Comprehension
What makes today special?
It is Rachel's birthday.
A comparison using "LIKE" or "AS"
Simile
Because the way you grow old is like. . .
An onion or like the rings inside a tree trunk or like my little wooden dolls that fit one inside the other, each year inside the next one.
"Only today I wish I didn't have only eleven years __________________________ inside me like pennies in a tin Band-Aid box."
rattling
Why did Rachel start crying in the classroom?
She kept insisting that the ugly red sweater was Rachel's.
A comparison that does NOT use "like" or "as"
Only today I wish I didn't have only eleven years rattling inside me. . .
like pennies in a tin Band-Aid box.
"An ugly sweater like that, all _________________ and old, but Mrs. Price believes her."
raggedy
Why is Rachel upset with Sylvia Saldivar?
Sylvia Saldivar said that the sweater was Rachel's.
Giving non-human objects human qualities
The red sweater's still sitting there like a . ..
big red mountain.
. . . I put one arm through one sleeve of the sweater that smells like cottage cheese. . . all __________________ and full of germs that aren't even mine"
itchy
Why is Rachel upset with Phyllis Lopez?
Phillis Lopez remembered that the ugly red sweater was hers.
Come up with your own simile.
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I've shoved the red sweater to the tippy-tip corner of my desk and it's hanging all over the edge like. . .
a waterfall.
" I wish I was ________________ but I'm not. I’m eleven and it's my birthday today and I'm crying in front of everybody."
invisible
Why does Rachel say that growing old is like an onion?
Because onions have layers inside them like people have ages inside of them.
Come up with your own metaphor.
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I wan today to be far away already, far away like. . .
a runaway balloon .
Use "raggedy" in a sentence
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