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Four students sit around a table in a library. The students’ books, digital devices, and notebooks are out on the table. While they talk, other students work quietly in the background.
Transcript
00:00 Lorenzo: The section where Ernie talks about her is really interesting.
00:03 Listen to this: "It was as if in that closet we were both discovering together
00:07 the secret to the English language.
00:09 And grieving together over the tragedies of Bo Peep."
00:11 Brianna: The tragedies of Bo Peep?
00:13 Marco: She lost her sheep, didn't you hear?
00:16 Lorenzo: Miss Ryan seems to be experiencing it with Ernie,
00:19 as if for the first time.
00:21 Morgan: Right! A few lines later he says,
00:23 "It was not only that we sensed she was with it but also that she was with us."
00:28 So not only is she cool, but she's also on their side.
00:32 Marco: Hey! That's kind of what Ernie likes about Miss Hopley, right?
00:35 That she's on his side.
00:36 Lorenzo: There's more.
00:37 He says that, "Miss Ryan loosened me and my classmates from the
00:40 safe anchorage of the desk
00:42 for recitations at the blackboard and consultations at her desk."
00:45 She's encouraging them to move around in the world.
00:48 Morgan: So, maybe confidence is one of the things he learns?
00:51 Brianna: His confidence grows as he learns to read too,
00:53 like when he pronounces butterfly for the first time.
00:55 Marco: Not only is he proud of himself
00:57 but he talks about how Miss Ryan makes a big deal about it.
01:00 Lorenzo: She celebrates every step of their progress.
01:02 Morgan: Miss Hopley gets excited about stuff too.
01:04 When the kids in the class share their stories about home,
01:07 it says she expresses "wonder."
01:09 "It was easy for me to feel that becoming a proud American, as she said we should,
01:13 did not mean feeling ashamed of being a Mexican."
01:16 Lorenzo: Gosh, Miss Hopley's the best.
01:18 Brianna: Better than Miss Ryan?
01:19 Lorenzo: Hard to say.
01:20 Miss Hopley makes the kids feel like their stories from home are really important
01:24 Marco: So it sounds like Ernie doesn't have to lose his Mexican identity
01:27 in order to assimilate.
01:28 Morgan: Maybe you're right Marco.
01:29 Maybe assimilating is easy for Ernie.
01:31 Marco: I change my mind.