photos of migrants in California during the Great Depression (1935-1945)

http://www.at.artslink.co.za/~gerry/print.htm List of Words made by Gerry Coughlan

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxKvi256IPc Video on how to speak the Irish language Jake0112 made this video

These word be usefull because in he book it speaks some irish english slang. I think its a good idea to watch and read the list of words because it will help you understand what theyre saying and its intersting to get a better background on the language they speak.

Povery in Angela's Ashes

Poverty is a major part in the book Angela's Ashes. The family is living in Ireland and their whole life depends on money and jobs to survive. Frank McCount describes the living conditions and economy throughout the book. This is a video shows the poverty and living conditions the family describes http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJhtNOkB07I. It was a documentary posted on Youtube by a man named David who says he supplies videos and documentaries specifically for school subjects.

I think this video would be helpful because it gives the potential reader a visual of the scene the characters describe as their living conditions and gives a background of the time period. I would want the reader to really remember what the flats and houses looked like and how the family describes their life in the cramped, unclean homes. I agree with the ideas in this video because it shows you around the average poverty class homes and shows a real example of the family that lives just like the family in the book.

There is also a written piece that is from a government website called "Information on the Irish State". This page was written by Diarmaid Ferriter and tells all about Ireland in the Twentieth century http://www.gov.ie/en/essays/twentieth.html. This tells a little more information than one would need for just reading the book. About the sixth paragraph is where it really starts to explain what happened in Ireland with the economy and the overcrowding.

I think this will be helpful to the reader because the family in Angela's Ashes struggle with getting a job and finding a place where they can all live comfortably. Getting the background information would help give more of a political and ecomonical base of what is happening in the book. The reader should think about how this would effect your life if you had to live in these conditions and also how would you survive. I agree with the article on how it explains how there was a high level of poverty and the overcrowded conditions of the cities. I think any information about poverty would help the reader understand the book a little better.

Yes i believe this book should be available for more people to read in Perspectives because it's a good book and is a mature memoir.

Who would the book appeal to?

I think the book appeals to teenager and older. The book is set in the depression time so you should know about the hard ship to get the books meaning and struggle.

What about it is appealing?

How the make it in their hard times is appealing to me.

What obstacles should student readers of this book be ready for?

The reading it a little difficult to read. there was a lot of words i had to look up because i didn't know the mean. The book is a little long. These might be some obstacles for the reader.

What would students need to know about in order to understand the book?

Maybe some background on the depression and the Catholic religion.

What issues does the book deal with that students might be interested in discussing?Is there any “mature” content in the book? If so, what kind of content? How would you deal with such content in class?

The can talk about poverty and how life was back in the depression. I Feel the whole book is mature because its about them surviving and losing family cause they are poor. We would be mature about the content in the class.

october 29th who would the book appeal to???

i think that the book should be available to other students in a perspectives class, but maybe only to juniors and seniors. this is because i think that the book is for maybe more of a mature audience, because of the setting and time period. the book is slow-buildng so you kind of have to have patience. although it is slow building i do think its appealing because of the time period and setting i like the true life, going through struggles books.

childrens death would be a obstacle that people should be ready for while reading this book. a little bit of the language of the book. not so much as swearing but the language of the book in general. the only real language in the book would be the words "shitty" and "arse" which means ass.

students would need to understand church language while reading this book but thats about it.

issues that students would be interested in disscussing would be the Depression and the Prohibitation

Blog Prompts

Should the book you’re reading be available for more people to read in Perspectives?

I think this book should be available to the other students in class because its a very intersting book and it tells a good story.

Who would the book appeal to?

I think the book would appeal to teenagers and up.

What about it is appealing?

The story of the book is appealing to me and the events that happen in the book are also.

What obstacles should student readers of this book be ready for?

The only conflict in reading the book is the bigger words and the books language is alittle hard to understand.

What would students need to know about in order to understand the book?

You dont really need to know anything, because as you go on in the book you can understand the language by yourself.

What issues does the book deal with that students might be interested in discussing?

The children constantly dieing and how the father is a drunk.

Is there any “mature” content in the book? If so, what kind of content? How would you deal with such content in class?

There isnt really any mature content in the book except for maybe the children dieing.

Blog Prompts

Yes, I think the book should be available to more people to read because it's a very detailed and discriptive memoir that has some tragic events that make it very interesting.

I think the book would appeal to young adults, adults, and mothers.

It is appealing because the book really keeps your attention by the details it gives and how it describes things. Also the events in the book are interesting and keeps you reading.

The obstacles of the book are the "Irish" language they use periodically, sometimes parts that don't keep you attention very well, and also the length. It seems to make some events longer than they should be written.

Students would need to know a little Irish language background (mostly slang terms), understand medical sickness terms such as pneumonia, and chuch background such as communion and confession.

The way the parents are, the relatives that are helping, and how the children act and think.

There is not any "mature" content in the book except alcoholism and children dying.

Overall it seems to be a book that anyone could read.