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Hello everyone!

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I am your English reading coach, Minhee Teacher.

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Welcome back to our reading journey through the wonderful book, Wonder.

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Today, we are diving into Part Two, which is titled Via's Galaxy.

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Up until now, we only saw the world through Auggie's eyes.

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But today, we are changing our camera lens.

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We are looking through the eyes of his older sister, Via.

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Let's look at this part of the book like a movie director planning three quick scenes.

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In Scene One, the camera shows young Via and Auggie playing at home.

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To Via, Auggie is just her cute little brother.

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His face is just his face, and she does not think it is strange at all.

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In Scene Two, the camera pans out.

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We see strangers staring at Auggie on the street, gasping in shock.

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Suddenly, Via sees her brother through the eyes of those strangers, and it hurts her deeply.

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In Scene Three, the camera follows Via to her first day of high school.

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She is sitting alone, realizing her old friends are changing and drifting away.

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She loves her brother, but she secretly wishes she could just be Via, not always the sister of the boy with the different face.

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Let's zoom in on a very important line Via says.

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She says, I never used to see August the way other people saw him.

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To understand this, imagine you have a favorite, old, cozy teddy bear.

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It has a missing button eye and a ripped ear.

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To you, that bear is perfect because you love it.

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You do not even notice the missing eye.

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But one day, a friend comes over and says, oh, what a scary, broken bear!

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Suddenly, you look at your bear and think, oh, does it look scary to others?

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That is exactly how Via feels.

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For years, Auggie was just her sweet brother.

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But as she gets older, she notices the shocked faces of strangers.

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She realizes her family's normal is not the world's normal.

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She feels a mix of deep love, fierce protection, and a little bit of sadness.

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Why does Via feel this way?

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Let's explain this simply.

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Think of Via's family like a solar system.

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Auggie is the sun in the center because he has big medical needs.

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The parents and Via orbit around him like planets.

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This is their family galaxy.

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But planets need their own space too.

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Via loves her brother, but orbiting the sun all the time can get hot and tiring.

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She wants to have her own orbit, her own dreams, and her own friends.

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Loving someone does not mean you have to disappear.

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It is okay to want your own space.

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Via is not being selfish; she is just growing up.

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Let's look at some useful words from Via's world that we can use in our own lives.

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Our first word is galaxy.

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A galaxy is a huge group of stars.

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In this book, it is a metaphor for a family world where everyone circles around one main person.

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You can say, our family is like our own little galaxy.

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Our second word is protect.

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To protect means to keep someone safe from harm.

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It is like holding an umbrella over a friend to protect them from the rain.

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Big sisters often try to protect their little brothers.

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Our third word is burden.

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A burden is something very heavy to carry, either physically or emotionally.

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For example, carrying a huge backpack up a hill is a physical burden.

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Loving someone can sometimes feel like a burden when you have to worry about them all the time.

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Our fourth word is apparition.

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This is a big, dramatic word!

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It means something that appears suddenly, like a ghost.

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To shocked strangers who are not used to seeing him, Auggie sometimes looks like an apparition.

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Our fifth phrase is drift away.

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This means to slowly stop being close to someone, like two boats floating apart on water.

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When you go to a new school, old friends can sometimes drift away.

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Now, let's practice speaking.

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I will say a sentence, and I want you to repeat it right after me with real feeling.

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Let's start.

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I never saw him the way other people saw him.

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It is hard to protect someone you love all the time.

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I want to be seen as just me, not only as someone's sister.

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Our family is like our own little galaxy.

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Loving someone does not mean you forget about yourself.

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Wonderful job!

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Your English sounds so natural when you put real emotion into the characters' words.

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Before we finish today, here is an open question for you to think about.

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Can you love someone very much and still feel tired of their problems sometimes?

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How do you balance caring for your family with chasing your own dreams?

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Think about this, and next time you open your book, try to look at the world through Via's eyes.

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You did amazing today.

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See you next time!