1a. According to Rachel, what don't people understand about birthdays?
2a. What does Mrs. Price hold up for the class to see? What does she ask the class? How does the class respond?
3a. What does Sylvia Saldívar say to Mrs. Price? How do Rachel and Mrs. Price respond?
4a. What does Mrs. Price tell Rachel to do with the sweater?
1b. Does Rachel feel older when she wakes up on her birthday? Why, or why not?
2b. Why does Rachel say "even if it belongs to me, I wouldn't say so?"
3b. What does Rachel do when the sweater is placed on her desk? What does she try to remember to feel better?
4b. Why does Rachel obey Mrs. Price?
5a. Identify the words and actions of Mrs. Price that affect Rachel's day.
5b. Why might Mrs. Price do and say these things? Why does Rachel react the way she does?
6a. What do you think Rachel does after school on this day? What do you think she tells her parents about the day? How do you think her mood might change, if at all?
6b. If you had been in Rachel's position, what would you have done? How would you have acted if you were Mrs. Price?
Description. What objects or actions in "Eleven" are described in detail? How do those descriptions contribute to the story?
Simile. Find examples of simile in "Eleven" and note them on your own paper in a graphic organizer like the one that follows.
1. Imagine you are an advice columnist and that Rachel writes to you about the day of her eleventh birthday and about how she wishes she were older. Write a letter of advice back to her, expressing your thoughts.
2. Write three similes that compare items you own or see every day with other things.
3. Write a detailed description of a room in your home. Include details that appeal to all of the senses, revealing how things in the room look, sound, feel, smell, and taste.
Verb Tenses: Simple Tenses. Present tense shows that something is happening now. Past tense verbs talk about something that happened before now, and future tense verbs talk about something that will happen in the future. Look at the examples in the Language Arts Survey 3.61, "Simple Tenses." Then change the following present tense sentences to past and future tense.
1. Today I go for a walk. Yesterday Tomorrow
2. Today Raymond is studying with me. Yesterday Tomorrow
3. Today we are rehearsing. Yesterday Tomorrow
4. Today I do eat pizza. Yesterday Tomorrow
5. Today Mya teaches biology. Yesterday Tomorrow
6. Today Simon does run to the store. Yesterday Tomorrow
7. Today Anna meets Carrie at the library. Yesterday Tomorrow
8. Today Charlie is reading in front of the class. Yesterday Tomorrow
9. Today I see Tristin. Yesterday Tomorrow
10. Today Melania is eating a hot lunch. Yesterday Tomorrow
Using a Thesaurus. Review the Language Arts Survey 5.21, "Using a Thesaurus." Next, use a thesaurus to find as many synonyms for the verb age as you can. Then write a paragraph explaining what age or aging means to you.
Synonyms for age:
Paragraph explaining what age or aging means to you:
