https://padlet.com/dsidler2/w9pcizj7qp6lnwbq This the the Book Club for In the Country We Love. Here students of all periods will house their weekly content and respond to the content of their peers. Look for the topic question each Monday and respond by Friday. . en-us 2022-04-25 21:13:32 UTC 2026-02-07 10:12:00 UTC hello@padlet.com dsidler2 https://padlet.com/dsidler2/w9pcizj7qp6lnwbq/wish/2157360329 Choose a passage from your reading that describes a character. Re-write the passage here and explain what it makes you think about the character.]]> 2022-04-25 21:13:32 UTC https://padlet.com/dsidler2/w9pcizj7qp6lnwbq/wish/2157360329 https://padlet.com/dsidler2/w9pcizj7qp6lnwbq/wish/2167355181 '' i became my parents official translator" she  was the only one that spoke and understood English from her family so she would have to go with her parents whenever they needed help with English. she was really mature for her age. ]]> 2022-05-02 20:27:59 UTC https://padlet.com/dsidler2/w9pcizj7qp6lnwbq/wish/2167355181 https://padlet.com/dsidler2/w9pcizj7qp6lnwbq/wish/2167433142 "We typically had a yard. Sometimes, we lived in an apartment; other times, we we're in a two-family house. I didn't care as long as we were together". You can get the idea that she didn't mind in what condition she lived in she only cared that she still had her family with her. ]]> 2022-05-02 21:53:48 UTC https://padlet.com/dsidler2/w9pcizj7qp6lnwbq/wish/2167433142 https://padlet.com/dsidler2/w9pcizj7qp6lnwbq/wish/2167434115 “The day you finally start dealing with your past is the day you stop dragging it into the present.” This quote makes me think that the character has been dealing with her past for so long that she doesn't have time to think about whats happening in her presents. Now that she stop thinking about her past her could think about what happening in her presents. ]]> 2022-05-02 21:55:07 UTC https://padlet.com/dsidler2/w9pcizj7qp6lnwbq/wish/2167434115 https://padlet.com/dsidler2/w9pcizj7qp6lnwbq/wish/2167435860 Dianne wanted to get out of poverty and help her family and she desperately wanted to get into BAA and not go to any of the other schools around her because "I felt If I attended any other public school, I'd fall through the cracks, or I'd crack out" meaning she wanted to be something and not fall out of school like some of her peers in middle school and she was going to work hard for it.]]> 2022-05-02 21:57:26 UTC https://padlet.com/dsidler2/w9pcizj7qp6lnwbq/wish/2167435860 dsidler2 https://padlet.com/dsidler2/w9pcizj7qp6lnwbq/wish/2172104382 By this point in your memoir, the author's CONFLICT is probably becoming clear.  Usually memoir relies heavily on INTERNAL CONFLICT, since the author is narrating a true story about themselves.  

 1) Locate/Read a passage revealing INTERNAL CONFLICT
 2) Discuss briefly how this passage reveals the inward/psychological struggle of the author]]> 2022-05-05 21:45:56 UTC https://padlet.com/dsidler2/w9pcizj7qp6lnwbq/wish/2172104382 https://padlet.com/dsidler2/w9pcizj7qp6lnwbq/wish/2173467645 A conflict that happened in the ] book was that Diane brother go in a altercation with his step father. The brother didn't like his step father.]]> 2022-05-06 21:28:44 UTC https://padlet.com/dsidler2/w9pcizj7qp6lnwbq/wish/2173467645 https://padlet.com/dsidler2/w9pcizj7qp6lnwbq/wish/2173469062 A conflict that happened in the book "In The Country We Love" is that Dianne had to make a decision about whether she wanted to stay in the US or go to Colombia with her parents. It was an internal conflict because she had to think to herself what would of been best for her.]]> 2022-05-06 21:31:05 UTC https://padlet.com/dsidler2/w9pcizj7qp6lnwbq/wish/2173469062 https://padlet.com/dsidler2/w9pcizj7qp6lnwbq/wish/2173471091 ¨My Papi was also incredibly careful whenever he was out. He stayed more quiet in public than he did at home, never wanting to say or do anything that might draw attention¨. You can see that Diane had a father who was always trying to keep a low profile because he was scared to get taken away from his family. He was not exactly able to live a normal life in fear of getting deported and getting sent back to Colombia. Diane always lived with the fear of her family being deported to Colombia. ]]> 2022-05-06 21:34:31 UTC https://padlet.com/dsidler2/w9pcizj7qp6lnwbq/wish/2173471091