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<p class="MsoNormal">Hello Friends,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The November book club book is the Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead. He is the author of the Underground Railroad which we read a few years ago.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Please find attached and below a set of questions and Carl’s vocabulary.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I should have a Zoom link soon.<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">Questions<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">1) Do you think that the racism Elwood endures before going to Nickel differs at all? If so, how?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">2) Discuss the relationship Elwood has with education throughout the novel.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">3) A student, Jaimie, was half-Mexican and was moved back and forth between the “white” and “colored” sections at Nickel. Why do you think Whitehead added a character of this ethnicity to the story?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">4) After Elwood has his first beating how does his outlook on the school and life in general change?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">5) Elwood reads about how Nickel contributes to the community. What are your thoughts about how the surrounding community is benefiting from work the Nickel boys have done? Do you see this relating to historical or modern-day practices?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">6) What did you think when you found out that present day Elwood was actually Turner, who had taken on Elwood’s name to commemorate him? Are you able to separate the two characters?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">7) Why do you think Elwood waited so long to tell Millie the truth about his past and true identity?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">8) Who do you think was the villain in The Nickel Boys? Was it the teachers, the community, the school, or someone/something else?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">9) After listening to the author’s note at the end of the book, were you surprised to learn that Nickel was based on a real “reform school” that only just closed its doors in 2011? Did this change your feelings about the novel at all?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">10) At the very end of the book, roughly 50 years after his time at Nickel, Turner ends up at the Radisson in Tallahassee, which used to be the Richmond. He’s sitting in the very room Elwood used to fantasize about, although he isn’t aware
he has fulfilled his friend’s wish of seeing a black person dine at the Richmond. How does this mark of progress make you feel, given all the injustices minorities continue to face today?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Vocabulary<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">P 3 Prologue<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Part One<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">P 12 Chapter One<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">P 18 Chapter Two<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">P 22 clambering - scrambling<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">P 22 rambunction – a more succinct version of rambunctiousness<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">P 29 Chapter Three<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">P 32 tautened - tightened<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">P 37 avuncular – like an uncle<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">P 38 Dynasound – a sound modulator<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">P 42 conk (noun) – hair – Ran his hand over his conk<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">P 45 Chapter Four<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">P 46 vesseled - filled<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">P 55 Chapter Five<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">P 66 Chapter Six<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">P 70 Chapter Seven<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">P 70 bumptious contact – obtrusive contact<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">P 74 mopery – the action of committing a minor or petty offense such as loitering<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">P 84 Chapter Eight<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">P 85 jinn – in Arabian and Muslim mythology, an intelligent spirit of lower rank than the angels<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">P 85 hooch – alcoholic liquor especially when inferior or illicitly made or obtained<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">P 90 palimpsest – many layers - whose apron was a palimpsest of dark stains<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">P 97 Chapter Nine<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">P 99 mollifying - soothing<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">P 100 remit (noun) - reward<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">P 112 – scatological invective – insults referring to excrement<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">P 115 Chapter Ten<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">P 117 harrowed - stolen<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Part Three<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">P 135 Chapter Eleven<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">P 135 bodega – wine shop<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">P 135 vestibule - hall<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">P 144 Chapter Twelve<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">P 159 Chapter Thirteen<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">P 169 Chapter Fourteen<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">P 171 peonage – convict labor<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">P 174 tray of the curb<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">P 175 – depredation – damage<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">P 182 – tell – mound or hill<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">P 185 Chapter Fifteen<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">P 191 Chapter Sixteen<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">P 202 Epilogue<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">P 210 nattered - broadcasted<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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