Abuela Review

An agreement or settlement of a dispute that is reached by each side making concessions.

• Obligation

• Compromise

• Argument

• Agreement

Periscope

• An instrument used to listen to your heart and lungs.

• An older lady

• An instrument used to see into space

• A tube used to see things in a submarine

Senile

• A person who treats the elderly bad

• Showing weakness of old age

• A person who goes to church regularly

• Showing love and understanding to all things

Match the following

• Motivation

• Words or sentences from a text used to support a reader's interpretation

• Fable

• A person's reason for doing something

• Inference

• Stories where the theme is usually stated

• Theme

• A idea formed using the text and background knowledge

• Textual Evidence

• Central Idea or morale of a story

Which option below could be a theme of Abuela Invents the Zero

• 1. Parents can always tell when there is a problem.

• 2. It is important to treat the people in your family with respect, or else you may lose respect for yourself.

• 3. Only vain people have a strong sense of self-respect.

• 4. It is often too difficult to understand how another person feels.

What quote best supports the idea that your elders should be treated with respect?

• 1. “They can see right away that something is wrong.”

• 2. “Then Abuela points her finger at me like a judge passing a sentence on a criminal.”

• 3. “You should know, Constancia, that if it wasn’t for the old woman whose existence you don’t seem to value, you and I would not be here.”

• 4. “I might be sent into the old lady’s room to apologize, and it’s not easy to admit you’ve been a jerk—at least, not right away with everybody watching.”

Where does Constancia need to take Abuela?

• Church

• Shopping for a coat

• Grocery Story

• To see one of her cousins

True or False: Constancia's dad says she cannot use the car to go to the mall with her friends

• True

• False

True or false: Context clues are hints the author gives to help define a word or give you information

• True

• False

Your internal ability to judge what is right or wrong is called your.....