Describe a meaningful family tradition unique to your culture and explain how it mirrors or contrasts with the cultural identity themes of expectations and roles in "Girl" by Jamaica Kincaid.

Prompt Response: A meaningful family tradition I have is hosting Thanksgiving at my house. My entire family as well as close family friends travel from far and wide to convene at my house for this one day. A big part of our Thanksgiving is that my dad cooks the main dish, and everyone else contributes by bringing their signature side dish. This contrasts with the cultural themes of expectations in "Girl" by Jamaica Kincaid because instead of all the cooking responsibility falling on the women or just one woman, everyone, men and women, contributes to the cooking.

Summary: In class today we took our yearbook photos and completed the questions for "Girl."

Reflection: I got better practice at analyzing texts and answering discussion questions.

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