As we continue our Waves of Change unit,the text we are reading this week is "My First Free Summer" Julia Alvarez and her family have to flee the Dominican Republic and come to live in America. Click here for a copy of the text. We will pair that memoir with a poem "How I Learned English" Click here for the poem.
Vocabulary that students will be expected to know are:writhing, desperation, contradict, unravel, interrogate, and summon. You should be able to answer cause and effect questions such as: Julia is having a boring summer because... The Alverez family is leaving for the US on such a short notice because..... Because Julia's father is involved in the plot to over through the dictator, it effects Jullia's life by ....
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