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<p class="MsoNormal">Hello Colleagues,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The Potomac Chapter book club will meet at 7:00 pm, Wednesday January 8, 2020, at the home of Sandy and John Halverson. The address is 810 22<sup>nd</sup> Street South, Arlington, Virginia 22202.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">As usual we will order dinner. If you wish to join us for dinner please arrive by 6:30 pm. I will send a menu closer to January 8.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Our book is the Matriarch a biography of Barbara Bush. Karin and I were not able to find specific questions for this book. She found some generic biography questions. Please find them attached and below.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">See you on Wednesday.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">John<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Biography Project Discussion Questions <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">1. How does a person become a hero or a role model for others?
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<p class="MsoNormal">2. What was this person’s major accomplishment? If you were designing symbolic
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<p class="MsoNormal">representations for this person, what would you include? <o:p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">3. How did this person demonstrate perseverance? <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">6. What did you learn from this person’s life? <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">7. Are there ways you can connect your experiences with this person’s experiences?
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<p class="MsoNormal">8. What kind of impact did this person have on the lives of others?
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<p class="MsoNormal">9. Can you link this person’s life to specific examples from fiction?
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<p class="MsoNormal">10. Can you relate qualities in this person or aspects of this person’s experience to archetypes in
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<p class="MsoNormal">Text Box: Copyright 2004 IRA/NCTE. All rights reserved. <o:p>
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