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Embarrassing Moments of the Gleasons
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Seeing something for a quick moment

glimpse (d)

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Who is the main character's best friend

Meg

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What food did the Lin's struggle to eat at the Gleason's at the beginning of the story

celery

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Where did the Lin family immigrate from?
China
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In the Lin family, who spoke English faster and why?
The brother because he spent all of his time with some boys who were teaching him baseball, and in no time he could speak English much faster.
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The kind of food people eat/clothing they wear/traditions they celebrate are all part of : 

Culture

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Acceptable manners or behavior

Etiquette

DOUBLE JEOPARDY

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What did Mr. Gleason do that was embarrassing at the dinner party at the Lin's house?
He was trying to pick up a pea with his chopsticks and couldn't. Therefore, he used his fingers, picked it up, and ate it!
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Who invited the Lin family to dinner for the first time in America?

The Gleasons

DOUBLE JEOPARDY

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Why did the Lin family decide to go to a fancy dinner at the Lakeview restaurant?
They were celebrating father's promotion.
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Drinking something loudly

slurp (ing)

DOUBLE JEOPARDY

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What did father have at the Lakeview restaurant? (two things)
French dictionary and a pocket flashlight
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What embarrassing thing did Meg do at the Lin's dinner party? (2 part answer)

She had her food piled high on her plate! She had been taking food from a second dish before she finished eating food from her first dish.

DOUBLE JEOPARDY

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What is the first embarrassing thing the Lin family did at the Gleason's house?
Pulled strings out of the celery
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What did the Lin family do at the Lakeview restaurant that made the little Lin girl go to the restroom in embarrassment?
They slurped their soup loudly
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Synonym for having good manners

etiquette

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Vocab word for talking with different groups of people at a social gathering

mingle 

DOUBLE JEOPARDY

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What embarrassing thing did Mrs. Gleason do at the dinner party at the Lin's house?
She dumped her rice out of the bowl onto her plate and poured gravy over it.
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What is the second embarrassing thing the Lin family did while at dinner at the Gleason's house?
The Lin family pulled chairs up to the buffet.
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At the Lin families first PTA meeting, they got to meet the little Lin girl's teacher. The teacher beamed as she told them how great the little girl was doing in school. Chinese etiquette forced her parents to respond to the teacher by saying _____________________________________.

Father - She is a very stupid girl Mother - Protested the teacher was showing favoritism toward the girl.

DOUBLE JEOPARDY

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A word for someone who is well dressed and has excellent manners

polished

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Someone who is a good host and is polite to their guests has good: 

hospitality

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What caused the main character to go hide in the bathroom at the fancy restaurant

the slurping sound her family was making

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Why did the little Lin girl want to ride the neighbors bike to the big supermarket? (Tell me what she wanted and why)
She wanted to show her mother how much she needed (wanted) jeans. She made sure her mother knew she would be willing to help out more and run errands if she had on jeans.
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What is one of the themes in your story?
No matter how great the cultural differences are between us, there are similarities as well.