Vocab
Silly behavior
What is nonsense?
Your sample sentences must contain these three things.
What are capitalization, punctuation, and the vocab word?
"Because the way you grow old is kind of 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. That’s how being eleven years old is." Indicates what about about Rachel?
She believes people are a product of all their past ages.
Rachel believes older people have this ability younger people don't.
The ability to handle tough situations
A narrow street or area located between two buildings
What is an alley?
True or False: Your sample sentence should be the definition of the word.
False
How can the story be summarized?
An experience at school causes a girl to feel unsure of herself, leading her to consider what it means to be one year older.
This character is frustrated no one will claim the sweater.
Mrs. Price
What is invisible?
True or False: This is a proper sample sentence: The alley is over there.
False
What does this passage mainly reveal about the narrator?
“I don’t know why but all of a sudden I’m feeling sick inside, like the part of me that’s three wants to come out of my eyes, only I squeeze them shut tight and bite down on my teeth real hard and try to remember today I am eleven, eleven.”
She wants to cry but believes she should be old enough not to.
This character doesn't like Rachel for some reason.
Sylvia
A very small living thing that causes sickness
What are germs?
True or False: This is a proper sample sentence: To avoid getting sick from germs, he washed his hands after playing outside.
True
This passage reveals what about the narrator's feelings?
I’m eleven today. I’m eleven, ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, and one, but I wish I was one hundred and two. I wish I was anything but eleven, because I want today to be far away already, far away like a runaway balloon, like a tiny o in the sky, so tiny-tiny you have to close your eyes to see it.
She feels shame aka embarrassment
The sweater actually belongs to this person
Phyllis Lopez
In shabby condition
What is raggedy?
How does Rachel feel about the red sweater?
She doesn't like it and wants to throw it away.
Embarrassed in front of the class
Rachel