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Vocabulary
The Moustache/ Who we really are
Two Kinds
Skins
Nicole
100
What is an accusation?
Claim, Alleged, or Charge
100
What was Mike's mother's conflict?
She wanted him to cut off his moustache
100
What was the name of the protagonist?
Jing-Mei
100
Why did Mitchell thing so highly of Jimmy T?
He was a real Indian.
100
What is a personal narrative?
A real person that tells the story of an actual event.
200
What does ambitious mean?
to be determined
200
What external conflict that happened to Mike at the movies?
He was charged regular price instead of the student discount.
200
What does the mother want her daughter to become?
A Prodigy
200
What was Mitchell's racial profile based on his mother and father?
His father was Indian and his mother was Swedish.
200
What does Nicole label herself as in her family?
The Blacksheep
300
What does the word inevitable mean?
Certain to happen
300
Daily Double: What is a news feature? Explain the main character and why she was featured.
A human interest story. Tamisha was a foster child who was adopted at a young age. Had health issues at birth. Most people believe that fostercare kids are trouble makers but Tamisha showed how she is different.
300
What character did the mother want her daughter to be like ?
Shirley Temple
300
What do the students from Long Pond High School think about the whites?
They are rappers and gang bangers.
300
What does Nicole think about when she thinks of being black?
The kings and Queens and beauty.
400
What does Reproach mean?
To blame
400
What educational achievement did the foster care youth have over the general population of students?
Higher percentage of high school graduates
400
What made Mr. Chong a bad piano teacher?
He was deaf.
400
What were the reason that Jimmy T and Randolph had tension between them?
Family background issues and previously played on different teams.
400
Why is Nicole being discriminated?
Biracial
500
What does discordant mean?
Unpleasant
500
What was the name of the grandmothers illness? (from the "The moustache")
Arteriosclerosis
500
How was the conflict between the mother and the daughter settled?
She offers the daughter the piano.
500
Daily Double: What did Mitchell learn about Jimmy T at the end of the story? What was Jimmy T's race?
He was not a real Indian. He was Hungarian...
500
How does Nicole deal with discrimination?
She faces it head on or confronts the issue.