Vocabulary 1
What vocabulary word means 'people in your family'?
Relatives
What word means 'to want something badly'?
Yearning
In the poem 'When We Left El Salvador', name two things that our narrator did not get to say goodbye to.
In the poem 'Yo-Yo', what insect was crawling around on the pages?
Ants
What is the theme of our story?
What vocabulary word means 'something that happens among two groups of people living within one country'?
Civil
What vocabulary word means 'someone who is lucky'?
Fortunate
There was a poem about not having enough to eat some nights. The poem was called '____ of Stars'. Tell me the blank.
Soup
In the poem 'Bicycle", what animal was on top of the bicylce?
Dragon
How many poems are there in total?
15
What vocabulary word means 'when you give your work to someone'?
Dedicate
What vocabulary word means 'growing and successful'?
Flourishing
What makes our narrator mad? There is something that beats him in every race.
Suitcase
Where is our narrator from?
El Salvador
What vocabulary word means 'an affectionate term for mi abuelita (my grandmother)'?
Mita
What word means 'an object that is thrown away'?
Discarded
In the poem 'Voice from Home' our narrator's uncle leaves a voicemail. What is the narrator's uncle's name?
Alfredo
In the poem ' Family Nest', how many people were in the bird's nest in the tree?
5
Where did the narrator move to?
San Francisco, California
What word means 'an indigenous language spoken in parts of Mexico and El Salvador'?
Nahuatl
What does 'mi jo' mean?
My son
Parakeets
In the first poem, Wonders of the City', our narrator is dreaming. He is talking about the wonders of the new place he is going to live. What animal is shown in this poem?
Chicken
What does our narrator jump on when he is in his papa's truck?
Boxes