A Regular Revolution
Her parents owned Hoover Vacuum Cleaner company.
Who was the Hoover girl
Laura.
What is the mother's first name?
They did a celebration at dinner and the mother made a flan.
What did the Garcias do each year to celebrate coming to America?
A small apartment.
Where did the Garcias live when they first arrived in New York?
A person, place or thing.
What is a noun?
They thought they were related to a dictator.
What the American girls at boarding school thought of the Garcia girls.
Inventing things
What was the mother always doing in her spare time in America?
It was celebrating the day they lost everything.
What did Carla think of the yearly celebration of coming to America?
The Sisters of Charity.
Who taught at the Catholic school that the girls first attended in New York?
Modifies a verb, adjective or adverb
What is an adverb?
To marry Dominican boys.
What was the hidden agenda behind the four girls spending summers in the Dominican Republic?
She told them she would have to talk purchases over with her husband.
When the mother was confronted by a salesclerk in a store, how did she put them off?
She should stay back a year and repeat grade six.
What did the nun at school suggest about Carla's schooling?
Dolls in mourning.
What the girls thought of the nun's habits?
Modifies a noun
What is an adjective?
Found the stash of marijuana.
Who s the maid Primitiva.
Thomas Edison Mami, Benjamin Franklin Mom.
What are the names the girls called their mother to make fun of her leisure activity?
By heart.
What is the expression Carla so taken with that she used it over and over?
She was the only immigrant and the teacher needed to tutor her without disturbing the other students.
Why Yolanda was seated differently than the other children in her 4th grade class?
A word or group of words used before a noun, pronoun, or noun phrase to show direction, time, place, location, spatial relationships, or to introduce an object
What is a preposition?
Manual Gustavo's relation to the girls.
What is a cousin?
He is a doctor at Centro de Medicina in the Bronx.
What does the father finally end up doing in New York that gives him professional success?
She returned to the public school close to home.
What is Carla returned to public school near her home?
Fallout from an atomic bomb.
What did Yolanda think snow was when she first saw it?
A way to visualize how the different parts of a sentence fit together.
What is diagraming a sentence?