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1.05 Quiz: Life Stories 2
Part B
Select the excerpt that best supports the answer in Part A
"At Lincoln, making us into Americans did not mean scrubbing away what made us originally foreign. The teachers called
O us as our parents did, or as close as they could pronounce our names in Spanish or Japanese. No one was ever scolded
or punished for speaking in his native tongue on the playground."
"What Miss Hopley said to us we did not know but we saw in her eyes a warm welcome and when she took off her glasses
O and straightened up she smiled wholeheartedly, like Mrs. Dodson. We were, of course, saying nothing, only catching the
friendliness of her voice and the sparkle in her eyes while she said words we did not understand."
"During the next few weeks Miss Ryan overcame my fears of tall, energetic teachers as she bent over my desk to help me
with a word in the pre-primer. Step by step, she loosened me and my classmates from the safe anchorage of the desks for
recitations at the blackboard and consultations at her desk-
"Like ito and several other first graders who did not know English, I received private lessons from Miss Ryan in the closet
a narrow hall off the classroom with a door at each end. Next to one of these doors Miss Ryan placed a large chair for
herself and a small one for me."