Vocabulary
Optional academic course or subject
Elective
Main character of the story "7th grade"
Victor
Victor starts 7th grade and wants to date Teresa
Exposition
What is the setting of this story?
Fresno, California, in the present
Gary Soto says he gets most of his ideas from where?
Memories of his childhood
To look angry by drawing the eyebrows together and frowning
Scowl
Victor's best friend
Michael Torres
Teresa says, "Hi, Victor." Victor says, "Yeah, that's me!"
Rising Action
What is the conflict of this story?
Victor wants to date Teresa
Gary Soto grew up in which cultural community in Fresno, California?
Mexican-American
Extreme fierceness: intensity
Ferocity
The girl Victor has a crush on
Teresa
Mr. Lucas asks for a noun. Victor says, "Teresa."
Rising Action
Why does Mr. Bueller keep Victor's secret?
He remembers what it was like to impress a girl
When he was growing up, Gary Soto wanted to be a priest, a hobo or a what?
Paleontologist (scientist who studies fossils)
A strong belief; assuredness
Conviction
Victor's French teacher
Mr. Bueller
Victor pretends to know French
Climax
Michael thinks girls like it when guys do what?
Scowl
In college, Gary Soto studied geology until he discovered what kind of writing?
Poetry
To mislead or decieve
Bluff
Victor's English teacher
Mr. Lucas
Mr. Bueller doesn't snitch on Victor. Teresa asks Victor to help with her French.
Resolution
Both Victor and Michael have to do what in the summer to afford school clothes?
Work picking grapes
Gary Soto won the American Book Award for writing what book?
Living Up the Street