Idioms of the week

To cry one's eyes out

To cut class

Lessons December 2024 Week 2

Lois Gibson holds the record for most criminals identified due to the drawings of one artist.

Her sketches helped police catch more than 1,300 criminals.

Lois was tortured and raped by a serial murderer and rapist and almost died when she was 21.

She wanted to help police catch criminals, so she took art courses.

She says that human artists are better than AI and computer programs.

After the very first sketch she created was shown on the news, the criminal was captured.

December 1 is Rosa Parks Day.

Rosa Parks was an American activist in the civil rights movement.

Rosa was sitting in the “black section” of a bus and was asked to move so a white person could sit there.

She wouldn’t move so she was arrested.

The Black community boycotted the Montgomery bus system for a year.

Her actions helped to make laws for anti-segregation.

“At the crack of dawn” means “when the sun rises.”

We left home at the crack of dawn.

“To crash” means “to sleep.”

I crashed at my friend’s house after the party.