https://padlet.com/mulenjon000/hpml9voq2pqp By Michelle Obama en-us 2019-11-08 18:51:52 UTC 2026-01-25 05:45:03 UTC hello@padlet.com https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/09/Becoming_%28Michelle_Obama_book%29.jpg/220px-Becoming_%28Michelle_Obama_book%29.jpg mulenjon000 https://padlet.com/mulenjon000/hpml9voq2pqp/wish/430149928 Obama, Michelle/ Obama Michelle (NRT). Becoming. Random House Inc, 2018.]]> 2020-01-10 18:23:59 UTC https://padlet.com/mulenjon000/hpml9voq2pqp/wish/430149928 mulenjon000 https://padlet.com/mulenjon000/hpml9voq2pqp/wish/433527039 Michelle decided she wanted to play piano when she was 4.  She got in an argument with her great-aunt who was teaching her. "I was lawyerly and also veered toward dictatorial" (11). ]]> 2020-01-20 05:20:37 UTC https://padlet.com/mulenjon000/hpml9voq2pqp/wish/433527039 mulenjon000 https://padlet.com/mulenjon000/hpml9voq2pqp/wish/433532088 Michelle thought of a time in school where a little girl asked "How come you talk like a white girl?"(39). Michelle talked about how her parents taught her to speak correct English. She didn't want to talk this way around her cousin to make sure she didn't come off as "uppity" or better than others.]]> 2020-01-20 05:57:05 UTC https://padlet.com/mulenjon000/hpml9voq2pqp/wish/433532088 mulenjon000 https://padlet.com/mulenjon000/hpml9voq2pqp/wish/433532607 Michelle and her family visited some old family friends who moved to a white neighborhood. During the visit, they notice a big ugly scratch on the car. "Someone had scratched a line across the side of his beloved Buick" (29).]]> 2020-01-20 06:01:17 UTC https://padlet.com/mulenjon000/hpml9voq2pqp/wish/433532607 mulenjon000 https://padlet.com/mulenjon000/hpml9voq2pqp/wish/433533294 Michelle realized that her parents sacrificed so much for her and her brother. "We were their investment, me and Craig. Everything went into us" (60). Michelle didn't want to bother her parents with a trip to France. They found out and said that it wasn't to much money.]]> 2020-01-20 06:06:28 UTC https://padlet.com/mulenjon000/hpml9voq2pqp/wish/433533294 mulenjon000 https://padlet.com/mulenjon000/hpml9voq2pqp/wish/433533715 Michelle read a letter and discovers she was admitted into Princeton University. Her brother had already been a Princeton student. She went to the counselor where they said that she wasn't Princeton material. "I never did stop in on the college counselor to tell her she'd been wrong-that I was Princeton material after all" (67).]]> 2020-01-20 06:09:23 UTC https://padlet.com/mulenjon000/hpml9voq2pqp/wish/433533715 mulenjon000 https://padlet.com/mulenjon000/hpml9voq2pqp/wish/433535228 When Michelle was at Princeton she realized that most of the students were white males. This made her feel inferior as she was the complete opposite. " Princeton was extremely white and very male" (71).]]> 2020-01-20 06:19:43 UTC https://padlet.com/mulenjon000/hpml9voq2pqp/wish/433535228 mulenjon000 https://padlet.com/mulenjon000/hpml9voq2pqp/wish/433535936 Michelle majored in Sociology at Princeton. She took her LSAT's and she applied to the best law schools. She ended up going to Harvard Law School. Michelle ended up getting a job at Sidney & Austin's law firm in Chicago. She also bought her first car from her salary and paid off her student loans.]]> 2020-01-20 06:24:07 UTC https://padlet.com/mulenjon000/hpml9voq2pqp/wish/433535936 mulenjon000 https://padlet.com/mulenjon000/hpml9voq2pqp/wish/433536785 Michelle meets her future husband Barack Obama at her job when she becomes his mentor. They began to get to know each other. At first, Michelle didn't like Barack because of his smoking habits. They ended up dating after realizing they had a lot in common. "I might have been ignoring whatever was growing between us, but he wasn't" (103).]]> 2020-01-20 06:30:19 UTC https://padlet.com/mulenjon000/hpml9voq2pqp/wish/433536785 mulenjon000 https://padlet.com/mulenjon000/hpml9voq2pqp/wish/433539564 Michelle and Barack can't agree on marriage. Barack plays a trick on Michelle and ends up proposing to Michelle. Michelle's father is getting worse even though he said he was fine. Michelle visits her father at the hospital to say goodbye. "He was asking for forgiveness. He was saying good-bye" (142). That same night her father had a heart attack and passed away.]]> 2020-01-20 06:46:17 UTC https://padlet.com/mulenjon000/hpml9voq2pqp/wish/433539564 mulenjon000 https://padlet.com/mulenjon000/hpml9voq2pqp/wish/433540187 Barack and Michelle get married in 1992 at the Trinity United Church of Christ. They take a honeymoon to Northern California. Barack becomes part of a program that registers 110,000 voters. After Barack returns from a trip, Michelle wants to switch jobs to find something in nonprofit. "I took another risk and switched jobs again, this time saying goodbye to Valerie and Susan at city hall in order to finally explore the kind of nonprofit work that had always intrigued me" (173).]]> 2020-01-20 06:50:24 UTC https://padlet.com/mulenjon000/hpml9voq2pqp/wish/433540187 mulenjon000 https://padlet.com/mulenjon000/hpml9voq2pqp/wish/433541568 Barack is elected to the Senate in 1996. Michelle supported her husband. Michelle suffer a miscarriage. Eight weeks later after trying again, Michelle is pregnant and gives birth to her first child Malia. "We were thinking not about country but about family as Malia Ann Obama" (190). Sasha is born in 2001.]]> 2020-01-20 06:59:10 UTC https://padlet.com/mulenjon000/hpml9voq2pqp/wish/433541568 mulenjon000 https://padlet.com/mulenjon000/hpml9voq2pqp/wish/433542875 Barack runs for president. Michelle is unsure that he can win and convince white voters. Michelle talks about having their whole life on display to America. Michelle is afraid of being bullied by others. The news takes her words out of context. Michelle was hurt that she was being called an "angry black woman". She blamed Barack for doing this to her.]]> 2020-01-20 07:07:33 UTC https://padlet.com/mulenjon000/hpml9voq2pqp/wish/433542875 mulenjon000 https://padlet.com/mulenjon000/hpml9voq2pqp/wish/433543804 Michelle votes for Barack a few days before election night. Barack was ahead in the polls but Michelle was worried that he might lose based on the Bradley effect. She keeps thinking "Was America ready for a black president". The Obamas and Bidens watch the election as states come in. At ten o'clock, Barack became the 44th president of the United States .]]> 2020-01-20 07:12:57 UTC https://padlet.com/mulenjon000/hpml9voq2pqp/wish/433543804 mulenjon000 https://padlet.com/mulenjon000/hpml9voq2pqp/wish/433545777 Michelle thinks about being the first African American First Lady of the United States. She had to be smarter, faster and stronger to prove herself. She thinks about her aspirations as a young girl. There is no handbook for first lady so she asks former First Ladies of the United States for advice. Her mother moves into the White House with her. Michelle had to figure out her agenda for all four years.]]> 2020-01-20 07:22:29 UTC https://padlet.com/mulenjon000/hpml9voq2pqp/wish/433545777 mulenjon000 https://padlet.com/mulenjon000/hpml9voq2pqp/wish/433546937 Michelle is astonished with how beautiful the White House was. Michelle's life is vastly different in the White House then in Chicago. Barack gets to have dinner with her and the girls. Michelle thinks about looking at the House of Representatives and seeing so many white males.]]> 2020-01-20 07:27:32 UTC https://padlet.com/mulenjon000/hpml9voq2pqp/wish/433546937 mulenjon000 https://padlet.com/mulenjon000/hpml9voq2pqp/wish/433547619 Michelle feels confined in the White House. Anytime they would go outside of the White House, they would cause a scene. Michelle and Barack couldn't be spontaneous. They wanted their children to be treated normally ]]> 2020-01-20 07:30:23 UTC https://padlet.com/mulenjon000/hpml9voq2pqp/wish/433547619 mulenjon000 https://padlet.com/mulenjon000/hpml9voq2pqp/wish/433548204 Michelle started to do a health initiative to get kids and adults healthy. She wanted to leave the politics to her husband. She knew that some would be disappointed with her while others would love her message.]]> 2020-01-20 07:32:55 UTC https://padlet.com/mulenjon000/hpml9voq2pqp/wish/433548204 mulenjon000 https://padlet.com/mulenjon000/hpml9voq2pqp/wish/433548855 Michelle was aware that she had top security but her children and family were still vulnerable. After Donald Trump's accusations of Barack's allegiance to his country, a man shot at the White House. Michelle talks about being married to a President. Michelle kept working on her health campaign while her husband was trying to capture Osama Bin Laden]]> 2020-01-20 07:36:01 UTC https://padlet.com/mulenjon000/hpml9voq2pqp/wish/433548855 mulenjon000 https://padlet.com/mulenjon000/hpml9voq2pqp/wish/433550013 Republicans kept trying to stop Barack from making change. Michelle struggled to be First Lady and a mother. They did this so Obama would be a one-term president. Michelle was emotional. Michelle was anxious for the election and wondering if her children's lives would be flipped upside down. Barack ended up winning and Michelle was hopeful.]]> 2020-01-20 07:41:14 UTC https://padlet.com/mulenjon000/hpml9voq2pqp/wish/433550013 mulenjon000 https://padlet.com/mulenjon000/hpml9voq2pqp/wish/433550745 Michelle talks about Sasha  and Malia having friends in the second term. There were the last balls, trips, and speeches to do. Michelle was confused on how Donald Trump won after Barack said Florida looks strange. She was confused on why women picked a misogynist to run the country. They obviously supported Hillary for the presidency.]]> 2020-01-20 07:44:38 UTC https://padlet.com/mulenjon000/hpml9voq2pqp/wish/433550745