Eleven
Rachel compares growing up to...
What is the rings inside a tree trunk?
Rachel puts on the sweater because...
What is her teacher made her?
Mr Lacey lets the dog stay because...
What is bad weather prevents him from driving the dog to the pound?
Mr. Lacey didn't leave the dog because...
What is the pound was a terrible place?
Why wasn’t Doris at school?
What is school was canceled due to snow?
Why is that day special for Rachel?
What is, it is Rachel's birthday?
This person tells Ms. Price that the sweater belongs to Rachel...
Who is Sylvia Saldivar?
Doris doesn't name the dog because...
What is She doesn’t want to get attached to it?
Doris loves the dog because...
What is the dog is well behaved?
Read the following:
"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."
This is an example of...
What is a simile?
How does Rachel describe the sweater?
What is smelly, itchy, full of germs, raggedy, and old?
This is the person who the sweater really belongs to...
Who is Phyllis Lopez?
The protagonist in the story is...
Who is Doris?
Why can't the Laceys keep the dog?
What is they cannot afford the dog?
What effect do sensory details and figurative language have on the story?
What is they help the reader understand Rachel's feelings?
How does Rachel feel about turning 11?
What is, that it is the same feeling as being 10?
Finish this line
I’m eleven today. I’m eleven, ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, and one, but I wish I was _________
What is one hundred and two?
What did Mrs. Lacey say to Doris after Mr. Lacey opened the trunk of his car?
What is “You try to act more grown-up about this.”
Read the sentence.
He agreed to let it sleep in the basement while Mrs. Lacey grudgingly let Doris feed it scraps.
What does grudgingly mean in this sentence?
What is hesitantly?
When Doris found the puppy, it was….
What is shivering?
Read:
“Now, Rachel, that’s enough,” because she sees 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, but I don’t care.
The figurative language used in this sentence is...
What is a simile?
Fill in the blank:
I take it off right away and give it to her, only ________ pretends like everything’s okay.
Who is Ms. Price?
Which sentence best describes the plot of the story?
What is Doris wanted to keep the abandoned puppy she found, but her parents would not allow it?
What was the first sign in the story that Mr. Lacey is sensitive to the dog’s feelings?
What is Mr. Lacey allowed the dog to sleep in the basement?
Doris guessed that the puppy had some ______________________ in it.
What is some shepherd?