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1. WOD: _______________________________________ POS: ___________ Context: _______________________
MOD: "’Of course, you can be prodigy, too,’ my mother told me when I was nine. ‘You can be best anything.’”
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2. WOD: _______________________________________ POS: ___________ Context: _______________________
MOD: “So now when my mother presented her tests, I performed listlessly, my head propped on one arm. I
pretended to be bored. And I was. I got so bored that I started counting the bellows of the foghorns out on the
bay while my mother drilled me in other areas.”
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3. WOD: _______________________________________ POS: ___________ Context: _______________________
MOD: “She seemed entranced by the music, a frenzied little piano piece with a mesmerizing quality, which
alternated between quick, playful passages and teasing, lilting ones.”
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4. WOD: _______________________________________ POS: ___________ Context: _______________________
MOD: “But I was so determined not to try, not to be anybody different, that I learned to play only the most
ear-splitting preludes, the most discordant hymns.”
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5. WOD: _______________________________________ POS: ___________ Context: _______________________
MOD: “We had grown up together and shared all the closeness of two sisters, squabbling over crayons and dolls.
In other words, for the most part, we hated each other.”
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6. WOD: _______________________________________ POS: ___________ Context: _______________________
MOD: "’She bring home too many trophy,’ Auntie Lindo lamented that Sunday. ‘All day she play chess. All day I
have no time do nothing but dust off her winnings." She threw a scolding look at Waverly, who pretended not to
see her.”
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7. WOD: _______________________________________ POS: ___________ Context: _______________________
MOD: “I had assumed that my talent show fiasco meant that I would never have to play the piano again.”
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8. WOD: _______________________________________ POS: ___________ Context: _______________________
MOD: “’I'm not going to play anymore.’ I said nonchalantly. ‘Why should I? I'm not a genius.’"
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9. WOD: _______________________________________ POS: ___________ Context: _______________________
MOD:
“It was not the only disappointment my mother felt in me in the years that followed, I failed her
many times, each time asserting my will, my right to fall short of expectations.”
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For each box below, choose one journal prompt to address. Journals should be a minimum of 7 sentences
in length and must include the selected vocabulary word. Please darken your punctuation, highlight the
vocabulary word, and make sure sentences don’t start with a conjunction (so, and, or, but, because).
1. Have you ever desired to be a prodigy? What would you like to excel at? Explain.
2. Often times tasks that are performed at school are accomplished listlessly. Describe one such
task, really emphasizing how tedious and boring it is.
3. Jing-mei’s mother is mesmerized by the piano music she hears on the TV. Describe something
spellbinding that fascinates you every time you see it.
4. Jing-mei’s ear-splitting preludes and discordant hymns are an outward display of her inward
determination to not be anybody different than who she is. Describe a discordant time in your
life when you were pressured to be somebody different.
5. All siblings squabble from time to time. Describe a quarrel that you had with a family member.
Add dialogue to make it more interesting.
6. Auntie Lindo cunningly disguises her bragging about her daughter’s achievements through her
lamenting over having to clean Waverly’s trophies. Describe something that your do truly lament
over.
7. Jing-mei’s talent show performance was a complete fiasco. Tell about a performance that was a
total failure for you.
8. Jing-mei nonchalantly tells her mother that she will no longer be playing the piano. Have you
ever told your parents that you were quitting something they deemed important? Describe your
exchange.
9. Jing-mei asserts her own will and stands up to her mother, refusing to be anyone but herself.
Describe a time when you asserted your own will against your parents’ wishes.
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