"My First Free Summer" by Julia Alvarez
Match the common noun with it's proper noun pair. Recall the practice we did in class on Monday. For example, if the common noun is restaurant than the proper noun match would be something like Wendy's
| Stavka koja se može prevući | arrow_right_alt | Odgovarajuća stavka |
|---|---|---|
Common Noun: the mall | arrow_right_alt | Common Noun: Restaurant |
Proper Noun: Tuesday | arrow_right_alt | Proper Noun: Water Tower Place Mall |
Proper Noun: University of Ilinois | arrow_right_alt | Common Noun: beach |
Common Noun: high school | arrow_right_alt | Proper Noun: Fair Play Groceries |
Proper Noun: North Park Beach | arrow_right_alt | Common Noun: day |
Proper Noun: Wendy's | arrow_right_alt | Proper Noun: Golder College Prep |
Common Noun: grocery store | arrow_right_alt | Common Noun: college |
Proper Noun: Riley (identifies as female)
Proper Noun: Quincy (identifies as male)
Common Noun: coffee mug
Proper Nouns: Riley, Nicolas, Abagail, Kamron, and myself (myself is key to getting this question correct)
Proper Nouns: Riley, Nicolas, Abagail, and Kamron
Click on the "Show Your Work" and play around with the different features. In order to receive credit for this, you must have made at least one straight line and one scribble.
Click on "Show Your Work" and underline all of the common nouns in the passage (common nouns only)
This is the first narrative we are reading for our narrative unit. A narrative is about a character who overcomes a problem. We will be focusinig on personal narratives, or true stories about real pepple. Before you graduate, you will have to write a personal narrative to either apply for colleges or jobs.
Read the text above and answer the questions below:
What is a narrative?
What type of narrative are we focusing on?
Where is our main character from?
Who was "El Jefe" or Rafael Trujillo?

Why did our narrator never have summer?
What are some things our narrator had to do when her friends in local Dominican schools were having a holiday to celebrate the dictator?

Our narrator goes to an American school in the Dominican Republic. The bulk or majority of the student body was made up of who?
What is something our narrrator secretly hoped for?
When did she finally "straighten out"

How does the narrator show change here on this last page? In other words, what about her or her ideas change?
Why did she decide to "straighten out" and pay attention in school?
Can you make a connection to what was happening in the Dominican Republic to what is happening in places in the United States? See video, but feel free to share your own interpretation of what is going on currently in the United States.