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1. Why was she so excited about going to the college?

2. Why was she so bothered to go to the PE class even though she hate it? Doesn't she have any plan on not dropping the class?

3. What if the dean gives her detention instead of letting her drop the compulsory course?

4. Why was she so interested in finding friends and willing to spend her earnings to do that?

5. What if she didn't smash the hurdles?

Group discussion

Why she rejected the lost boy?

- in the group discussion, Nani suggested she rejected the forced sympathy because she wants to have real friends instead plastic friends while Irdina stated she expected a good-looking guy rather than that poor boy. As for me, I also have the same answer to Irdina because starting from the beginning of the story, her expectations were high on almost everything that passed her thoughts.

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1) why the dean excuse her from the physical ecucation class easily?

The dean probably had a same experience like the author and he feel sympathy.

2)  Why did she accept her fate as being alone only after dance when there were alot of casualties along the way that could've made her assured herself sooner?

The dance probably is her breaking point because there is only so much that she can endure💯

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1) what does the author mean by "External time is all before you"
- compared to life in the city, you don't notice the time because of all the work and errands you have to attend. Meanwhile in small towns, you can see time pass by because your life is much less busy. The time is before you.
2) what does the author mean by "so these are the real Americans..."?
- the author says so because in the city, she lived in the jewish ghettos surrounded by the city where there are many working immigrants. So when she arrives in small towns and sees all the white americans, these to her are the real Americans

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Question 1:
1) why she rather choose to sit alone at the dance ball than go out and start conversation with people
2) in the article, why she is not happy ?
3) why she is treated like a stranger? Is  it her fault to be different?
4)why iz she questioned herself with "whats wrong with her" as if she is uncertain with her personality
5) did she regret on accepting the scholar offer after the treament from her classmates

Question2:
-why did she expect too much- bcoz she must heard from her relatives bout how amazing college life is or she saw the advertisment bout the college. With that, she had her high hopes on the college life
-Why do other students dont want to be friends with her- maybe she does not have the same accent as others and her apperance looks differents

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1) why she used newspapers to wrap her stuff? Didn't she has any bags/briefcase? Was she that poor?
2)Why was the new place different from New York/where she lived before?
3)why the girl she met in the first class glanced at her that way?
4) Is it me, or she lacked social skill?
5) why did she destroy the hurdle? Wouldn't that damage her reputation among her classmates? I mean, who would befriend a violent girl?

1) why she expected too much from college life?
For that time, maybe going to college is a big thing as not many people manage to enter college. It was a general assumption that going to college was a life changing phase for some people.

2) Why the other students didn't want to make friends with her?
Maybe because she looked poor, reflected by her clothes.
Maybe other students didn't like immigrants, she may had different accent, so they knew she was an immigrant
Maybe she lacked social skills. She was an immigrant, and lived in the ghetto, so maybe she never had any experience making friends with local peers.

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1) after all of the efforts to go to the dance, why did she declined the young man's offer for a dance?
2) why did she finally gave up in trying making friends after the dance when she could gave up after all the cold ttreatment she received from the first day of her class?
3) why the teacher also gave her a cold treatment like the other student?
4) what encourage the author to have this intention to change herself inside and out?
5) why did they doubt her entering into the college

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1. Why did she seem so surprised to see how her peers spend their time as compared to where she initially came from? 2. Why does she go through all of these struggles and sacrifices just to start a new? 3. Despite finding it extremely difficult to be noticed or acknowledged, why does she feels optimistic in socializing? 4. Why was she against the fact that she had to go for PE classes especially in a higher level education setting. 5. Why did she finally feel that being alone is the eventual outcome of her journey starting out in college. 2) "External time is all before you" This statement portrays that you have all the time in the world to either take moments to notice or to go about your life having time whizz past. 2.1) Why does she have the expectation that people can easily open up to her? With her past understanding, she thinks that people especially Americans, are the type of welcoming people but in reality it is not the case especially towards immigrants

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1) referring to first paragraph, why does she feel this way?
2)why did she didn't want anyone to see the way she ate ? (Paragraph3)
3)referring to the line "and they didn't even know i was there", did she feel left out?
4) from the line "External time is all before you." What does this mean?
5) from the line "So these are the real Americans...",
Why does the author says so ?

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1) - Why did she expect too much about the college?
- Why did she even bother to go to the dance?
- When she went to the dance, why dont she herself try to make friends rather than just sit there and wait?
- Why did she declined the guy's offer for the dance after all the efforts that she did to go there?
- Will she be accepted if she is not an immigrant?
2) > Why did she expect too much? - Might be she heard stories about how college is and how the life is when you're in college. She saw the advertisement about the college.
> Why do the other students dont want to be friends with her? -She does not have the same accent as the others and her appearance looks different.

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a)1) Why do the society so bothered about the beauty and fashion when they only came from a small town?

2) Meanwhile, in New York, why do they not even care what do you want to where?

3) Why is the author expectations too high? Why don't she do a research about the life in Columbia before going there?

4) How do she make it to a higher education and get a scholarship when she only came from a ghetto and she is an immigrant?

5) Does she ever expect to live alone in the college before going there?

b)1) What does it mean when the author said " External time is all before you"? - So it means by you never realise the time is passing by when she is in a city life while in a small town the time passes slower and you can feel it every second.

2) If she had accepted the dance, do you think she will get at least one friend to be friend with? - i don't think so, because based on her experience in the past she knows that she will never get a sincere friend from the college. Next, she know that the guy who asked her to dance was being forced by a chaperone and the guy shows that how unwilling he is.

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1) (a) Why is she so amazed about people celebrating birthdays and having feasts?

(b) What experiences can you infer that the author had gone through to be able to view America in such wonder?

(c) Why do you need validation from people in order to go on with your life?

(d) Why is it that fancy clothings determine how much of a person you are? Is it a newfound measurement of people's personality?

(e) Why are the people around her never seem to bother her obvious rags of poverty and isolation?

2) (a) Why is she comparing her past life in Poland with her current life in America?

Like all immigrants, they fled their country, bringing along their identity. Coming from a war-torn country on the edge of being the centre of a world war, she did not have any exposure about America. She had no idea what freedom-run America has to offer. Even the luxuries about getting food out in the open amazes her. As the Americans walk their day in blend routines, she was filled with wonder in every luxury she saw.

(b) Why did she rejected the boy's offer to dance?

Since the boy was obviously forced into offering her to dance, she rejected the forced sympathy. It was the last straw for her effort of fitting in. She decided to move away of wanting their "little happiness" of social acceptance, and chose to go on alone even if she was different.

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Five of my questions:-
1) Why does the author think so highly of the students in her college?
2) From the treatment of her classmates, why does the author still try her best to fit in?
3) Rather than just sitting at the back, she could at least try to mix around at the party and gain some friends?
4) If she had accepted the dance, do you think she could get at least one friend to befriend with?
5) The p.e class was compulsory but why did the dean give the author excuse, just for her and not for the other students?

Two questions with group:-
1) "External time is all before you" what does this statement means?
The meaning of statement is, the author implies, that time passes by when you're in a busy city and with all people working but in the small town time passes much more slowly because people are less busy
2) The author said "So these are the real Americans" why does the author say this when she's not even American and how does she really know how Americans really are? As the author is not American and might not have have been to America before, she might think her first environment is what she thought how Americans are.

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1) Why she expected too much on her colleges?
2) Why she refused the boy that invite her to dance?
3) Why she choose to work at the laundry?
4) Why she choose to seat next to a sad young man as she entered the classroom?
5) Why she really wants to go to the dance eventhough that she cant afford the right clothes for the dance?
A) Why she expected too much for her life at the college before she leaves New York?
-she might be heard the story about how fun and enjoy to be in college from her friends or family members
-she might see a lot of of advetisements at newspaper or television about how fun life at college

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BB1) had she not been exposed about the treatment she might received in an unknown society( society which deprived of variety)
2) Does beauty or status defines one self-worth
3) will she be more accepted if she had not smashed the hurdle and caused a scene in the gymnasium.
4) Is the dean a minority himself, since he understands the author's situation or simply because he was being compassionate.
5)why does she stand back in social events? Were she expecting others to approach her?

Question 2
1) why did she rejected the guy's offer? My opinion that she most probably expect someone better looking, someone who belong in the society, not someone like her. Other group members gave a different prespective and think that she did that because she hates forced symphathy by others.

2)  why did she compare her new life with her past life? Like all immigrant she was  bringing her identity along with her.

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1. a) Why she choose to work at the laundry store?
b) Why is she trying so hard to adapt?
c) Will I be starving like her when I study overseas?
d) Why does she think that wearing slippers would be appropriate for the dance?
e) Why did she waste her eating money just for a dance?

2.Why is she comparing her old hometown with her new place?
- This is because she is bringing her identity along to the new place. (Group's answer)
- I was impressed with the question because my group members gave a different answer. My thought at first was it was quite ridiculous of her to compare her old hometown which is a ghetto area to a modern university campus. It was quite obvious that these two places would be dif

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1) Was she happy after accepting her fate as being alone?
2) Was her life in college as hard as her life in the ghetto?
3) She spent her life working and getting a job? Did she have friends along the way? Was this the reason why it was hard for her to make friends?
4) With her busy life before this? Was this the reason why she is socially awkward?
5) In the article, she spent her time wondering if she could attain friendship and love, was this the reason why she entered college on the first place?

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1. List down your Socratic questioning (at least 5)

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1. List down your Socratic questioning (at least 5)

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2. Share one or two Socratic questionings that you have discussed with your group members (you never think about those questions and you are impressed with them/ or you have common questions but the interpretations/answers are different)