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¨We were the carriers of our own history, the keepers of our own stories.¨ chpt 6

-Camari.O

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" I think of what it must mean to bring someone, a little girl perhaps, into all of this. And I know It's coming, someday. That it ain't even up to me. It's coming Hiram, and I will watch as my daughter is taken in, as I was taken in," (Coats 99) Yasmine Francisco

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" The wind gusted through, shivering me, so that my waterlogged brogans were like ice against my feet. I took a step forward, wheeled , fell, and down there in that grass I became aware of a powerful desire to sleep." (Coates 65)- Messiah W

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" I was nineteen, and a guarded nineteen who'd worked to feel nothing in this direction, so that when I did feel it, right there in that moment, when I did feel that I loved her, it was not with reason or ritual, not the way that makes families homes, but the way that wreaks them, I was undone" (Coats 103) Yasmine Francisco

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" I looked back up at my father and sa a kind of realization crawling over his face, and we were, in that moment, in a kind of secret communication that only exists between a parent and child." (Coates 68)- Messiah W

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"Me and Helen, we were friends. At least we was friends, once. I loved her, you know. I think I can say that --- I loved her, and when I think of Helen, I think only of the best times" (Coats 98) Yasmine Francisco

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"The quality, for instance, did not inquire o there inner workings of their "people they knew our names and they knew our parents. but they did not know us, because not knowing was essential to their power". (83)

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"It was here that my father had once kept secret and valuable things, a fact I knew because Maynard routinely rummaged through it and liked to detail his findings"(Coates 81)

Annie Froberg

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" Well, I do thank you," I said. "Wasn't nothing," said Amy. "He just did whatever any man would for one fixing to be family." "And we were to be as family," Said Corrine. "And I think we should still. Tragedy should not break us A man starts down a particular road. He remembers his steps, o matter what deluge may call upon the bridge."

(83)- Al'Lisa Ford

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"until I reached the far thest cabin, the one set off from the others, The one where Thena once stood with her broom, running off children, Where I had appeared all those years ago." (91)

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"But they did not know us, because not knowing was essential to their power. To sell a child right from under his mother, you must know that mother only in the thinnest way possible. To strip a man down, condemn him to be beaten, flayed alive, then anointed with salt water, you cannot feel him the way you feel your own" (Coates 83-84).

- Emily Mendoza

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"I was in the water and then falling into the light, guided by my dancing mother, until the light overwhelmed, and when it dimmed, and faded away, my mother was gone, and I felt the land under my feet." (65)- Messiah W

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"She moved with great force, and with her every upward heave, the rail heaved with her. I had no idea she was this strong." (Coates 122).

Sofia Z

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"The tree of our family was parted- branches here, roots there- parted for their lumber" (Coates)

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"'I will not be an old woman down in the coffin. I will bring no child to this. Ain't no society here. No rules'"(107).

-Sydney McNiel

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"But I had the most distinct memory of falling down in the fallows. I remembered seeing the monument there, the stone left to mark the first works of the progenitors, Archibald Walker." (72) -Myleah Sawyers

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The Water Dancer Thematic Idea  Tracker 

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The Water Dancer Thematic Idea  Tracker 

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Small Group:

Directions: Your group will need to find 3-4 quotes that support your assigned thematic idea. Each quote must be correctly cited (Coates 43). EACH person must include their initials for credit.

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You will review the Padlet and record a quote for 3 different Thematic Ideas. (This will be recorded on your digital tracker).