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The Big Move
"Maya and her family have come to the united states from kazakhstan, a country in the Central Asia that used to be part of the Soviet Union"(Okimoto 1). They came to the U.S.A. through the international dating magzine. Her whole family did not get to the U.S.A. through the magazine just her aunt. Maya's aunt put herself in the intertnational dating magazine and a man saw her in the magazine and he wanted her to come to America. -
Spring Fling Handout
Marcia Egness is the most popular girl in school. She is handing out permission slips for the spring fling. she thought that she shouldn't get one because her mom and dad would not let her go. She got one just to see what her parents would say. She showed her parents and asked if she could and her parents said you should not have dances after school when you are suppose to be doing homework. So her family said that she could not go. -
The Fight
Nurzhan and a boy who had been teezing nurzhan got in a fight. " Maya, you're wanted in the office, Ms.Coe said. You can go now with Mr. Walsh"(okimoto 4). So Maya went to the office with Mr. Walsh. Mr. Walsh told her that her brother got in a fight with a boy. So Maya had to call her papa and her papa had to come to school to talk to the student councelor Mr. Johnson. Maya translated all of it back into the language that her papa spoke. -
Maya's fake translation
