Fatso
Neat People vs. Sloppy People
The Middle-Class Black's Burden
Remembering My Childhood
Compare-and-Contrast Genre
100

Fried dough

What is an elephant ear?

100

Morally upright and people who have great plans for a better world.

Who are sloppy people?

100

A dream house, two cars, an above-average school, and a vacation for the kids at Disneyland.

What is the "American Dream"?

100

A place where animals are killed for their meat.

Where did Hugh go on his fifth grade field trip?

100

the related similarities and differences between two things

What are points of comparison?

200

Most people have told me that I have never experienced this.

What is discrimination?
200

She is a journalist who has written articles for the New York Times, Newsweek, and the Boston Globe.

Who is Suzanne Britt?

200

A collection of McClain's essays published in 1986.

What is A Foot in Each World?

200

The place north of South Carolina.

Where did Sedaris grow up?

200

the use of similar grammatical structures for elements of similar importance

What is parallelism?

300

"fatso", "lard bucket", "Bismark", "lazy", "undisciplined", etc.

Names that Peck has been called because she is overweight.

300

The only thing neat in a neat person's house.

What is a trash can?

300

"Forget where you came from"; "You sold out"; "You gave up the revolution."; You are an Oreo."

What did her black peers say to her?

300

A long-term employee of the US State Department.

What is Hugh's father's job title?

300

class or group + points of comparison + an evaluative statement

The components of a thesis statement for a compare-and-contrast essay?

400
"All you need is a little self-discipline.", I know a weight loss program that can help you.", "lose a few pounds", etc.

Hurtful advice that people have given to Peck over the years regarding her weight.

400

insensitive, wasteful, arrogant 

What are the character traits of neat people?

400

"Whites won't believe I remain culturally different; blacks won't believe I remain culturally the same." (McClain, 1986).

What is McClain's dilemma?

400

While most of my friends think I led an exotic childhood, it was actually filled with danger and uncertainty.

Who is Hugh?

400

The following sentence stem is used to show ______ between two things.

"Similarly, "A" and "B" are __________."

What is compare?

500

How does Peck feel about the discrimination she faces as an overweight woman?

Though Peck claims that she has never internalized any of the insults she has suffered and is not angry over the discrimination she has endured, she obviously has been hurt by these insults and felt unloved and unwanted because of her weight. 

500

Those people are lazy, uncaring, filthy, and irresponsible.

What are some stereotypes of sloppy people?

500

This quote is an example of what writing technique? "I am not comfortably middle class; I am uncomfortably middle class." 

What is parallelism?

500

Nairobi, Cairo, Beirut, Cypress, Turkey

What are the names of the places Hugh visited on vacations with his family?

500

The following sentence stem is used to show ______ between two things.

"Although "A", it differs from "B" in that . . .."

What is contrast?

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