Discussion Leader-Harkirn Mangat
Questions:
1. What were thoughts on how the book ended? 2. When Aminata meet mMy after so long, what emotions might have gone through Aminata’s head? 3. Why might they have not let Aminata talk to Dante, the servant? 4. When Aminata went to meet the Queen how you think her experience was? How did the Queen come off as? 5.What are your predictions for what will happen after the cliff hanger ending?
Illuminator-Rika Wong
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Word Wizard-Anisha Sangha
1. What were thoughts on how the book ended? 2. When Aminata meet mMy after so long, what emotions might have gone through Aminata’s head? 3. Why might they have not let Aminata talk to Dante, the servant? 4. When Aminata went to meet the Queen how you think her experience was? How did the Queen come off as? 5.What are your predictions for what will happen after the cliff hanger ending?
Illuminator-Rika Wong
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Word Wizard-Anisha Sangha
1.Guffaw
Page #- 450
Paragraph#- 4
Phrase from the text (context): "The man let out a guffaw."
Definition and/or meaning in context: A loud, unrestrained burt of laughter.
2. Benevolence
Page #- 451
Paragraph#-7
Phrase from the text (context):"In the absence of my husband, a son or a daughter, I longed for the African sun to envelop me in its own kind of benevolence."
Definition and/or meaning in context: An act of kindness; a charitable gift.
3. Caricature
Page #- 462
Paragraph#- 1
Phrase from the text (context): "For the Morning Post, the artist James Gillray had drawn a caricature of me plucking a cube of sugar from the fingers of King George 3rd."
Definition and/or meaning in context: The art or process of producing such pictures, descriptions, etc.
4. Mutton
Page #- 467
Paragraph#- 7
Phrase from the text (context): "Soup and bread, soup and bread, soup and bread, rice and a bit of mutton, when I was able to hold it down."
Definition and/or meaning in context: The flesh of sheep especially full grown or more mature sheep, used as food.
5. Quills
Page #- 457
Paragraph#- 3
Phrase from the text (context): "Supplied with food, and quills and ink and paper, kept warm about the legs by blankets, sitting at a comfortable table with candles burning, I began to relate the story of my life."
Definition and/or meaning in context: A feather, as of a goose, formed into a pen for writing.
Stagecrafter-Anisha Sangha
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