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Grade 5: Module 1: Unit 2: Lesson 2
Metaphor Que ions: “Las Almendras”
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RL.5.1, L.5.5a
Name: _________________________________ Date: ____________________________ Metaphor Que ions: “Las Almendras”
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In this chapter, Miguel has a surprise for Esperanza and Mama: Papa’s roses. What does the author mean by the sentence on page 124: “Now if they bloomed she could drink the memories of the roses that had known Papa”? Quote accurately from the text to support your answer.
The night before the re, Esperanza had wanted to ask Hortensia to use the roses to make rosehip tea. It says on page 124, “She remembered the night before the re, when she had la seen the roses and had wanted to ask Hortensia to make rosehip tea.” Now she would be able to do this, and because the rose plants were the same ones that Papa planted, when she drank the tea she would be able to think of him.
Onpages132,Martaholdsupakittenandsays,“Thisiswhatweare.”How are they like the kittens? How does Marta sugge they ght behaving “like kittens”? Quote accurately from the text to support your answer.
They are like kittens because they are treated as though they are small and meek, and they are afraid to speak up for what they believe in. On page 132, Marta continues, “Small, meek animals. And that is how they treat us because we don’t speak up.” She sugge s they ght this by going on rike. She says, “We are going to rike in two weeks ... for higher wages and better housing.”
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