Vocabulary
What does the sandwich taste like? • What reaction do you think Sofia made? • How does Sofia feel about sandwiches after this taste?
Sofia thinks that the sandwich tastes awful. She makes a face that shows that she dislikes the sandwich.
What is an example of Coach Clarke's caring behavior?
She helped Sofia clean up the mess from the spilled tacos.
Fiction
The words dreaded, stupid, and nightmare have a negative connotation.
True
How do the students feel about Coach Clarke? Is it positive or negative? • What reason might they have for being near her during lunch?
Coach Clarke is popular with the students. The students want to eat with her during lunch, but Coach Clarke saves a seat for Sofia.
What is an example of how language contributes to the meaning of the story?
When Sofia felt ill and that the kids were all staring at her in the cafeteria.
What is the plot of the Tequila Worm?
A fictionalized memoir of growing up in the warm embrace of the Mexican American barrio of McAllen, Texas.
The denotation is “too shocked to react,” and the connotation is positive.
False, the meaning is correct but the connotation is negative.
What were Coach Clarke and Sofia talking about during lunch?
Sports and soccer
Why was Sofia being bullied by her upper classmen? What was she being called?
1. Sofia only brought two bean tacos as her lunch everyday for school.
2. Taco Head
What is the theme of the "Taco Head"?
The positive side of our culture—the family, the spirituality, the food, and the music.
What confusion occurs when Coach Clarke recommends to Sofia that she learn “to kick with her head”?
She didn't understand that Coach Clarke meant to use her brain instead.
What does that tell me about the meaning of the word hesitated?
To pause before doing something
How does Sofia feel when she is called "Taco Head"?
She is embarrassed and does not want to eat in the cafeteria.
Identify evidence from The Tequila Worm that reveals a theme of the text. Cite textual evidence to support your answer.
Based on Coach Clarke’s advice, Sofia decides to work hard and be proud of who she is by studying harder and eating her tacos proudly. This develops a theme of being true to yourself regardless of the opinions of others.
What did Coach Clarke say to Sofia about "kicking that girl"?
That eating her tacos in the cafeteria would be "kicking that girl."
“I told Coach Clarke about Clara and how she told me that I had inherited my great-great-grandmother’s gift for kicking like a mule.” • Who does Sofia get her soccer skills from? What does that tell me about the meaning of the word inherited?
Inherit as used in the text means “when a received trait from a relative or ancestor.”
How does Coach Clarke show that tacos for lunch are okay?
Coach Clarke wants to trade lunches with Sofia.
Who is the Author of the Tequila Worm?
Viola Canales.
What did the other Mexican-American kids do after Sofia started eating her lunch in the open?
They began to eat their lunch out in the open.