What made me the way I

am?
What do these words mean?
1. to reflect A. something available as another possibility
2. rebellious of choice.
3. enterprise B. showing or feeling opposition or dislike; or
4. start up unfriendly.
5. reject C. Ideas, attitudes or activities that are
6. mainstream shared by most people and regarded as
7. alternative normal.
8. conventional D. to show, express or be sign of something
9. hostile E. project, start-up company.
10. minority groups F. to refuse to agree to something
G. based in accordance with what is
generally done or believed.
H. small group of people within a community
or country, differing from the main
population.
Conventional
Conventional or alternative?
Put the paragraphs’ sentences in order
- Who is writing the text? Who did the author
want to read this text?
- What is the author saying? Why is she
saying this?
QUESTION 1

How has the past of her parents

affected Summer’s career choice?
QUESTION 2

What made people reject mainstream

lifestyles?
QUESTION 3

How did Summer’s parents meet?

QUESTION 4

What’s the meaning of the author’s

name?
QUESTION 5

Why didn’t she have a conventional

way of life?
QUESTION 6

What did Summer experience that

made her increase her interest on the
ways minorities are treated?
QUESTION 7

What has been subject in all her films?

Why?
Choose the correct answer:
1. The writer’s purpose is to:
a. explain how her parents met
b. reflect how her family’s history influenced her choice of a career
c. show how her parents choices influenced her culture
2. The writer id criticizing:
a. the lack of freedom of minority groups
b. the hostility to minority groups in certain places
c. the conventional way of life