Tell me Jade’s identities in: race, gender, class, age
Black, female, low income, young/high school age
100
What kind of art does Jade make primarily?
Collages
100
How does Jade feel at her school? Give an example from the book that shows this feeling.
Multiple answers possible.
100
What does Jade’s mom do for work?
She cleans homes.
200
List 5 categories of positionalities.
Possible answers: race, class, ethnicity, gender, nationality, ability, language spoken, body type, religion, opportunity, etc
200
How is Jade financially able to attend her private school?
She earned a scholarship.
200
We have read about multiple times when Jade hid a part of her identity from others. Give one example of when this happened in the book.
Multiple answers possible.
200
Where did Jade meet Sam?
On the bus
300
Choose the dominant/privileged identities in each category.
* Gender: Female vs Male
* Race: White vs Black
* Class: Low Income vs High Income
* Education: College Degree vs. High School Diploma
* Male
* White
* High Income
* College Degree
300
Who does Jade live with?
Her mother and her uncle, E.J.
300
How does Jade feel about her mentorship program, Woman to Woman? Give an example from the book that shows this feeling.
Multiple answers possible.
300
Name Jade’s two best friends in the book and give 1 similarity and 1 difference between each of them and Jade.
Lee Lee - black female from the same neighborhood; goes to default public high school
Sam - female from Jade's school; white
400
Sort the following positionalities into categories (race, gender, sexuality, etc)
* LGBTQ+
* Heterosexual
* Male
* High income
* Muslim
* Sexuality
* Sexuality
* Gender
* Class
*Religion
400
What language does Jade speak other than English?
Spanish
400
Why is Jade not content with her mentor Maxine? Explain why and give one example from the story that shows how she feels about her mentor.
Multiple answers possible.
400
Describe the role of Jade’s father in her life.
Divorced from her mother, living and in a relationship with a high-income white woman, unreliable, distant from Jade, etc
500
Give an example from the book of a time when intersectionality affected Jade’s life.
Multiple answers possible
500
Where does Jade want to study abroad?
Costa Rica
500
Why does Jade enjoy the art that she makes? How does it connect to how she feels about her various identities?
Pieces of her collages are similar to her pieces of identity - all shattered and brought back together into one piece of art/person
500
Who got Jade involved in the Woman to Woman mentorship program, and why did this person nominate Jade specifically?
Her counselor, because she considered Jade a "high-risk" individual