5.Meanwhile, Jade and her mother get into a fight because Hualin disapproves of the crop top Jade is wearing. After Jade leaves for school in a huff, Hualin goes into Jade's room to put away laundry and ends up snooping through her stuff. She discovers Jade's diary and discovers a permission slip for a choir trip, signed by Jade's father, Chris . Summer, Sara and Reid meet to work as a group on their heritage project. Reid and Sara get into an argument over what the exactly project will be.
Summer has very little to say.
She doesn't know much about her family's heritage. When pressed by Sara to come up with someone in the family to interview, she remembers Ethel. After school, Summer goes to visit her Great Grandma Ethel and discovers, through photos, that her great grandmother was a modern woman of her day. Ethel tells of leaving the family farm as a young woman and moving to the city to find work as a secretary, getting married and leaving her husband after the stock market crashed and he became an alcoholic. Summer is fascinated by Ethel.