SKILL: Speaker
Pre-Reading Activity:
What do you know about your grandparents? What was your experience with them? How do you remember them? What kind of personalities do/did they have?
1) What do you know about the speaker in" In a Neighborhood in Los Angles"? (speaker)
2) What do lines 19-24 tell you about the grandmother's personality? (characterization)
3) How does the speaker feel about his grandmother? Find lines from the poem to support your answer. (characterization)
4) In what way do you think the speaker's grandmother remains with him? (drawing conclusion)
5) Who babysat for the speaker?
his mother
his grandmother
a child-care center
6) What words best describe the grandmother's peresonality?
joyful, fun-loving
proper, formalr
sad, depressed
7) What did his grandmother teach the boy to do?
ride a bike
fix her hair
love nature
8) What hapened to the grandmother?
She moved back to Mexico
She died
She went to work in the fish canneries
9) In your own words, tell how the speaker felt about his grand mother after she was gone.
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