Inside Out Section 1- Saigon by Tami Muniz https://padlet.com/tmuniz6/InsideoutSaigon Choose at least two words from what you have read. Be sure to include your name, the word, the page, the original sentence, and the definition and the root/origin. Include anything meaningful to help you remember the word. en-us 2022-04-25 19:49:25 UTC 2025-04-29 20:21:36 UTC hello@padlet.com Dong https://padlet.com/tmuniz6/InsideoutSaigon/wish/3425611859 Aidan-Definition: A Vietnamese currency.

Sentence: "Last September she would give me 50 dong to buy 100 grams of pork, a bushel of water spinach, 5 cubes of tofu." (pg. 19)

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Sentence: "My biggest papaya is light yellow, still flecked with green." (pg. 60)


]]> 2025-04-26 03:02:04 UTC https://padlet.com/tmuniz6/InsideoutSaigon/wish/3425613680 Gaunt -Randy https://padlet.com/tmuniz6/InsideoutSaigon/wish/3428660045 (of a person) lean and haggard, especially because of suffering, hunger, or age.


Who can go against a mother who has become gaunt as bark raising four children


pg 54

]]> 2025-04-28 20:52:16 UTC https://padlet.com/tmuniz6/InsideoutSaigon/wish/3428660045 communism -Randy https://padlet.com/tmuniz6/InsideoutSaigon/wish/3428662619 a way of organizing a country where the government controls almost everything, like factories and land, so everyone shares the wealth


Mother and Father came south convinced it would be easier to breath away from communism


pg 28

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Definition - Full of rebuke; critical.


Example - pg. 30 "Wish mother would stop chiding me to stay calm, which makes it worse".

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Definition - A display a frustration or sadness


Example - But last night I pouted when mother insisted one of my brothers must rise first".

]]> 2025-04-28 22:29:06 UTC https://padlet.com/tmuniz6/InsideoutSaigon/wish/3428720192 Glutinous (pg 1) https://padlet.com/tmuniz6/InsideoutSaigon/wish/3428787832 Bella West: Like glue in texture: sticky (Oxford Languages)

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one that is the least old. especially : the youngest child or member of a family

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Definition: Having a bearing or demeanor befitting a president; dignified and confident.



]]> 2025-04-29 18:53:55 UTC https://padlet.com/tmuniz6/InsideoutSaigon/wish/3430384013 Saïgon - Isabella White iw0220 https://padlet.com/tmuniz6/InsideoutSaigon/wish/3430413135 Saïgon city was the former capital of South Vietnam. However North Vietnam had captured the area thus winning the war. they renamed Ho Chi Minh city. to honor former president Hồ Chí Minh, who had died 6 years before.

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