October 30, 1895 Dear Diary, For so long I have wondered what it is I should be doing with my life. I am not inclined toward homemaking, nor do I enjoy the constant pursuit of cultural enrichment as is prevalent for so many women of my standing in America. However, I am happy to report that I have heard my calling! Inspired by the movement that began in the 1870s, I am going to work toward social justice in our embattled urban environments. As woman, I seek to emulate the inestimable Jane Addams, whose success instills in me the confidence that I, too, can help better the lives of . In addition to providing a public service, this course may lead to greater political involvement. Why, I may make something of myself yet!

Read the excerpt from "mother tongue." those tests were constructed around items like fill-in-the-blank sentence completion, such as “even though tom was mary thought he was ” and the correct answer always seemed to be the most bland combinations of thoughts, for example, “even though tom was foolish, mary thought he was ridiculous.” well, according to my mother, there were very few limitations as to what tom could have been and what mary might have thought of him. so i never did well on tests like that. how does tan build a central idea of her story in the excerpt? tan discusses the types of questions on achievement tests to support the idea that the tests limit students’ ability to write well. tan explains a question on a language achievement test to support the idea that the tests should include more interesting content. tan gives an example of her experience with achievement tests to support the idea that they are not always accurate measures of language ability. tan considers how her mother might answer a question on a test to support the idea that nonstandard english limits a person’s ability to communicate.