Read "They Told Us Not To Say This" by Jenn Alandy Trahan

Answer the following questions:

 

• How are the girls treated by their families? Why?
• Why is Brent Zalesky important to the girls?
• Why do the girls eventually embrace basketball themselves? Why basketball?
• How can you look at Jocelyn Enriquez as a symbol? What does she represent to the girls?
• What does the story say about gender? Race? Class? Power?
• Why do you think Alandy Trahan mixes the present and the future in the ending?
• Why do you think Alandy Trahan set her story in high school?
• What do you make of the title?