This experience of a whole race beginning to go to school for the first time, presents one of the most interesting studies that has ever occurred in connection with the development of any race. Few people who were not right in the midst of the scenes can form any exact idea of the intense desire which the people of my race showed for an education. As I have stated, it was a whole race trying to go to school. Few were too young, and none too old, to make the attempt to learn.

Practice and Study the spelling list all the week. ♥ Write the meaning for each word.

Revision of vocabulary related to the house.

'I swept the recitation-room three times. Then I got a dusting-cloth and dusted it four times. All the woodwork around the walls, every bench, table, and desk, I went over four times with my dusting-cloth. .....I reported to the head teacher. She was a "Yankee" woman who knew just where to look for dirt. ... When she was unable to find one bit of dirt on the floor, or a particle of dust on any of the furniture, she ... remarked, "I guess you will do to enter this institution." -B. T. Washington

Vocabulary words

Before going there I ...[thought] to secure an education meant to have a good, easy time, free from all necessity for manual labour. At Hampton I ... learned that it was not a disgrace to labour, but learned to love labour, ...for labour's own sake. ...I got my first taste of what it meant to live a life of unselfishness, my first knowledge of the fact that the happiest individuals are those who do the most to make others useful and happy.

Practice vocabulary for common activities in Spanish

At Hampton it was a standing rule that, while the institution would be responsible for securing some one to pay the tuition for the students, the men and women themselves must provide for their own board, books, clothing, and room wholly by work, or partly by work and partly in cash. ... At Hampton the student was constantly making the effort through the industries to help himself, and that very effort was of immense value in character-building.

I ... wondered if there was a white institution in this country whose students would have welcomed the incoming of more than a hundred companions of another race in the ... way that these black students at Hampton welcomed the red ones. How often I have wanted to say to white students that they lift themselves up in proportion as they help to lift others, and the more unfortunate the race, and the lower in the scale of civilization, the more does one raise one's self by giving the assistance.

IN THIS GAME YOU WILL GUESS SOME ADJECTIVES THAT DESCRIBE PERSONALITY.