And then THIS thing:
Revisit one section in the story you tagged with a sticky note or where you had a question. Write a statement or question about that section in the story.
"The woman’s hair is set in a mass of curlers and all of those curlers are made of paper money, here a dollar bill, there a five-dollar bill. The girl’s hair is arrayed in curls, but some of them are beginning to droop and
this makes me happy."
This is the part that I had tagged, not sure what to question or anything. Prompts, please?
Can you all check my answers?
Here's the story:
fairfieldprep.org/uploaded/Bookstore/Summer_Assignments_2015/American_Lit._Summer_Reading_(2).....The_First_Day--Edward_P._Jones.pdf
Why can't the narrator attend Seaton Elementary?
She is the wrong age.
She does not have the uniform Seaton requires.
She lives outside the area Seaton serves. *
She is too poor to attend Seaton.
At Walker-Jones, the narrator suddenly becomes afraid when she sees:
The people walking over the papers on the floor.*
The girl with the brand new notebook and pencils.
The woman sitting at a table wearing money as curlers.
The women who look like advertisements out of Ebony.
Why does the narrator's mother ask Walker-Jones to help her fill out the registration form?
She cannot find the form.
She wants to be friendly.
She doesn't like paperwork.
She cannot read or write.*
The mother responds to her daughter by saying "One monkey don't stop no show" What does she mean by this? She is:
Determined*
Triumphant
Amused
Defeated
When the narrator describes the women greeting parents and children the reader can tell that the narrator thinks the women look:
Glamorous*
unpleasant
Silly
Shabby
"As if she had known me her whole life" the narrator means that the woman is acting:
Shy/nervous
Cold/mean
Curious/charmed
Warm/familiar*
Sturdiness means
Strength*
Sloppiness
Fraility
Heaviness
Possessive meaning:
Carelessly*?
Shyly
Selfishly*?
Thoughtfully
What happens just after the teacher at Walker-Jones introduces herself to the mother?
Mother stares at teacher
Teacher writes on card*
Teachers speaks to woman sitting at table
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Please help!!!
Ms. Sue, other teachers?
Not trying to be impatient.
Not trying to be impatient.
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