... the Oakland, California school board: "In Oakland's majority-Black school districts, Blacks have a combined grade-point average of 1.8 on a scale of 4.0, compared with 2.12 for Whites and more than 3.0 for Chinese students. Blacks also accounted for far more than their share of students who flunked a grade, skipped school, or required remedial classes, and nearly one-fifth of the black 12th graders ... sentence positive. Smitherman's example is, "Don't nobody don't know God can't tell me nothin"." 3. The use of "to be" to suggest repetition. "The coffee be cold." Translation: the coffee...

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• Grade Level: High School

... and development. Through the eyes of the daughters, there is the continuation of the mothers' stories and how they lived in America. The Chinese-American daughters try their best to become "Americanized," at the same time showing off their heritage while their mothers watch on, dismayed. The ... She compares her loss of faith in love to her mother's loss of faith in God. The third section is ironically named American Translation because when the mothers give advice regarding their daughters' problems, the daughters either take the advice to mean something other than the mothers ... the...

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• Grade Level: High School