ABSTRACT
JAMISHA, 18, African-American, hip, outgoing, take-no-nonsense kind of girl
RUBEN, 17, Latino, popular, energetic, joker, party animal
RUSSELL, 17, African-American, intellectual, politicized, fearless
CASSANDRA, 17, Latina, sensitive, thoughtful, well read, unsure of herself
MARIO, 18, Latino, ex-gangbanger, low-rider style
I. ETYMOLOGY
(Classroom. ISAAC and four students: CASSANDRA, JAMISHA, RUSSELL, and RUBEN. JAMISHA standing at a flip chart holding a dictionary and a marker.)
ISAAC: Okay, Jamisha, remind us what the assignment is. JAMISHA: We are supposed to choose any two pages in this dic-
tionary and identify the percentage of the words that come from Latin.
