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What makes a Narrative?
my Notes
32 One Friday during lunch hour Mr. Lema asked me to take a walk with him to the music room. “Do you like music?” he asked me as we entered the building.
33 “Yes, I like corridos,” I answered. He then picked up a trumpet, blew on it, and handed it to me. The sound gave me goose bumps. I knew that sound. I had heard it in many corridos. “How would you like to learn how to play it?” he asked. He must have read my face because before I could answer, he added: “I’ll teach you how to play it during our lunch hours.”
34 That day I could hardly wait to get home to tell Papá and Mamá the great news. As I got off the bus, my little brothers and sisters ran up to meet me. They were yelling and screaming. I thought they were happy to see me, but when
I opened the door to our shack, I saw that everything we owned was neatly packed in cardboard boxes.
Second Read
• Reread the narrative to answer these text-dependent questions.
• Write any additional questions you have about the text in your Reader/Writer Notebook.
1. Key Ideas and Details: Reread the opening paragraphs. What kind of work do the narrator and his family do? Cite details from the story that support your answers.
2. Key Ideas and Details: On page 6 and 7, Jiménez describes the family’s departure. What do the details of the family’s departure help you understand? Cite evidence from the text to support your answer.
3. Craft and Structure: What does the figurative phrase “lump in my throat” in paragraph 12 tell you about the impact of events on the narrator so far in the story? Cite other evidence in the story to support your answer.
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