Unit 4: Selection Vocabulary 4

They would learn how to guide fellow seniors to apply for college or plan for postsecondary vocations.

He also gained confidence from “rap sessions” led by youth facilitators.

In those sessions, students spoke candidly about their fears, insecurities and family pressures, as well as their achievements.

He also received a crash course in community organizing: how to build relationships and inspire others through the “public narrative” technique; and how to plan and run a campaign—how to set goals, use data to assess progress, and build momentum, for example.

“If the students aren’t doing this, many are not getting college and career counseling at all,” said Raquel Figueroa, the Managing Director of Implementation for PeerForward.

It once occurred to a certain king, that if he always knew the right time to begin everything; if he knew who were the right people to listen to, and whom to avoid; and, above all, if he always knew what was the most important thing to do, he would never fail in anything he might undertake.

Others declared that it was impossible to decide beforehand the right time for every action; but that, not letting oneself be absorbed in idle pastimes, one should always attend to all that was going on, and then do what was most needful.

But still wishing to find the right answers to his questions, he decided to consult a hermit, widely renowned for his wisdom.

He just spat on his hand and recommenced digging.

I knew you had gone alone to see the hermit, and I resolved to kill you on your way back.

On one cold day, I so dreaded going outside that I started eating my second taco rather slowly.

I wanted the ground to open up and swallow me whole.

And then for two days after that, I ate inside a stall in the girls’ restroom.

I hesitated and pulled out my lunch.

Then I remembered Clara and her stories, so I told Coach Clarke about Clara and how she told me that I had inherited my great-great grandmother’s gift for kicking like a mule.

They assured us that there was always a person at the school who could speak Spanish.

Then Miss Hopley did a formidable thing. She stood up. Had she been standing when we entered she would have seemed tall. But rising from her chair she soared.

Miss Hopley was not a giant in body but when she mobilized it to a standing position she seemed a match for giants.

She, too, sat down and the questions and answers began by way of our interpreter.

As long as the questions continued, Doña Henriqueta could stay and I was secure.

“Ito can read a sentence,” and small Japanese Ito, squint-eyed and shy, slowly read aloud while the class listened in wonder: “Come, Skipper, come. Come and run.”