One Crazy Summer
Eleven by Cisneros
Vocabulary Words
Noun, Adjectives and Verbs
Costa's Questions
100
Delphine
Who is the narrator in One Crazy Summer?
100
Mrs. Price
Who's the antagonist in this short story?
100
A bloody battle between two people.
What is a clash?
100
A person, place, or thing.
What is a noun?
100
Identify, recall, list, describe.
What do level one questions ask you to do?
200
Oakland
Where does Cecile live?
200
102
What age does Rachel wish she were?
200
An imperfection
What is a flaw?
200
A word that describes a noun.
What is an adjective?
200
Three
How many levels of Costa's questions are there?
300
Cassius Clay
What does Big Ma insist on calling Muhammad Ali?
300
Rachel cries when Mrs. Price makes her put on the red sweater.
What happens in this story's climax?
300
Having mixed feelings about something.
What is the definition of ambivalent?
300
An action word.
What is a verb?
300
Compare and contrast, infer, analyze
What do level II questions ask you to do?
400
Delphine gives up the window seat to her sisters even though she wanted it.
What is the best evidence to show us that Delphine is selfless?
400
Sylvia Saldivar
What is the name of the girl in Rachel's class who hates her?
400
Animal testing.
What is something that is cruel?
400
Predict what would happen if Big Ma went with the girls to Oakland.
What is an example of a level 3 question?
500
Zilla
What name does the cab driver at the airport call Cecile?
500
Onion
What does Rachel compare growing old to?
500
A sight you cannot tear your eyes away from.
What is a spectacle?
500
What the text says + what I know = what I infer
What is the inference equation?
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