Simple Recipes Online Group Work - Section 6 by Christine Rikkers https://padlet.com/chrissyrikkers/Section6 en-us 2021-01-25 18:48:00 UTC 2023-05-16 15:12:03 UTC hello@padlet.com Theme: Family conflict https://padlet.com/chrissyrikkers/Section6/wish/2012105751 2022-01-25 19:50:06 UTC https://padlet.com/chrissyrikkers/Section6/wish/2012105751 https://padlet.com/chrissyrikkers/Section6/wish/2012105794 2022-01-25 19:50:07 UTC https://padlet.com/chrissyrikkers/Section6/wish/2012105794 Quote 2166030 https://padlet.com/chrissyrikkers/Section6/wish/2012106070 My father nodded. "That is like me. Let me see your forehead." We stopped and faced each other in the road. "You have a high forehead," he said, leaning down to take a closer look. "All smart people do." (Leila, Benjamin, Daniel & Nethan)]]> 2022-01-25 19:50:16 UTC https://padlet.com/chrissyrikkers/Section6/wish/2012106070 I walked proudly, stretching my legs to match his steps. I was overjoyed when my feet kept time with his, right, then left, then right, and we walked like a single unit. (Amanda, James, Peter) https://padlet.com/chrissyrikkers/Section6/wish/2012106182 2022-01-25 19:50:20 UTC https://padlet.com/chrissyrikkers/Section6/wish/2012106182 https://padlet.com/chrissyrikkers/Section6/wish/2012106492 2022-01-25 19:50:30 UTC https://padlet.com/chrissyrikkers/Section6/wish/2012106492 https://padlet.com/chrissyrikkers/Section6/wish/2012107092 2022-01-25 19:50:48 UTC https://padlet.com/chrissyrikkers/Section6/wish/2012107092 https://padlet.com/chrissyrikkers/Section6/wish/2012107515 2022-01-25 19:51:02 UTC https://padlet.com/chrissyrikkers/Section6/wish/2012107515 "My father bought me a rice cooker when I first moved into my own apartment,.." https://padlet.com/chrissyrikkers/Section6/wish/2012108054 2022-01-25 19:51:14 UTC https://padlet.com/chrissyrikkers/Section6/wish/2012108054 https://padlet.com/chrissyrikkers/Section6/wish/2012108608 2022-01-25 19:51:33 UTC https://padlet.com/chrissyrikkers/Section6/wish/2012108608 https://padlet.com/chrissyrikkers/Section6/wish/2012109306 2022-01-25 19:51:53 UTC https://padlet.com/chrissyrikkers/Section6/wish/2012109306 2166030 https://padlet.com/chrissyrikkers/Section6/wish/2012109460 2022-01-25 19:51:57 UTC https://padlet.com/chrissyrikkers/Section6/wish/2012109460 https://padlet.com/chrissyrikkers/Section6/wish/2012110123 2022-01-25 19:52:17 UTC https://padlet.com/chrissyrikkers/Section6/wish/2012110123 dirt https://padlet.com/chrissyrikkers/Section6/wish/2012110150 2022-01-25 19:52:18 UTC https://padlet.com/chrissyrikkers/Section6/wish/2012110150 Theme: Loss of culture (Charlotte, Cornelius, Oceanne, Josie) https://padlet.com/chrissyrikkers/Section6/wish/2012110541 2022-01-25 19:52:33 UTC https://padlet.com/chrissyrikkers/Section6/wish/2012110541 https://padlet.com/chrissyrikkers/Section6/wish/2012110559 2022-01-25 19:52:34 UTC https://padlet.com/chrissyrikkers/Section6/wish/2012110559 "My father was the man of tricks, who sat for an hour mining a watermelon with a circular spoon, who carved the rind into a castle." https://padlet.com/chrissyrikkers/Section6/wish/2012110914 Meagan, Alex, Angus, Orly ]]> 2022-01-25 19:52:44 UTC https://padlet.com/chrissyrikkers/Section6/wish/2012110914 Search for perfection https://padlet.com/chrissyrikkers/Section6/wish/2012111752 2022-01-25 19:52:57 UTC https://padlet.com/chrissyrikkers/Section6/wish/2012111752 https://padlet.com/chrissyrikkers/Section6/wish/2012112189 “ I have no longing for the meals themselves, but I miss the way we sat down together, our bodies leaning hungrily forward while my father, the magician, unveiled plate after plate.”


]]> 2022-01-25 19:53:11 UTC https://padlet.com/chrissyrikkers/Section6/wish/2012112189 The Fish https://padlet.com/chrissyrikkers/Section6/wish/2012112761 (Amanda, James, and Peter)]]> 2022-01-25 19:53:31 UTC https://padlet.com/chrissyrikkers/Section6/wish/2012112761 https://padlet.com/chrissyrikkers/Section6/wish/2012112877 2022-01-25 19:53:35 UTC https://padlet.com/chrissyrikkers/Section6/wish/2012112877 https://padlet.com/chrissyrikkers/Section6/wish/2012113077 2022-01-25 19:53:42 UTC https://padlet.com/chrissyrikkers/Section6/wish/2012113077 "...my father and I sat on the couch, flipping channels. He loved cooking shows." https://padlet.com/chrissyrikkers/Section6/wish/2012113510 2022-01-25 19:53:56 UTC https://padlet.com/chrissyrikkers/Section6/wish/2012113510 https://padlet.com/chrissyrikkers/Section6/wish/2012114032 2022-01-25 19:54:09 UTC https://padlet.com/chrissyrikkers/Section6/wish/2012114032 "I used to sit up on the kitchen counter watching him, how he sifted the grains in his hands, sure and quick, removing pieces of dirt or sand, tiny imperfections. He swirled his hands through the water and it turned cloudy. When he scrubbed the grains clean, the sound was as big as a field of insects. Over and over, my father rinsed the rice, drained the water, then filled the pot again." https://padlet.com/chrissyrikkers/Section6/wish/2012114706 (Amanda, James and Peter)]]> 2022-01-25 19:54:31 UTC https://padlet.com/chrissyrikkers/Section6/wish/2012114706 Guilt https://padlet.com/chrissyrikkers/Section6/wish/2012114770 (MAxim, Promothon, Fara, Aldrich)]]> 2022-01-25 19:54:33 UTC https://padlet.com/chrissyrikkers/Section6/wish/2012114770 "My father ran his thumb gently over my mouth, his face kind, as if trying to see what it was that made me different." https://padlet.com/chrissyrikkers/Section6/wish/2012115246 Meagan, Alex, Angus, Orly ]]> 2022-01-25 19:54:46 UTC https://padlet.com/chrissyrikkers/Section6/wish/2012115246 identity https://padlet.com/chrissyrikkers/Section6/wish/2012115304 2022-01-25 19:54:48 UTC https://padlet.com/chrissyrikkers/Section6/wish/2012115304 https://padlet.com/chrissyrikkers/Section6/wish/2012115337 "My father did not need instructions or measuring cups. He closed his eyes and felt for the waterline. "
(Maxim,Promothon,Fara,Aldrich)]]> 2022-01-25 19:54:49 UTC https://padlet.com/chrissyrikkers/Section6/wish/2012115337 "You don't have to be a genius to do that." lisiemma01 https://padlet.com/chrissyrikkers/Section6/wish/2012115429 2022-01-25 19:54:52 UTC https://padlet.com/chrissyrikkers/Section6/wish/2012115429 https://padlet.com/chrissyrikkers/Section6/wish/2012115652 "In my father's face, I have seen everything pass. Anger that has stripped it of anything recognizable, so that it is only a face of bones and skin. And then, at other times, so much pain that it is unbearable, his face so full of grief it might dissolve."]]> 2022-01-25 19:54:59 UTC https://padlet.com/chrissyrikkers/Section6/wish/2012115652 "Then he would rise, whistling, and clear the table, every motion so clean and sure, I would be convinced by him that all was well in the world." https://padlet.com/chrissyrikkers/Section6/wish/2012116720 2022-01-25 19:55:29 UTC https://padlet.com/chrissyrikkers/Section6/wish/2012116720 Finding and removing "impurities" https://padlet.com/chrissyrikkers/Section6/wish/2012117232 2022-01-25 19:55:46 UTC https://padlet.com/chrissyrikkers/Section6/wish/2012117232 Immigration https://padlet.com/chrissyrikkers/Section6/wish/2012117528 2022-01-25 19:55:56 UTC https://padlet.com/chrissyrikkers/Section6/wish/2012117528 "I worried that I could not do so simple a task right. "Sorry," I would say to the table, my voice soft and embarrassed. In answer, my father would keep eating, pushing the rice into his mouth as if he never expected anything different, as if he noticed no difference between what he did so well and I so poorly. He would eat every last mouthful, his chopsticks walking quickly across the plate." https://padlet.com/chrissyrikkers/Section6/wish/2012117655 2022-01-25 19:55:59 UTC https://padlet.com/chrissyrikkers/Section6/wish/2012117655 "He wears old buttoned shirts and faded sweatpants drawn at the waist." (Cornelius, Charlotte, Oceane, Josie) https://padlet.com/chrissyrikkers/Section6/wish/2012117892 2022-01-25 19:56:07 UTC https://padlet.com/chrissyrikkers/Section6/wish/2012117892 https://padlet.com/chrissyrikkers/Section6/wish/2012117960 2022-01-25 19:56:09 UTC https://padlet.com/chrissyrikkers/Section6/wish/2012117960 “Sometimes I dream my father, his bare feet flat against the floor, standing in the middle of the kitchen. He wears old buttoned shirts and faded sweatpants drawn at the waist.” lisiemma01 https://padlet.com/chrissyrikkers/Section6/wish/2012119552 2022-01-25 19:57:01 UTC https://padlet.com/chrissyrikkers/Section6/wish/2012119552 Immigration and culture https://padlet.com/chrissyrikkers/Section6/wish/2012119609 2022-01-25 19:57:03 UTC https://padlet.com/chrissyrikkers/Section6/wish/2012119609 Loss of identity https://padlet.com/chrissyrikkers/Section6/wish/2012120140 2022-01-25 19:57:19 UTC https://padlet.com/chrissyrikkers/Section6/wish/2012120140 https://padlet.com/chrissyrikkers/Section6/wish/2012120205 "I have no longing for the meals themselves, but I miss the way we sat down together , our bodies leaning hungrily forward while my father,te magician, unveiled plate." 
( Fara,Maxim,Aldrich,Promothon)]]> 2022-01-25 19:57:21 UTC https://padlet.com/chrissyrikkers/Section6/wish/2012120205 Struggles with cultural assimilation https://padlet.com/chrissyrikkers/Section6/wish/2012121593 (Josie , Oceane , Cornelius , Charlotte)]]> 2022-01-25 19:58:09 UTC https://padlet.com/chrissyrikkers/Section6/wish/2012121593 "We watched Wok with Yan, my father passing judgement on Yan's methods. I was enthralled when Yan transformed orange peels into swans. My father sniffed. "I can do that," he said. "You don't have tobe a genius to do that." He placed a sprig of green onion in water and showed me how it bloomed like a flower. "I know many tricks like this," he said. "Much more than Yan."Still, my father made careful notes when Yan demonstrated Peking Duck." (Lia, Johann, Arsh, Gabriella) https://padlet.com/chrissyrikkers/Section6/wish/2012121744 2022-01-25 19:58:15 UTC https://padlet.com/chrissyrikkers/Section6/wish/2012121744 "I walked proudly, stretching my legs to match his steps. I was overjoyed when my feet kept time with his, right, then left, then right, and we walked like a single unit. My father was the man of tricks, who sat for an hour mining a watermelon with a circular spoon, who carved the rind into a castle." https://padlet.com/chrissyrikkers/Section6/wish/2012122067 (Maxim, Promothon, Fara, Aldrich) ]]> 2022-01-25 19:58:26 UTC https://padlet.com/chrissyrikkers/Section6/wish/2012122067 Dying fish symbolizes a negative event will happen in the future (Cornelius, Charlotte, Oceane, Josie) https://padlet.com/chrissyrikkers/Section6/wish/2012123736 2022-01-25 19:59:23 UTC https://padlet.com/chrissyrikkers/Section6/wish/2012123736 https://padlet.com/chrissyrikkers/Section6/wish/2012124011 2022-01-25 19:59:33 UTC https://padlet.com/chrissyrikkers/Section6/wish/2012124011 Fish https://padlet.com/chrissyrikkers/Section6/wish/2012124383 2022-01-25 19:59:47 UTC https://padlet.com/chrissyrikkers/Section6/wish/2012124383 https://padlet.com/chrissyrikkers/Section6/wish/2012125710 My father pushes at the fish with the edge of his spoon. Underneath, the meat is white and the juice runs down along the side. He lifts a piece and lowers it carefully onto my plate

My father sighs and places the piece on my mother's plate.
(Calvin Matthew Kenza)

]]> 2022-01-25 20:00:30 UTC https://padlet.com/chrissyrikkers/Section6/wish/2012125710 '"How can a child forget a language?" he would ask my mother. "It is because the child is lazy. Because the child chooses not to remember."' https://padlet.com/chrissyrikkers/Section6/wish/2012127305 (Maxim, Promothon, Fara, Aldrich) ]]> 2022-01-25 20:01:19 UTC https://padlet.com/chrissyrikkers/Section6/wish/2012127305 https://padlet.com/chrissyrikkers/Section6/wish/2012128009 2022-01-25 20:01:41 UTC https://padlet.com/chrissyrikkers/Section6/wish/2012128009 https://padlet.com/chrissyrikkers/Section6/wish/2012128164 "my father would keep eating, pushing the rice into his mouth as if he never expected anything different, as if he noticed no difference between what he did so well and I so poorly"

(Leila, Daniel, Benjamin, Nethan)]]> 2022-01-25 20:01:46 UTC https://padlet.com/chrissyrikkers/Section6/wish/2012128164 https://padlet.com/chrissyrikkers/Section6/wish/2012129530 2022-01-25 20:02:26 UTC https://padlet.com/chrissyrikkers/Section6/wish/2012129530 While my father moves his arms delicately over the stove, I begin dishing the rice out: first for my father, then my mother, then my brother, then myself. https://padlet.com/chrissyrikkers/Section6/wish/2012129852 2022-01-25 20:02:36 UTC https://padlet.com/chrissyrikkers/Section6/wish/2012129852 https://padlet.com/chrissyrikkers/Section6/wish/2012130652 2022-01-25 20:03:06 UTC https://padlet.com/chrissyrikkers/Section6/wish/2012130652 https://padlet.com/chrissyrikkers/Section6/wish/2012131268 Calvin Matthew Kenza ]]> 2022-01-25 20:03:25 UTC https://padlet.com/chrissyrikkers/Section6/wish/2012131268 https://padlet.com/chrissyrikkers/Section6/wish/2012132206 2022-01-25 20:03:57 UTC https://padlet.com/chrissyrikkers/Section6/wish/2012132206 My father nodded. "That is like me. Let me see your forehead." We stopped and faced each other in the road. "You have a high forehead," he said, leaning down to take a closer look. "All smart people do." https://padlet.com/chrissyrikkers/Section6/wish/2012132643 2022-01-25 20:04:13 UTC https://padlet.com/chrissyrikkers/Section6/wish/2012132643 https://padlet.com/chrissyrikkers/Section6/wish/2012133838 2022-01-25 20:04:53 UTC https://padlet.com/chrissyrikkers/Section6/wish/2012133838 "I can do that", he said. "You don't have to be a genius to do that" (Maxim, Promothon, Aldrich, Fara) https://padlet.com/chrissyrikkers/Section6/wish/2012134952 2022-01-25 20:05:33 UTC https://padlet.com/chrissyrikkers/Section6/wish/2012134952 Wok https://padlet.com/chrissyrikkers/Section6/wish/2012137842 2022-01-25 20:07:09 UTC https://padlet.com/chrissyrikkers/Section6/wish/2012137842 My father was the man of tricks, who sat for an hour mining a watermelon with a circular spoon, who carved the rind into a castle (Maxim, Promothon, Aldrich, Fara) https://padlet.com/chrissyrikkers/Section6/wish/2012138137 2022-01-25 20:07:18 UTC https://padlet.com/chrissyrikkers/Section6/wish/2012138137