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From the Ted Talk by Chinaka Hodge: What will you tell your daughters about 2016?

Unscramble the Blue Letters


She will not care about the arc of your brow, the weight of your clutch. She will not ask of your menntois. Your daughter, for whom you have already carried so much, wants to know what you burhgot, what gift, what lihgt did you keep from extinction? When they came for victims in the night, did you seelp through it or were you roused? What was the cost of siatnyg woke? What, in the year we said time's up, what did you do with your privilege? Did you sup on others' squalor? Did you look away or directly into the flame? Did you know your skill or treat it like a liability? Were you fooled by the epithets of "nasty" or "less than"? Did you teach with an open heart or a clenched fist? Where were you?

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She will not care about the arc of your brow, the weight of your clutch. She will not ask of your ________. Your daughter, for whom you have already carried so much, wants to know what you _______, what gift, what _____ did you keep from extinction? When they came for victims in the night, did you _____ through it or were you roused? What was the cost of _______ woke? What, in the year we said time's up, what did you do with your privilege? Did you sup on others' squalor? Did you look away or directly into the flame? Did you know your skill or treat it like a liability? Were you fooled by the epithets of "nasty" or "less than"? Did you teach with an open heart or a clenched fist? Where were you?

Solution


  1. brought
  2. mentions
  3. sleep
  4. light
  5. staying

Original Text


She will not care about the arc of your brow, the weight of your clutch. She will not ask of your mentions. Your daughter, for whom you have already carried so much, wants to know what you brought, what gift, what light did you keep from extinction? When they came for victims in the night, did you sleep through it or were you roused? What was the cost of staying woke? What, in the year we said time's up, what did you do with your privilege? Did you sup on others' squalor? Did you look away or directly into the flame? Did you know your skill or treat it like a liability? Were you fooled by the epithets of "nasty" or "less than"? Did you teach with an open heart or a clenched fist? Where were you?

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Important Words


  1. arc
  2. brought
  3. brow
  4. care
  5. carried
  6. clenched
  7. clutch
  8. cost
  9. daughter
  10. epithets
  11. extinction
  12. fist
  13. flame
  14. fooled
  15. gift
  16. heart
  17. liability
  18. light
  19. mentions
  20. night
  21. open
  22. privilege
  23. roused
  24. skill
  25. sleep
  26. squalor
  27. staying
  28. teach
  29. treat
  30. victims
  31. weight
  32. woke
  33. year