F2F Class Notes (Celeste)***

Write a diary entry about your adoption experiences.

Vocabulary

In the age of my grandparents, usually married people had a lot of children like 5 0r 6. – At the time of my grandparents / In my grandparents’ youth / In my grandparents’ generation…

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They were very too poor to raise me

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After I was born first month – The first month after I was born…

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It was a small town/village, everybody knew each other or everybody knows everybody

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foster care/mom/dad/parents – care or ppl who take care of a child before they are adopted

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give up – when sb is surrendered
eg. The poor, teenage mother gave up her baby because she knew her and her boyfriend could not take care of the baby.