Probing

Michelle E. and Ashley D. (Adah, pg 55) Step 1: Additional Information: - Adah has read many books in the past with mothers knowledge. - Leah is more devoted to spending time with her father. - Adah’s intelligence sparks out and is seen throughout this passage. - Adah compares herself to Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.

Step 2: Connections and Ask Questions - Mother notices things that others don’t see. - Does Leah really not know that the quote wasn’t from the bible?

Mayra S and Cesar B (Ruth May Price,pg 20) Step 1: (Questions, comments) - Why does Ruth Price say that Africans are like the tribes of Ham? - Is Ruth May Price saying that all the youngsters are bad? - What time period does this story take place in?

Additional Information: - There is still seperation between the blacks and whites - Jim Crow is still alive during this time and he wants the whites to believe that the blacks are different then the whites and that the blacks should be seperated from the whites.

Step 2: Assumptions: - In the text there is no evidence that the only day in which the black people are allowed to go to the zoo is on Thursdays. - To some people the bible doesn’t prove anything.