an extreme shortage of food

to swell or puff up

disgustingly dirty

occupy in large numbers

an animal that feeds on decaying matter

Friend; ally; partner

stand up against; resist

in opposition to authority or government

tending to betray

a woman whose husband has died

to summon or bring into being as if by magic

a hinged or sliding door in a floor or ceiling

false sensory perception

fool or hoax

fungus

In which setting is there an excess of bread?

In which setting do you have to make a choice to save the bread, share it, or eat it?

In which setting does the story tell you that you actually eat the bread?

In which setting does the cost of the bread require you to give up information?

In which setting does the bread take on a magical or mystical quality?

Which word means to call upon a spirit and completes the sentence below?

"The loaf of bread I have __________ for you floats about a foot above your kitchen table."

Which word means guilty of betrayal and completes the sentence below?

"The bread they offered you is subversive, it’s ____________, it does not mean life."

Which word means scarcity of food and completes the sentence below?

"Imagine a __________. Now imagine a piece of bread. Both of these things are real but you happen to be in the same room with only one of them. "

Which word means swollen with fluid and completes the sentence below?

" She is starving, her belly is __________, flies land on her eyes; you brush them off with your hand."

What is the moral of the German fairy tale in paragraphs 5-6 where the husband of the rich sister cuts the bread and out flows red blood?

In the settings of the famine, the prison, and the rich sister's household (paragraphs 2-6), what is the cost of the bread if you were to eat it?

Which sentence BEST summarizes the message of "Bread"?

What is a claim or statement that is true about the style of writing in the story "Bread"?

My mother has uncharacteristically spent nearly an hour on my hair that morning,________ it so that now my scalp tingles.

Whenever I turn my head quickly, my nose fills with the __________ smell of Dixie Peach hair grease.

The smell is somehow a ______ one now and I will reach for it time- and time again before the morning ends.

Behind my ears, my mother, to stop my whining, has dabbed the ____________ bit of her gardenia perfume, the last present my father gave her before he disappeared into memory.

I am carrying a pencil, a pencil sharpener, and a small ten-cent tablet with a black-and-white _________ cover.

My mother does not believe that a girl in kindergarten needs such things, so I am taking them only because of my ______ whining and because they are presents from our neighbors, Mary Keith and Blondelle Harris.

The women are as _______ to me as my mother and sisters.

All the way down , the sidewalks are ______ with children.

At I Street, between New Jersey Avenue and Third Street, we enter Seaton Elementary School, a ________, sadfaced building across the street from my mother’s church...

She is _______in a perfume that I only know is not gardenia.

My mother shakes her head __________.

For as many Sundays as I can remember, perhaps even Sundays when I was in her ______, my mother has pointed across I Street to Seaton as we come and go to .

But one of the _________ of that place is saying no, and no again.

I am learning this about my mother: The higher up on the _____-of respectability a person is—and teachers are rather high up in her eyes—the less she is liable to let them push her around.

The higher up on the scale of respectability a person is—and teachers are rather high up in her eyes—the less she is ______ to let them push her around.

We find our way to the crowded ________ where gray metal chairs are set up in the middle of the room.

________ about the floor are dozens and dozens of pieces of white paper, and people are walking over them without any thought of picking them up.

Click all that are characteristics of the mother in "The First Day"

In the story "The First Day" why did the little girl stare at the narrator's mother in the auditorium?

In what Point of View is the story "The First Day" written?

When did the mother of the narrator in "The First Day" show contradictory characteristics, such as love or vulnerability? (There can be multiple answers)

Based on the details in the first paragraph of "The First Day", how do you know that this is not just an ordinary day in the narrator's life? There can be more than one answer.

The girl’s hair is ______ in curls, but some of them are beginning to droop and this makes me happy.

On the table beside the woman’s pocketbook is a large notebook, worthy of someone in high school, and looking at me looking at the notebook, the girl places her hand ________ on it.

My mother slowly _________ each word of my name.

Few of the papers are needed here, but it does not matter and my mother continues to pull out the documents with the ______ of a magician pulling out a long string of scarves.

She has learned that money is the beginning and end of everything in this world, and when the woman finishes, my mother offers her fifty cents, and the woman accepts it without ___________.

We go into the hall, where my mother_________ down to me.

Her lips are ________.

Bread Symbolizes...

Characterization is the literary focus of "The First Day."

What word or words best characterize "the mother" in "The First Day"?

The underlined portion of the sentence is the complete predicate.

You are now lying on a thin mattress in a hot room.

The underline portion of the sentence is the simple presdicate.

You are now lying on a thin mattress in a hot room.

How many prepositional phrases are in this sentence?

You are now lying on a thin mattress in a hot room.

What part of the sentence is the underlined portion?

You are now lying on a thin mattress in a hot room.

What part of the sentence is the underlined portion?

You are now lying on a thin mattress in a hot room.

Characterize the narrator.

What is the Theme of "The First Day"?