3rd Hour Jing-Mei Characterization Quotes by Hannah Appold https://padlet.com/happold1/yf4v5ttaf5gng6iw Post your response to the discussion topic by clicking the plus button below. en-us 2025-09-12 18:14:48 UTC 2025-09-15 17:45:30 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f4ac.png happold1 https://padlet.com/happold1/yf4v5ttaf5gng6iw/wish/3585924901 "I'll never be the kind of daughter you want me to be" (Tan 5)


]]> 2025-09-15 17:24:20 UTC https://padlet.com/happold1/yf4v5ttaf5gng6iw/wish/3585924901 https://padlet.com/happold1/yf4v5ttaf5gng6iw/wish/3585928505 Why don't you like me the way I am?" I cried. "I'm not a genius! I can't play the piano. And even if I could, I wouldn't go on TV if you paid me a million dollars!" (Page 2/3)

]]> 2025-09-15 17:26:55 UTC https://padlet.com/happold1/yf4v5ttaf5gng6iw/wish/3585928505 https://padlet.com/happold1/yf4v5ttaf5gng6iw/wish/3585929102 “I began to cry. Such a sad, ugly girl” (Tan 2)

]]> 2025-09-15 17:27:23 UTC https://padlet.com/happold1/yf4v5ttaf5gng6iw/wish/3585929102 https://padlet.com/happold1/yf4v5ttaf5gng6iw/wish/3585929259 “Why don’t you like me the way I am I cried I’m not a genius I can’t play the piano and even if I could I wouldn’t go on TV if you paid me a million dollars” (Tan p.2&3)

]]> 2025-09-15 17:27:30 UTC https://padlet.com/happold1/yf4v5ttaf5gng6iw/wish/3585929259 https://padlet.com/happold1/yf4v5ttaf5gng6iw/wish/3585929453 “I emerged with an uneven mess of crinkly black fuzz.” (Tan 1)

]]> 2025-09-15 17:27:39 UTC https://padlet.com/happold1/yf4v5ttaf5gng6iw/wish/3585929453 https://padlet.com/happold1/yf4v5ttaf5gng6iw/wish/3585929909 “My whole face quivering as I tried not to cry”(Tan 4).

]]> 2025-09-15 17:27:55 UTC https://padlet.com/happold1/yf4v5ttaf5gng6iw/wish/3585929909 https://padlet.com/happold1/yf4v5ttaf5gng6iw/wish/3585929949 “I was filled with a sense that i would soon become perfect.”

(Tan 1)

]]> 2025-09-15 17:27:56 UTC https://padlet.com/happold1/yf4v5ttaf5gng6iw/wish/3585929949 https://padlet.com/happold1/yf4v5ttaf5gng6iw/wish/3585930473 “Then I wish I were never born! I wish I were dead!” (Tan 5)



]]> 2025-09-15 17:28:19 UTC https://padlet.com/happold1/yf4v5ttaf5gng6iw/wish/3585930473 https://padlet.com/happold1/yf4v5ttaf5gng6iw/wish/3585931085 “I now had bad hair the length of a boys; with curly bangs that hung at a slant two inches above my eyebrows” (Tan 1)

]]> 2025-09-15 17:28:41 UTC https://padlet.com/happold1/yf4v5ttaf5gng6iw/wish/3585931085 https://padlet.com/happold1/yf4v5ttaf5gng6iw/wish/3585931310 “I began to cry. Such a sad, ugly girl! I made high pitched noises like a crazed animal trying to scratch out my face in the mirror.” (Page 2)

]]> 2025-09-15 17:28:45 UTC https://padlet.com/happold1/yf4v5ttaf5gng6iw/wish/3585931310 https://padlet.com/happold1/yf4v5ttaf5gng6iw/wish/3585931378 “I began to cry. Such a sad, ugly girl!” (Tan 2)

]]> 2025-09-15 17:28:46 UTC https://padlet.com/happold1/yf4v5ttaf5gng6iw/wish/3585931378 https://padlet.com/happold1/yf4v5ttaf5gng6iw/wish/3585931465 “Why should I? I’m not a genius.” (Tan 5)

]]> 2025-09-15 17:28:50 UTC https://padlet.com/happold1/yf4v5ttaf5gng6iw/wish/3585931465 https://padlet.com/happold1/yf4v5ttaf5gng6iw/wish/3585932036 “I By then I saw my mother's face, her stricken face.was very confident. I remember my childish excitement. It was as if I knew, without a doubt, that the prodigy side of me really did exist. I had no fear whatsoever, no nervousness.”.(Tan 4)

]]> 2025-09-15 17:29:02 UTC https://padlet.com/happold1/yf4v5ttaf5gng6iw/wish/3585932036 https://padlet.com/happold1/yf4v5ttaf5gng6iw/wish/3585933170 “Why don’t you like me the way I am? I cried, I’m not a genius! I can’t play the piano, and even if I could. I wouldn’t go on tv if you paid me.” (Tan 2).

]]> 2025-09-15 17:29:48 UTC https://padlet.com/happold1/yf4v5ttaf5gng6iw/wish/3585933170 https://padlet.com/happold1/yf4v5ttaf5gng6iw/wish/3585933659 “We're both listening only in our head!"

]]> 2025-09-15 17:30:11 UTC https://padlet.com/happold1/yf4v5ttaf5gng6iw/wish/3585933659 https://padlet.com/happold1/yf4v5ttaf5gng6iw/wish/3585934358 I could be lazy and get away with mistakes, lots of mistakes. If I hit the wrong notes because I hadn't practiced enough, I never corrected myself; I just kept playing in rhythm…So maybe I never really gave myself a fair chance“ (Tan 5)

]]> 2025-09-15 17:30:44 UTC https://padlet.com/happold1/yf4v5ttaf5gng6iw/wish/3585934358 https://padlet.com/happold1/yf4v5ttaf5gng6iw/wish/3585934955 “Who ask you to be genius.” she shouted. “Only ask you be your best. For you sake. You think I want you to be genius? Hnnh! What for! Who ask you!”?(Tan 3)

]]> 2025-09-15 17:31:09 UTC https://padlet.com/happold1/yf4v5ttaf5gng6iw/wish/3585934955 https://padlet.com/happold1/yf4v5ttaf5gng6iw/wish/3585936715 2025-09-15 17:32:16 UTC https://padlet.com/happold1/yf4v5ttaf5gng6iw/wish/3585936715 https://padlet.com/happold1/yf4v5ttaf5gng6iw/wish/3585936902 “I was supposed to memorize the whole thing. But I dawdled over it, playing a few bars and then cheating, looking up to see what notes followed.” (Tan 3-4)

]]> 2025-09-15 17:32:21 UTC https://padlet.com/happold1/yf4v5ttaf5gng6iw/wish/3585936902 https://padlet.com/happold1/yf4v5ttaf5gng6iw/wish/3585936933 “I never listened to what I was playing. I daydream about being somewhere else, about being someone else.” (Page 4 sentence 4-5)

]]> 2025-09-15 17:32:23 UTC https://padlet.com/happold1/yf4v5ttaf5gng6iw/wish/3585936933