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New Words

• Seamstress: A woman who sews, especially the one who

makes her living by sewing.
• Nostalgia:
• 1. A bittersweet longing for things, persons, or situations of
the past.
• 2. The condition of being homesick; homesickness.
• Nudge:
• 1. To push against gently, especially in order to gain
attention or give a signal.
• 2. To come close to; near: "The temperature was nudging
105 degrees in the shade" (Scouting).
 Q.1 How the
author is using
details to • The author uses the opening
weave a vivid
and paragraph to establish how
meaningful her mother was homesick,
narrative? then she described her
parents’ difficulty in adapting
to the new country.
 Q.2.How did
the father help
the mother in
overcoming the • He usually answered her in English
when she spoke to him in Spanish.
difficulties in They would go back and forth in
language? either language talking about work
or homesickness or family.
 Q.3.Who else
helped the
parents in
their language • The son (Pedrito) would occasionally
correct them or help them finish
barrier? their sentences in English.
 Q.4.How did the
children develop • The children learned how to
take care of themselves in
their characters in their new home as their
the new country? parents worked long hours,
and they counted on them to
be independent.
AQ.5. Why did the
daughter take her • He wants to learn to play
son to visit his he guitar, and his mother
wants her parents and
grandparents? Peter to teach her son a
few good old songs.