Her name is actually Immaculeta Uzoma Achilike. In the personal narrative, the writer reveals that her younger self had wished for a cooler name, but she changes her mind when she visits Nigeria and discovers what her name means and connects her to (although she also goes by the simpler Imma).
Here are all the word lists to support the reading of Grade 7 Unit 1's texts from SpringBoard's Common Core ELA series: The Road Not Taken, Choices, Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes, Dust Tracks on a Road, Bad Boy, Why Couldn't I Have Been Named Ashley?, Phaethon, Daedalus and Icarus, Arachne, The Lion, the Fox, and the Stag, A Note from the Author, creation myths
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