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Second Read
• Reread the personal narrative to answer these text-dependent comprehension questions.
• Write any additional questions you have about the text in your Reader/Writer Notebook.
1. Craft and Structure: Look at the opening sentence. How does the author engage and orient the reader?
2. Craft and Structure: What is the point of view of this text? From whose perspective is it written? Cite evidence from the text in your answer.
3. Key Ideas and Details: To show his hatred of his jacket, Soto exaggerates the effect of the jacket on his life. List some effects of the jacket by copying phrases directly from the story.
4. Craft and Structure: Paragraphs 7, 8, and 9 have especially vivid examples of similes that describe how the narrator is feeling. Underline examples. Choose one that you consider especially vivid, rewrite it, and explain its effect.
5. Craft and Structure: In the final paragraph of the narrative, Soto uses the following metaphor to describe his jacket “...my jacket, that green ugly brother who breathed over my shoulder that day and every day since.” Based on this line, what can you conclude about the significance of the jacket in Soto’s life?
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