PROJECT

LESSON 2 Ups and downs

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A day in the life of Auggie Textbook p. 64

“So, it went OK?”

A new day of school is over.
Auggie just said goodbye to his friend
Summer. Now, he meets his mother
who is picking him up.

1 “So it went okay?” said Mom. I could tell

she had a million questions she wanted
to ask me. “Everyone was nice? Did
you like your teachers?”
5 “Yeah.”
“How about those kids you met last week? Were they nice?”
“Fine, fine. Jack hung out with me a lot.”
“That’s so great, sweetie. What about that boy Julian?”
I thought about that Darth Sidious comment1. By now it felt like that
10 happened a hundred years ago.
“He was okay,” I said.
“And the blond girl, what was her name?”
“Charlotte. Mom, I said everyone was nice already.”
“Okay,” Mom answered.
15 I honestly don’t know why I was kind of mad at Mom2, but I was. We
crossed Amesfort Avenue, and she didn’t say anything else until we
turned onto our block.
“So,” Mom said. “How did you meet Summer if she wasn’t in any of
your classes?”
20 “We sat together at lunch,” I said. I had started kicking a rock between my
feet like it was a soccer ball, chasing it back and forth across the sidewalk.
“She seems very nice.”
“Yeah, she is.”
“She’s very pretty,” Mom said.
25 “Yeah, I know,” I answered. “We’re kind of like Beauty and the Beast.”
Wonder, R.J. Palacio, 2012

1. Darth Sidious comment: commentaire dans lequel Julian comparait

August à un personnage effrayant du film Star Wars
2. “j’étais un peu en colère contre maman”

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