https://padlet.com/needham/qxjr3wp7dos9424c Please do not write your name on your Padlet post. en-us 2021-10-26 11:35:16 UTC 2026-01-02 01:22:58 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.com/needham/qxjr3wp7dos9424c/wish/1844816470 I infer that the family is trying to fit in.

"As our family of four sat stiffly in a row, my younger brother and I stole glances at our parents for a clue as to what to do next."]]> 2021-10-26 12:49:22 UTC https://padlet.com/needham/qxjr3wp7dos9424c/wish/1844816470 https://padlet.com/needham/qxjr3wp7dos9424c/wish/1844817409 "Next day Meg and I got on the school bus together. I wasn't sure how she would feel about me after the spectacle our family made at the party. But she was just the same as usual." 

My inference is that Meg is a nice friend because she didn't comment about the previous night's spectacle.]]> 2021-10-26 12:49:40 UTC https://padlet.com/needham/qxjr3wp7dos9424c/wish/1844817409 cw2812 https://padlet.com/needham/qxjr3wp7dos9424c/wish/1844821960 One inference I made was that the narrator is really smart. In the text it says: "Before I started pedaling, I heard her voice behind me. “You can’t go out in public like that! People can see all the way up to your thighs!”
“I’m sorry,” I said innocently. “I thought you were in a hurry to get the f lour.” For dinner we were going to have pot-stickers (fried Chinese
dumplings), and we needed a lot of f lour.
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“Couldn’t you borrow a girl’s bicycle?” complained Mother. “That way your skirt won’t be pushed up.”
“There aren’t too many of those around,” I said. “Almost all the girls wear jeans while riding a bike, so they don’t see any point buying a
girl’s bike.”
We didn’t eat pot-stickers that evening, and Mother was thoughtful. Next day we took the bus downtown and she bought me a pair of jeans. In the same week, my brother made the baseball team of his junior high." The main character found a smart way to get what she wanted. It also says "They met my homeroom teacher and beamed as she told them that I would make honor roll soon at the rate I was going. Of course Chinese etiquette forced Father to say that I was a very stupid girl and Mother to protest that the teacher was showing favoritism toward me. But I could tell they were both very proud." She is really smart because she was going to make the honor roll.

]]> 2021-10-26 12:51:00 UTC https://padlet.com/needham/qxjr3wp7dos9424c/wish/1844821960 https://padlet.com/needham/qxjr3wp7dos9424c/wish/1844824921 "I eventually got acquainted with a few other kids from school, but Meg was still the only real friend i had."
I infer that the girl is lonely. ]]> 2021-10-26 12:51:56 UTC https://padlet.com/needham/qxjr3wp7dos9424c/wish/1844824921 https://padlet.com/needham/qxjr3wp7dos9424c/wish/1844825907 Mother is paranoid 

Before I started pedaling, I heard her voice behind me. “You can’t go out in public like that! People can see all the way up to your thighs!” “I’m sorry,” I said innocently. “I thought you were in a hurry to get the flour.” For dinner we were going to have pot-stickers (fried Chinese dumplings), and we needed a lot of flour. “Couldn’t you borrow a girl’s bicycle?” complained Mother. “That way your skirt won’t be pushed up.”

]]> 2021-10-26 12:52:13 UTC https://padlet.com/needham/qxjr3wp7dos9424c/wish/1844825907 https://padlet.com/needham/qxjr3wp7dos9424c/wish/1844826576 "...Toward the end she pulled hard on her straws and went shloop,shloop,shloop. 'Do you always slurp when you eat a milkshake?' I asked, before I could stop myself. Meg grinne. Sure. All Americans slurp."]]> 2021-10-26 12:52:27 UTC https://padlet.com/needham/qxjr3wp7dos9424c/wish/1844826576 https://padlet.com/needham/qxjr3wp7dos9424c/wish/1844826664

How can the Lin family become more American? Explain.

 ]]> 2021-10-26 12:52:28 UTC https://padlet.com/needham/qxjr3wp7dos9424c/wish/1844826664 nc321 https://padlet.com/needham/qxjr3wp7dos9424c/wish/1844827039 "I pulled the strings out of the stalk "zip-z-zi-zip." My brother followed suit. "Zip-z-i-zip." To my left, my parents were taking care of their own stalk. "Z-z-zip", z-z-zip, z-z-zip." Suddenly I realized there was dead silence.]]> 2021-10-26 12:52:35 UTC https://padlet.com/needham/qxjr3wp7dos9424c/wish/1844827039 https://padlet.com/needham/qxjr3wp7dos9424c/wish/1844827217 "Suddenly I realized that there was dead silence except for our zipping. Looking up, I saw that the eyes of everyone in the room were on our family. Mr. and Mrs. Gleason, their daughter Meg, who was my friend, and their neighbors the Badels—they were all staring at us as we busily pulled the strings of our celery. "
Inference: She is embarrassed ]]> 2021-10-26 12:52:39 UTC https://padlet.com/needham/qxjr3wp7dos9424c/wish/1844827217 https://padlet.com/needham/qxjr3wp7dos9424c/wish/1844827381 One inference I made was that the family doesn't know what a buffet dinner is because they brought their chairs over to the buffet and sat down to eat instead of helping themselves to some food]]> 2021-10-26 12:52:42 UTC https://padlet.com/needham/qxjr3wp7dos9424c/wish/1844827381 https://padlet.com/needham/qxjr3wp7dos9424c/wish/1844827922 Mother took a bite of her celery. Crunch. “It’s not bad!” she whispered. Father took a bite of his celery. Crunch. “Yes, it is good,” he said


Inference: the girls mom and dad are trying to be respectful to Mr. and Mrs. Gleason]]> 2021-10-26 12:52:53 UTC https://padlet.com/needham/qxjr3wp7dos9424c/wish/1844827922 https://padlet.com/needham/qxjr3wp7dos9424c/wish/1844830859 The mom is struggling  to accept American ways.




Before I started pedaling, I heard her voice behind me. “You can’t go out in public like that! People can see all the way up to your thighs!” “I’m sorry,” I said innocently. “I thought you were in a hurry to get the flour.” For dinner we were going to have pot-stickers (fried Chinese dumplings), and we needed a lot of flour. “Couldn’t you borrow a girl’s bicycle?” complained Mother. “That way your skirt won’t be pushed up.”]]> 2021-10-26 12:53:54 UTC https://padlet.com/needham/qxjr3wp7dos9424c/wish/1844830859 https://padlet.com/needham/qxjr3wp7dos9424c/wish/1844832403 An inference I have about all American slurp is that they are very shy at first. '' After arriving at the house, we shook hands with our hosts and packed our selfs onto a sofa. As our family of four sat stiffly in a row, my younger brother and I stole glances at our parents for a clue of what to do next. This shows that they were hesitant and shy at the beginning of there first dinner party in America.]]> 2021-10-26 12:54:26 UTC https://padlet.com/needham/qxjr3wp7dos9424c/wish/1844832403 nc321 https://padlet.com/needham/qxjr3wp7dos9424c/wish/1844832563 The girl's family is trying to copy how Americans eat dinner in the Chinese way. They want to fit in and after all of the other families were shocked that they pulled out their celery's strings, the girl's family became embarrassed]]> 2021-10-26 12:54:29 UTC https://padlet.com/needham/qxjr3wp7dos9424c/wish/1844832563 https://padlet.com/needham/qxjr3wp7dos9424c/wish/1844832720 The girl just wanted some jeans so she could fit in.]]> 2021-10-26 12:54:33 UTC https://padlet.com/needham/qxjr3wp7dos9424c/wish/1844832720 https://padlet.com/needham/qxjr3wp7dos9424c/wish/1844834670 Meg is really kind and immediately open to being friends with the girl who just moved. "Meg was the first friend I had made after coming to America." This quote shows that the girls knows they are friends otherwise she wouldn't say that. Later after the celery at dinner Meg doesn't say a thing about it which shows she's not going to make fun of her for it. ]]> 2021-10-26 12:55:09 UTC https://padlet.com/needham/qxjr3wp7dos9424c/wish/1844834670 https://padlet.com/needham/qxjr3wp7dos9424c/wish/1844836524 I glanced at Meg, to see if she needed more food, and my eyes nearly popped out at the sight of her plate. It was piled with food: the sweet-and- sour meat pushed right against the chicken shreds, and the chicken sauce ran into the prawns. She had been taking food from a second dish before she finished eating her helping from the first!
Horrified, I turned to look at Mrs. Gleason. She was dumping rice out of her bowl and putting it on her dinner plate. Then she ladled prawns
and gravy on top of the rice and mixed everything together, the way you
mix sand, gravel, and cement to make concrete.
I couldn’t bear to look any longer! His shows that the Gleason s didn't know how to eat Chinese food.

]]> 2021-10-26 12:55:49 UTC https://padlet.com/needham/qxjr3wp7dos9424c/wish/1844836524 nc321 https://padlet.com/needham/qxjr3wp7dos9424c/wish/1844836728 At the next table a waiter was pouring wine. When a large shloop reached him, he froze. The bottle continued to pour, and red wine f looded the tabletop and into the lap of a customer. Even the customer didn’t notice anything at first, being also hypnotized by the shloop, shloop, shloop.

]]> 2021-10-26 12:55:53 UTC https://padlet.com/needham/qxjr3wp7dos9424c/wish/1844836728 https://padlet.com/needham/qxjr3wp7dos9424c/wish/1844851135 Her dad is really hardworking at his job. "He worked for an electronics company, and after his English started improving, his superiors decided to appoint him to a position more suited to his training. The promotion not only brought a higher salary but was also a tremendous boost to his pride."]]> 2021-10-26 13:00:23 UTC https://padlet.com/needham/qxjr3wp7dos9424c/wish/1844851135 https://padlet.com/needham/qxjr3wp7dos9424c/wish/1844856019 “ Most Chinese don’t care for dairy products, and in those days I wasn’t even ready to drink fresh milk. Sour cream sounded perfectly revolting. Our family shook our heads in unison. Mrs. Gleason went off with the relish tray to the other guests, and we carefully watched what they did. Everyone seemed to eat the raw vegetables quite happily.” ]]> 2021-10-26 13:01:51 UTC https://padlet.com/needham/qxjr3wp7dos9424c/wish/1844856019 https://padlet.com/needham/qxjr3wp7dos9424c/wish/1844880645 In the book All American Slurp they went to a fancy expensive restaurant to celebrate there's dad and she didn't want to be there looking different and feeling different so she ran to the bathroom and was in there're for a while In the book All American Slurp they went to a fancy expensive restaurant to celebrate there's dad and she didn't want to be there looking different and feeling different so she ran to the bathroom and was in there're for a while "It was too much. “I need to go to the toilet,” I mumbled, jumping to my feet. A waiter, sensing my urgency, quickly directed me to the 200
ladies’ room.
I splashed cold water on my burning face, and as I dried myself with a paper towel, I stared into the mirror. In this perfumed ladies’ room, with its pink-and-silver wallpaper and marbled sinks, I looked completely out of place. What was doing here? What was our family doing here."
Lakeview Restaurant? In America?  g
The door to the ladies’ room opened. A woman came in and glanced curiously at me. I retreated into one of the toilet cubicles and latched the door.
Time passed—maybe half an hour, maybe an hour. Then I heard the 210
door open again, and my mother’s voice. “Are you in there? You’re not sick, are you?”
There was real concern in her voice. A girl can’t leave her family just because they slurp their soup. Besides, the toilet cubicle had a few
drawbacks as a permanent residence. “I’m all right,” I said, undoing the latch.
Mother didn’t tell me how the rest of the dinner went, and I didn’t want to know. In the weeks following, I managed to push the whole
thing into the back of my mind, where it jumped out at me only a few times a day. Even now, I turn hot all over when I think of the Lakeview 220
Restaurant.  h

]]> 2021-10-26 13:09:25 UTC https://padlet.com/needham/qxjr3wp7dos9424c/wish/1844880645 https://padlet.com/needham/qxjr3wp7dos9424c/wish/1846019347 Text evidence: He spent all his time with some boys that were teaching him basketball, and in no time he could speak English faster than I could-not better, but faster.

Inference: Her brother is an outgoing person. Because he doesn't care if he makes a lot of mistakes when speaking English, he just cares about communicating faster.]]> 2021-10-26 18:53:56 UTC https://padlet.com/needham/qxjr3wp7dos9424c/wish/1846019347 https://padlet.com/needham/qxjr3wp7dos9424c/wish/1849552345 I think that Meg is a very nice and inclusive girl, as seen where the narrator said "Meg was still the only friend at school I had"]]> 2021-10-27 22:13:06 UTC https://padlet.com/needham/qxjr3wp7dos9424c/wish/1849552345