My Visit to Arizona

My Visit to Arizona

Genre: Realistic Fiction

Essential Question: How do people uncover what they have in common?

Multiple Choice

In the word uncover, what is the prefix?

• Cover

• ver

• un

Multiple Choice

Present has two meanings and is spelled the same way. What is that called?

• Synonym

• Antonym

• Homophone

Multiple Select

What are the two meanings of present in this shared fiction?

• To give a gift

• To be shy

• To show something

Time to Reread

Open Ended

What are the three subtitles of My Visit to Arizona?

Open Ended

What was Silvina's first shock when visiting the Gomez ranch?

Possible Sentence Starters

Selvina's first shock is....

Selvina is used to....

Open Ended

What assumptions do people make about Selvina? What is the truth about Selvina?

Possible sentence starters

People assume Selvina....

Selvina knows how to...

Let's analyze this: "Our ranch covers 150 acres, Gramps says. Permit me to show you around."

• Show you around is an idiom used in English to mean to show a person something.

• Could this be confusing to Silvina?

• Why?

Look at nodding and smiling

Let us chat!!!

Open Ended

Look at the rest of Nodding and Smiling. Where else can you cite a confusion due to language?

Open Ended

Describe a time that you learned how to adjust to new people or a new place.