"Abuela Invents The Zero" intro 2.0

It all began with Abuela coming up from the Island for a visit—her first time in the United States. My mother and father paid her way here so that she wouldn’t die without seeing snow, though if you asked me, and nobody has, the dirty slush in this city is not worth the price of a ticket. But I guess she deserves some kind of award for having had ten kids and survived to tell about it.

From the above excerpt, you can tell the narration of the story is in _____.

• first person/present tense

• first person/past tense

• third person/present tense

• third person/past tense

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CCSS.RL.1.6

CCSS.RL.5.6

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

Which passage below shows how Constancia really feels about her Abuela?

• "Anyway, I had seen her only three or four times in my entire life, whenever we would go for somebody’s funeral."

• "So we go to Kennedy to get la abuela, and she is the last to come out of the airplane, on the arm of the cabin attendant, all wrapped up in a black shawl."

• "Once home, she refuses to let my mother buy her a coat because it’s a waste of money."

• "So since she’s only four feet eleven inches tall, she walks around in my mother’s big black coat looking ridiculous. I try to walk far behind them in public so that no one will think we’re together."

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

"“Your grandmother says to tell you that of all the hurtful things you can do to a person, the worst is to make them feel as if they are worth nothing.”

I can feel myself shrinking right there in front of her."

What does the word "shrinking" in this passage tell us about Constancia?

• She has been losing weight.

• She hates her grandmother.

• She feels bad about how she treated her grandmother.

• Her grandmother is a mean old woman who is cruel to Consuelo.

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

"I am so embarrassed that even though the woman next to me is shooting daggers at me with her eyes, I just can’t move to go get her. "

The passage above is an example of what literary device?

• hyperbole

• simile

• personification

• magic

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CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

"But I guess she deserves some kind of award for having had ten kids and survived to tell about it."

From the passage above, one can infer that Constancia's views on motherhood are ___.

• being a mother is the most precious thing in the world

• mothers don't get enough credit for their work

• mothers should be paid a living wage

• surviving childbirth ten times is not an award winning feat

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CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

CCSS.RL.9-10.3