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We completed a comprehension check by answering questions about what we read.

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We had a surplus of strawberries that we delivered to the local orphanage.

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Panchito tells of his early years as part of a family of migrant farm workers.

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It was an old large galvanized pot she had picked up from an army surplus store in Santa Maria.

I waited as the school secretary jotted down the information I gave her.

Ito, the strawberry sharecropper, did not smile for the season of picking was over.

That night, by the light of a kerosene lamp, we unpacked and cleaned our new home.

"It's alright," my teacher Mr. Lema said understandingly, "You can read later."

This selection is from a collection of autobiographical short stories by Francisco Jimenez.

"Would you like to read?" he asked hesitantly after seeing the expression on my face.

We were asked to annotate the text and find examples of figurative language and imagery.

"The first thing we have to do this morning is finish reading the story we began yesterday," he announced enthusiastically.

I woke up early that morning and lay in bed, looking at the stars and savoring the thought of not going to work and of starting sixth grade for the first time that year.

Papa sighed, wiped the sweat from his forehead with his sleeve and said wearily, "Es todo."

The scaffolding was used by the painters to reach the upper floors of the apartment building.

Instinctively, Roberto and I ran and hid in the vineyards until the bus drove away.

Papa was very proud of his little jalopy which he had bought from a used car lot in the winter of 1949.

He checked the car thoroughly before driving it out of the car lot.