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From the Ted Talk by Deb Willis and Hank Willis Thomas: A mother and son united by love and art

Unscramble the Blue Letters

DW: Yeah, that year I graduated, I got pregnant. Yep, he was right. And I had you, and I shook off that sexist lgguanae that he used against me and picked up my camera and made photographs dlaiy, and made photographs of my pregnant blely as I prepared for graduate school. But I thought about also that balck photographers were missing from the history books of photography, and I was looking for ways to tell a story. And I ran across Gordon Parks' book "A Choice of Weapons," which was his autobiography. I began photographing and making images, and I tucked away that ctnaoct sheet that I made of my pnengrat belly, and then you inspired me to caetre a new piece, a piece that said, "A woman taking a pacle from a good man," "You took the space from a good man," and then I used that language and reesevrd it and said, "I made a space for a good man, you."

Open Cloze

DW: Yeah, that year I graduated, I got pregnant. Yep, he was right. And I had you, and I shook off that sexist ________ that he used against me and picked up my camera and made photographs _____, and made photographs of my pregnant _____ as I prepared for graduate school. But I thought about also that _____ photographers were missing from the history books of photography, and I was looking for ways to tell a story. And I ran across Gordon Parks' book "A Choice of Weapons," which was his autobiography. I began photographing and making images, and I tucked away that _______ sheet that I made of my ________ belly, and then you inspired me to ______ a new piece, a piece that said, "A woman taking a _____ from a good man," "You took the space from a good man," and then I used that language and ________ it and said, "I made a space for a good man, you."

Solution

  1. black
  2. create
  3. contact
  4. belly
  5. pregnant
  6. daily
  7. language
  8. reversed
  9. place

Original Text

DW: Yeah, that year I graduated, I got pregnant. Yep, he was right. And I had you, and I shook off that sexist language that he used against me and picked up my camera and made photographs daily, and made photographs of my pregnant belly as I prepared for graduate school. But I thought about also that black photographers were missing from the history books of photography, and I was looking for ways to tell a story. And I ran across Gordon Parks' book "A Choice of Weapons," which was his autobiography. I began photographing and making images, and I tucked away that contact sheet that I made of my pregnant belly, and then you inspired me to create a new piece, a piece that said, "A woman taking a place from a good man," "You took the space from a good man," and then I used that language and reversed it and said, "I made a space for a good man, you."

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations

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Important Words

  1. autobiography
  2. began
  3. belly
  4. black
  5. book
  6. books
  7. camera
  8. choice
  9. contact
  10. create
  11. daily
  12. good
  13. gordon
  14. graduate
  15. graduated
  16. history
  17. images
  18. inspired
  19. language
  20. making
  21. man
  22. missing
  23. photographers
  24. photographing
  25. photographs
  26. photography
  27. picked
  28. piece
  29. place
  30. pregnant
  31. prepared
  32. ran
  33. reversed
  34. school
  35. sexist
  36. sheet
  37. shook
  38. space
  39. story
  40. thought
  41. tucked
  42. ways
  43. weapons
  44. woman
  45. yeah
  46. year
  47. yep