10th

No Disrespect

By: Sister Sister Souljah

Comments:

1. She can't be with him just because she wants to have sex.

2. Sharing men with another girl is a crazy thought and thing to do.

3. Trina wanted to kill her for trying to take her man away from her.

4. Her friend is right she wants to be the one who controls the relationship because of her past relationship with Chance.

5. Derek left her to go to his true love. You don't have to be perfect to have love.

Questions:

1. Is Trina going to agree in sharing her man?

2. Does Derekn only want to be with her because she's smart and not because he doesn't love her?

3. Why does she like to be in control so much? Is this what's happening with the relationships she has had?

4. Why did Derek return to Trina?

Vocabulary:

1. Incarcerated: to place somebody in a place or situation of confinement pg. 316

2. Polygamy: the custom of having more than one spouse at the same time pg. 323

3. Genocide: the systematic killing of all the people from a national, ethnic, or religious group, or an attempt to do this pg. 346

Literary Terms:

1. " Men who lied and slithered in and out of holes like snakes should get it back tenfold, I felt. " pg. Simile

2. " I sucked my teeth at her." pg. 346 Onomatopoeia

Overview Sentence:

1. She thought she found an honest relationship but acutally just wanted to be in control of everything. She wanted to share a man with another girl but got the surprise that he left her to go with the other girl because that was his love.

9th

No Disrespect

By: Sister Souljah

Comments:

1. Chance really said he wants to come first in her life. No man will ever be first in my life.

2. Tusani assumed to her that Chance might have a baby and to watch out if she gets hurt.

3. Her progress in helping the kids is going really well.

4. I think Chance is using her for money.

5. Chance has a wife and 2 kids and only had planned to use her for her money. She got her heart broken again. Don't ever fall in love with any man because they'll just disappoint you and lie.

Questions:

1. Why is Chance always in a situation where he needs money?

2. Why didn't Chance want her to call the police about the robbery?

3. Was Chance really part of any drug dealing?

4. Was Angie the one talking as Chance's mom on the phone?

Vocabulary:

1. Ignited: to cause a strong emotion to arise or show itself in somebody pg. 275

2. Dislodged: to force something or somebody from a previously fixed or secure position, or leave such a position pg. 282

3. Convulsed: to make somebody shake with laughter or a strong emotion pg. 291

Literary Terms:

1. "Just then, out of the corner, like a rat, appeared Blinky." Simile pg. 281-282

2. "... Blam, Blam, Blam.' Royce was dead." Onomatopoeia pg. 296

Overview Sentence:

1. Chance ended up lying to her like every other man. He used her for the money and to try to get a record deal. But overall her project came to be good for those kids.

8th

No Disrespect

By: Sister Souljah

Comments:

1. Just because your born black doesn't mean you have to suffer in life.

2. Her goal is to find an African youth survival camp where kids can go to get away from their horrible living conditions.

3. Love is the most amazing thing in life when two people love each other.

4. Whites are better trained to behave then black people.

5. He likes her because he could be so powerful with her.

Questions:

1. Why did she lie to the boy from the station about her date?

2. How is she going to raise the money?

3. Does she really love Chance?

4. What did he mean by the letter he did for her?

Vocabulary:

1. Earmarked: to select and reserve something to be used for a particular purpose pg. 251

2. Paternalistic ally: a style of government or management, or an approach to personal relationships, in which the desire to help, advise, and protect may neglect individual choice and personal responsibility pg. 257

3. Wretched: feeling very unhappy or ill pg. 261

Literary Terms:

1. " You have some long eye lashes and big beautiful eyes." Direct Characterization pg. 260

2. " He smiled again, knowing that his smile was my weakness." Metaphor pg. 270

Overview Sentence:

1. She met this boy named Chance who she doesn't know if she likes. She goes to meetings in producing her project to help the African kids and become close to them.

7th

No Disrespect

By: Sister Souljah

Comments:

1. That man is like my daddy, every time I feel sad he makes me feel like a princess.

2. Their goal is to close the gaps that exist in their community: young and old and upper, middle, and lower class.

3. She is going to spend a whole year of commission researching the conditions of our people in various parts of the nation.

4. A girl named Tusani who lives in bad conditions became good friends with her.

5. The life Africans are living is bad. Whites shouldn't be racist.

Questions:

1. Will she accept to be part of this challenge?

2. How is she going to accomplish her task?

3. What will happen to Shorty and Tusani?

4. Is their going to be an improvement in the hotel and families?

Vocabulary:

1. Reluctant: feeling or showing no willingness or enthusiasm to do something pg. 230

2. Predicament: a difficult, unpleasant, or embarrassing situation from which there is no clear or easy way out pg. 236

3. Embroidered: to do decorative needlework, or decorate fabric with needlework pg. 242

Literary Terms:

1. "... yellow foam screaming for freedom ... " Personification pg. 243

2. " The train came to a screeching halt and we walked to the Martinique welfare hotel." pg. 246

Overview Sentence:

1. She takes a stand and joins a commission to help her community, to stop Africans to be treating each other wrong and being thought as lower class.

6th

No Disrespect

By: Sister Souljah

Comments:

1. I'll still be friends with a friend of mine who confesses she's a lesbian.

2. No woman should live with an man who abuses her.

3. I would love to visit Africa not just learn about it in history class.

4. I'll be scared if a girl tried to make me do sex with her.

5. In America and other places people do go through daily stresses.

Questions:

1. What does she think about lesbians?

2. Why does she take all those actions towards her sister?

3. Why does she decide to look at Mona naked?

4. How is she going to help the world become a better place for Africans?

Vocabulary:

1. Hindrance: an impeding, stopping, preventing, or the like pg. 206

2. Cynicism: cynical disposition, character, or belief pg. 212

3. Decipher: to make out the meaning of (poor or partially obliterated writing, etc.) pg. 215

Literary Terms:

1. Something like a den or a cave that an animal who had to hibernate would be comfortable in for an entire season. Simile pg. 207-208

2. Making love should be physical, like a dance or a piece of artwork. Simile pg. 218

Overview Sentence:

1. She is going on a big trip to Africa. But she runs into her old friend Mona who confesses she's lesbian. Which leads to the argument of how their people are stressing in this world.

5th

No Disrespect

By: Sister Souljah

Comments:

1. Being in love with a married man is not a good choice.

2. The sensation of having sex makes someone do lots of things.

3. I don't think all African men are the same. In terms of being bad.

4. A family should stay a family and not tear apart.

5. Abortion is not the answer, you can't take away a life.

Questions:

1. Why are they trying to fight for the way people see Africans?

2. Don't they care people know about their relationship?

3. Is he going to leave his family for her?

4. What made her lie saying she's pregnant?

Vocabulary:

1. Fraternities: a group of persons associated by or as if by ties of brotherhood pg. 170

2. Voluptuous: sensuously pleasing or delightful pg. 176

3. Palpable: capable of being touched or felt pg. 190

Literary Terms:

1. "... I was on him like his own skin." Simile pg. 174

2. "... I still felt like a thief in the night creeping around someone else's house." Simile pg. 179

Overview Sentence:

1. She is a sexually in love with a married man. They love their love moments but it ends because everybody and his wife knew.

4th

No Disrespect
By: Sister Souljah

Comments:
1. Having more than one man could bring problems.
2. She loosened up but had dignity not to have sex without love.
3. Men should love girls for who they are not their physical feature.
4. Nikki got raped when she was 12 years old so that made her love sex.
5. Anybody would like to be like her smart and beautiful.

Questions:
1. Why does she want to have sex?
2. How come Brian noticed he should of been with her?
3. Does the expirences of your childhood affect you now being older?
4. Why did Nikki say she wanted to be her?

Vocabulary:
1. Narcotic: anything that exercises a soothing or numbing effect or influence pg. 142
2. Escalate: to raise, lower, rise, or decend on or as if on an escalator pg. 151
3. Epileptic: a person affected by epilepsy pg. 161

Literary Terms:
1. "Their emotions had been dragged around and casually tossed in the gutter, too." Personification pg. 146
2. "She used him like a washing machine." Simile pg. 146

Overview Sentence:
1. She realized sex without love is wrong and acting like yourself is everything you need to impress someone in life.