AN HOUR WITH ABUELO
Step 1: Read the following poem and complete the chart.
List any unknown words you are not familiar with.
A Dream Deferred
Look up the word’s definition in the dictionary.
What happens to a dream deferred?
Does it dry up
like a raisin in the sun?
Or fester like a sore-And then run?
Does it stink like rotten meat?
Or crust and sugar over-like a syrupy sweet?
Maybe it just sags
like a heavy load.
Or does it explode?
What do you think the poem is about?
Step 2: Complete each sentence starter with your thoughts.
1. Spending time with someone who I don’t share interests with is_____________________
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2. Old people are not interesting because ________________________________________
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3. Old people are interesting because ___________________________________________
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4. Not being able to accomplish a dream is _______________________________________
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5. Grandparents should______________________________________________________
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6. Grandchildren should______________________________________________________
Step 3: Review the following quotes and predict what you think the plot of the story.
Use words or phrases from the quotes in your explanation.
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…since the doctors say that he doesn’t have too long to go now.
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…I hate the place, the old people e’s home, especially the way it smells like
industrial-strength ammonia and other stuff I won’t mention…
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They line up the old people in wheelchairs in the hallway…
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With my heart and soul I knew that I wanted to be around books all of my life.
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…I was too smart for my own good, and [he] gave me a job cleaning latrines.
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My parents were sick, two of my brothers had been killed in the war.
My prediction:
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