Wild Card/Misc
This is a popular TV show starring a character with the same name as the title of this short story.
What is "Stranger Things"?
This is the narrator and main character of the short story.
Who is Rachel?
This is the full definition of a simile.
What is comparing two unlike things using like/as/as though?
"...the sweater that smells like cottage cheese" is an example of this sense.
What is smell?
This is the part of speech that Ms. Manson thinks is most difficult for students to understand.
What is an adverb?
The is the first and last name of the author of "Eleven"
Who is Sandra Cisneros?
This is what the main character says about grown ups like her mama when it comes to crying.
What is it's OK for them to cry, if they're "feeling three"?
These TWO figurative language devices are used in "the sweater smells like cottage cheese"?
What is a sensory detail (smell) and a simile?
"...the sweater hurts me...all itchy and full of germs that aren't even mine" is an example of this sense.
What is touch (feeling)?
This is one way/tone that students should not use when writing an email to their teacher
What is overly emotional, dramatic, or the use of the pronoun "you"?
This is the Point of View (POV) in which this story was written.
What is first-person POV?
This is the first and last name (not Mrs. Price) of another student that Rachel dislikes. Double Bonus Points for both of their names!
Who is Sylvia Saldivar and/or Phyllis Lopez?
These TWO senses are being appealed to with "Mama is making a cake for me" and "they will sing Happy Birthday, Happy Birthday to you."
What is a sense of taste and sound?
"There's a cake Mama's making for tonight, and when Papa comes home from work we'll eat it" is an example of this sense.
What is taste?
This is BOTH the word for describing your images in the BAM project and this " " punctuation that must include a page number from your book.
What are the captions and quotes?
This is one other book that was written by the author.
Double points if you know both of them!
What is Esperanza Rising and House on Mango Street?
The event that upsets Rachel so much in class and makes her feel negatively about her birthday
What is "the teacher forces her to wear an old sweater that's not hers"?
This is a general quote from "Eleven" that demonstrates a hyperbole.
Bonus points: provide two different ones
What is "Today I wish I was one hundred and two instead of eleven" and "It's [the sweater] maybe a thousand years old.'
"It's an ugly sweater with red plastic buttons and a collar and sleeves all stretched out like you could use it for a jump rope" is an example of this sense.
What is sight (seeing)?
These are ALL FIVE (excluding the cover) of the pages to be included in your BAM project due 10/9 (in any particular order).
What are the plot, setting, main character, theme, and choice?
This is the reason why the author wrote this short story.
What is being "broke"?
The worst part of Rachel's day is (hint: something that Mrs. Price does AFTER she makes Rachel put on the sweater.
What is "when Mrs. Price pretends like everything is okay"?
This is a comparison NOT using like/as/as though and calling something by another name and the ONLY metaphor in "Eleven".
What is a metaphor and a "clown-sweater arms"?
"'Now!'" Mrs. Price says" is an example of this sense.
What is hearing?