Vocab, ya heard?
Translate to the Spanish vocabulary term:
The Weeping Woman
La Llorona
Butterflies in spanish
What is Mariposas?
What do the girls find floating in the river in chapter one?
A dead body
"The sun smiled down on us." What kind of figurative language is this?
personification
When Odilia goes to get a newspaper for Ines, what does it say on the front page?
The girls are MISSING.
When a girl turns 15 you throw her a party to celebrate her becoming a women
What is a Quincineria?
The card game played by the Garza family
What is Loteria?
Where does Mama work?
A cafe or restaurant
What kind of figurative language is this: “The girls' laughter cracked like glass."
Simile
What scares the girls so much in chapter six that they jump from the car? `
To retell a story in your own words
summarize
In chapter 8, at Cecilia's house, the sisters learn that the news is reporting that they disappeared because.... look at pgs. 136-137
They learn that authorities believe that they were abducted by the same people who killed Gabriel Perdido, that they're manipulating the girls as they return his body to his family.
What does Velia compare being famous to in chapter five?
Flan
What the author of an informational text wants you to learn about a topic is called...
Central idea
Who was Gabriel Perdido, the drowned man, when he was alive?
A drug dealer and fugitive
An idea or conclusion that's drawn from evidence (what you read) and reasoning (what you know already). Can also be referred to as an educated guess
Inference
What is the name of the shape shifting jaguars that attack the Garza Sisters?
What is Nagual?
How does Odilia "hypnotize" people?
By spinning La Llorona's earring.
When you have to figure out things in the story and it isn't directly told to you, this is an example of :
Inferencing or implicit
Who is Beatriz?
The dead man's daughter
Being able to know how someone else is feeling, even when you aren't in the same situation. Sometimes we refer to it as being able to "put yourself in someone's shoes" and see things from their view.
Empathy
Mother goddess of Aztecs who shows upafter they sing in the nagual's cave
Who is Tonantzin?
Who is Cecilia?
The witch who tempts the girls with sweet breads and treats
False
When the girls stop at the convenience store, how many sodas does Juanita order? Odilia tells her to say a different amount of sodas. How many did Odilia tell her to buy? Why is the number of sodas they buy important?
Juanita orders 5. Then orders 6. They are trying to pretend the dead man is their papa and make him seem "alive."