All the people and boarding the ship, it was all a brand
new experience. We left Rotterdam, we set sail and about
a half hour after the ship started my sister got very sea
sick. It took us fourteen days to cross the Atlantic and in
the entire crossing, she was in steerage, and the only time
she came up for a breath of fresh air was just about a half
hour before we saw the Statue of Liberty.
-"Morris Remembers the Steamship."
Ellis Island Oral History Project,
National Park Service: Ellis Island
What question might you ask to have a better
understanding of this passage?
Where does the speaker come from?
What was the name of the speaker's sister?
How did the speaker feel during the voyage?
What did they eat on the ship?

1.why was the journey important?

2. The speaker comes from Rotherham

3.Not mentioned in the passage

4 He felt empathy for his sister.

5. Not mentioned in the passage.

on my last

now, of course, the quality and the seasonability of these winter dreams varied, but the stuff of them remained.   they persuaded dexter several years later to pass up a business course at the state university—his father, prospering now, would have paid his way—for the precarious advantage of attending an older and more famous university in the east, where he was bothered by his scanty funds. but do not get the impression, because his winter dreams happened to be concerned at first with musings on the rich, that there was anything merely snobbish in the boy. he wanted not association with glittering things and glittering people—he wanted the glittering things themselves. often he reached out for the best without knowing why he wanted it—and sometimes he ran up against the mysterious denials and prohibitions in which life indulges.

there you go thats what we are missing