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BENTON MIDDLE SCHOOL
Benton, Illinois (USA)
 
Johnson's 8th grade English/Language class
 
 
class statistics and demographics
 
Students:
n =  16

ages: 13-14

gender:
              females:  9
              males: 7

ethnicity:

              European-American (white): 16  (all)
              (two said their parents spoke English and Spanish at home)

Parents' jobs:
 
father:  

owns business & cleans houses 
surveyor 
policeman 
MDA 
Water Dept. employee 
supervisor at Macdonalds 
teacher 
math teacher 
manager at a welding shop 
lawyer - 2 
manager of company 
washes and remodels houses 
employee, IL Dept. of Natural Resources, inspects mines 
 

 mother:  

joint business owner with father & cleans houses 
school helper and nurse 
teacher  - 3 
secretary at a rental store 
secretary 
hair replacement 
doctor’s office 
asst. manager at Macdonalds 
employee in store 
dental hygienist 
banker 
“works at home” 
Franklin County Title Co. 
 
birthplace:
Benton - 6
Mt. Vernon - 2
Carbondale - 2

Pinckeneyville - 1
Centralia - 1
Du Quin - 1
West Frankfort - 1
Harrisburg (IL) - 1

Amarillo, TX - 1

length of life in Benton:
whole life - 11
12 yrs - 1
10 yrs. -  1
6 yrs.  - 2
2 yrs. - 1
family member born outside of Illinois?
yes -  8
no -  7
dubious reply - 1         (mom, brothers: "Springfield")

(sister: Georgia; cousin: Indiana; grandma: Kentucky; all: W. Virginia, N. Mexico, Texas; uncle & cousins: Kentucky; mother: W. Virginia)
 

family member born outisde US?
yes - 2
no - 14

(mother: Munich, Germany;  aunt: Bogotá, Colombia)

friends of different ethnic group?
yes -  4
no -  9
no answer -   3

“My x-sister-in-law is Korean, and I visit her about once or twice a year.”
“African-American” - 2
“the more popular people”
 

 language at home: 
English only - 14
English and Spanish - 2 (both respondents listed self as "white")
Visited Chicago?     yes- 10      no - 6

Visited small farm town in central Illinois?

yes -  4
no- 9
no answer -  3

Relative/friend in central Illinois?          yes - 4

(aunt and uncle - 1; uncle - 1; cousin - 1; friends - 1)

Visited other states?         yes - 16 (all)     no - 0
Florida - 10
Indiana -  9
Kentucky - 9
Missouri - 9
Tennessee -  7
Georgia - 7
Ohio - 5
Alabama - 5
Texas - 4
New Mexico - 3
Iowa - 3
N. Carolina - 3
NY - 3
Colorado - 3
Kansas - 3
California - 2
Washington - 2
Michigan - 2
Mississippi - 2
Louisiana - 2
S. Carolina - 2
Minnesota - 2
Pennsylvania - 2
W. Virginia - 2

Only one student:

Arkansas, Delaware , Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Oklahoma, Oregon, Rhode Island, South  Dakota. Virginia, Wyoming
Ambiguous: “all over the southeast part" [of ???]
 
Visited another country? 
yes - 4     (Canada - 2, Mexico - 2, Bahamas - 1)
no - 9
no answer - 3
Studied about other parts of Illinois?
yes - 13
no -  1
no answer -  2 

“some cities”
 

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Last updated: April 12, 1999
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