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Nilaja Sun, No Child...

Nilaja Sun, No Child...

Read No Child... and check your comprehension by answering the following questions. Then “submit” your work.

Question 1.2340

1. The action of this play is set in

the Denzel Washington School of Dramatic Arts.

Malcolm X Vocational High School, the Bronx, USA.

Robert Moses High School.

the Saint Tupac Shakur Preparatory School.

Question 1.2341

2. According to the janitor/narrator, lesson number one of this play is that

he is proof that some things may change, but the basic things stay the same.

by riding on the number six train, a person can cross from one of the richest congressional districts in the nation over to the Bronx and the poorest congressional district in the nation—in only eighteen minutes.

without idealism, like Ms. Tam’s, a teacher cannot succeed.

no part-time “teaching artist” is going to have an effect on these kids.

Question 1.2342

3. Ms. Sun’s project is for the class to

write and perform the students’ own play—about themselves.

perform A Raisin in the Sun.

perform West Side Story.

perform Our Country’s Good, a play about convicts putting on a play.

Question 1.2343

4. According to Ms. Sun, who is the leader in this class?

Jerome

Shondrika

Jose

Coca

Question 1.2344

5. The kids’ performance is dedicated to

Ms. Sun.

Ms. Tam and Mrs. Kennedy.

Mr. Johnson and Mrs. Projensky.

Jose’s brother and Janitor Baron.