Unit 6: Selection Vocabulary 1

I don’t even know why he and Tyrone bother coming to school.

That’s according to Sterling, who believes in praying for everybody and giving them the benefit of the doubt.

My English teacher has got us studying the Harlem Renaissance, which means we have to read a lot of poetry. That suits me just fine, gives me a reason to drag around my beat-up volumes of Langston Hughes and Claude McKay.

The other day, I duck into the library, snare a corner table, and hunker down with 3000 Years of Black Poetry.

I freeze and wait for the snickers I’m used to. Wait for her to say something like: "What? Coach got you reading now? Afraid you’re gonna flunk out and drop off the team?"

I woke up this morning
exhausted from hiding
the me of me
so I stand here confiding
there’s more to Devon
than jump shot and rim.

Why couldn't I be tall and elegant like Diondra, or have Judianne's perfect complexion, all smooth, super-rich fudge?

At just 14 years old, she designed and built a small turbine called BEACON, for Bringing Electricity Access to Countries Through Ocean Energy Collection.

I recognized that her situation was not unique and believed that I could use the skills I acquired to take action in an attempt to mitigate the global energy crisis.

I recognized that her situation was not unique and believed that I could use the skills I acquired to take action in an attempt to mitigate the global energy crisis.

She spent four months researching her idea, she wrote in another blog post, before she designed the turbine as a computer model, and then produced 3D-printed prototypes.

Herbst's calculations show that if she scaled up BEACON, it could charge three car batteries simultaneously in less than an hour.

She suggests the turbine could be used in developing countries to renewably power pumps to desalinate water, run centrifuges that help test blood for diseases, and power electric buoys for maritime navigation.

She suggests the turbine could be used in developing countries to renewably power pumps to desalinate water, run centrifuges that help test blood for diseases, and power electric buoys for maritime navigation.

It is such an amazing opportunity to explore, innovate, and work with a scientist from 3M to develop your prototype.

“While I think the barrier of living on the other side of the world definitely posed a challenge to being able to talk as often as we would have liked, my grandfather was close to both my brother and me," Shree says.

She wanted to play a role in relieving people’s pain.

“I got rejected by a lot of professors before I found one person who was willing to take me on,” she says.

Under Dr. Basu’s supervision Shree started research on counteracting resistance to the chemotherapy drug cisplatin, which is given to women with ovarian cancer.

She also discovered a unique platform to share her research in 2011, the first year of the Google Science Fair.

Participants demonstrate their projects on websites they make themselves.

You are there by no desert or merit of yours, but only by lucky chance.

You are there by no desert or merit of yours, but only by lucky chance.

People will wonder at your dear brown and the sweet crinkley hair.

The main thing is the YOU beneath the clothes and skin—the ability to do, the will to conquer, the determination to understand and know this great, wonderful, curious world.

Enjoy what is and not pine for what is not.

Read some good, heavy, serious books just for discipline: Take yourself in hand and master yourself.