ML Review Parts 1-2

How do LaVaughn and Jolly meet?

• LaVaughn calls Jolly about a babysiting job

• LaVaughn and Jolly are friends from school.

• LaVaughn and Jolly's parents work together

• They bump into each other at the coffee shop

Why does LaVaughn take ths job with Jolly?

• To earn money for a new car

• To earn money for college

• To earn money to go to a concert

• To earn money for new clothes

When she loses her job, why does Jolly resist getting on welfare?

• She is confident she will find another job soon

• She is afraid her kids will be taken away from her

• She doesn't want to admit she needs help

• She plans on going back to school

Why does LaVaughn keep babysitting Jilly and Jeremy even though Jolly is not paying her?

• Her mother has told her she has to keep going

• She is getting high school credits by helping Jolly

• She loves the kids and wants to help Jolly

• She can't find another job

Where did Jolly live before she found her apartment?

• A cardboard box

• A shelter for women and children

• With Jeremey's father across town

• In her car

After Jolly, Jilly, and Jeremy go to school with LaVaughn, how does LaVaughn feel about them?

• She realizes they are in trouble financially

• She is embarassed by them

• She is scared she will lose her job if Jolly goes back to school

• She feels they have become family

Why is Jolly confused when LaVaughn asks her mother for permission to do certain things?

• LaVaughn is a teen and can make her own decisions

• LaVaughn's mom is stirct and usually says no

• Jolly grew up alone and only had herself to rely on

• Jolly feels like a mother figure to LaVaughn now

What do the lemon seeds represent?

• Hope

• Failure

• Confusion

• Nothing- they are just seeds

What does LaVaughn do to try and get Jolly to go back to school?

• She shows Jolly her classwork to let her know it isn't that complicated

• She gets her mom to call the school and enroll Jolly

• She calls the school herself and sets up an appointment for Jolly

• She takes Jolly to a football game to show her how fun school can be

How do we know that Jolly is serious about gong back to school and creating a better life for her and her children?

• She completes the application to enroll

• She quits her job to enroll

• She calls LaVaughn every night to discuss going back

• She tells her children she is going to go back and she never lies to them