Tuesday, October 21, 2008

4th entry on When i was Puerto rican

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-Esmeralda had to help her grandmother for a week
-She went to church while she stayed with her grandmother.
- Her grandmother and grandfather didnt sleep in the same bed
-Esmeralda found out that her dad only took her to her grandmothers house because he needs to see someone else (a women)
- He forgot to pick her up a week later
4 questions
-Why did the gray women talk to Esmeralda as if she knew her?
- Esmeralda turned out like her dad because they both were good at memorizeing poetry
-Did she enjoy learnin how to crochet?
-Why wasnt she religions?
3 vocabulary
syncopated- to place (the accents) on beats that are normally unaccented.
plumage-the entire feathery covering of a bird.
opulent-wealthy, rich, or affluent
2 literary terms
'her pamls the color and texture of an avocado pit' metaphor
'he shouted at her and waved the greasy rag the way Don Berto used to wave his sharp machete' metaphor
1 overview sentence
This chapter was about when Esmeralda went to visit her grandmother.

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