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Answer these questions

Answer these questions. Write down your reaction to this photo – whatever comes to your mind first. Answer these questions. Describe what you think of when you hear people mention the homeless. What specific, daily problems must a homeless family solve?

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Answer these questions

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  1. Answer these questions Write down your reaction to this photo – whatever comes to your mind first

  2. Answer these questions • Describe what you think of when you hear people mention the homeless. • What specific, daily problems must a homeless family solve? • Is there homelessness in our community? How do you know? • Have you ever done anything to help homeless people? Explain. • What programs are available to homeless people?

  3. How Much Do You (really) Know About Poverty? • Take the quiz • Here come the answers…

  4. How Much Do You (really) Know About Poverty? • need $18.44 per hour • more than double the federal minimum wage • two-bedroom apartment

  5. How Much Do You (really) Know About Poverty? • received about $9 per day to meet their hunger and nutrition needs

  6. How Much Do You (really) Know About Poverty? • A single parent of two preschool age children • living in Dallas • Needs annual wage of $45,782 • Needs an hourly wage of $22 • poverty line only $22,050 for a family of four.

  7. Who receives government benefits..

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  13. Could you survive in poverty? • Take the quiz • Add your score • Read the back • Middle class • Wealth • What do the questions reveal about each class?

  14. Reading Assignment #1 • Pages 3-41 • “A Woman on the Street”/”The Desert” • Answer study guide questions 1-19 • Study vocabulary Hoisted, fretted, antiseptic, edible, harebrained, addled, embankment, sashayed, creosote, pigeonholed

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