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When Michelle starts school, she is eager to succeed, and her mother is strongly supportive. After Michelle complains about her boring, unruly second-grade ...
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As First Lady, Michelle must be engaged and productive without overstepping her bounds. Her early work focuses on childhood obesity, through the Let's Move!
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Becoming Summary Chapters 3-5: Coming of Age (1970s). These chapters focus on Michelle and her brother Craig as they begin to grow into adulthood, learn about ...
When Barack successfully becomes president, Michelle realizes that she will have to figure out how to navigate her role as First Lady under the harsh scrutiny ...
In this chapter, Obama reveals the levels of racial segregation and disparities between the Chicago's downtown and its south side and describes how she ...
When both children were teenagers, the apartment was renovated to create a bedroom for Craig, Michelle moved into her parents' room, and they took the space ...
Jun 14, 2019 · At home, Michelle continues to work at piano. She acknowledges that she is “no less fumbling” but that she is more driven than other students.
The autobiography follows a largely chronological telling of Obama's life. She begins with her childhood and young adult years, a section she titles “Becoming ...
Jul 12, 2021 · It is a tour de force; an intimate look into the process of how a black woman growing up middle-class in the Southside of Chicago becomes an Ivy ...
Becoming provides insights into Michelle's self-determination: She pushed herself to excel in Ivy League classrooms and achieve a prestigious career by age 26, ...