Coming to America: Finding Your Voice After the first reading, have students reflect on and discuss the following comprehension
questions in pairs or triads, and then debrief their answers as a whole group:
1. What does here mean at the end of the first paragraph, and why do you think it is in
quotation marks?
2. Why does Hinojosa put quotation marks around the phrase "real America"? What is she
implying about that idea?
3. What details does Hinojosa include to describe the differences between her mother and
the immigration agent? How do those details support the statement, "My mom didn't
feel very powerful?
4. How did Hinojosa's mother make the big Texan feel small
5. What lesson does Hinojosa say she learned from her mother in her coming to
America" story?

Compare dee’s and her mother’s spoken language

It warportant fact about the wounded soldiers is reflected by the repetition of the bolded sentences in the excerpts from "in another country" by ernest hemingway? a. it establishes the irony that, although the wounded soldiers have physically left the warfront, the war continues to haunt them psychologically it shows the gradual loss of hope and growing depression of the wounded soldiers and their need for distractions b. c. it establishes the wounded soldiers' determination to shun war and disobey military commands to return to the front after they recover. d. it shows the wounded soldiers' sadness and disappointment at the lack of gratitude from the people they risked their lives to protect e it shows the wounded soldiers' belief that the war would never end, even as thousands of soldiers were killed or wounded and sent to hospitals.

In hard times by charles dickens, the scene in which the characters discuss the depiction of horses on wallpaper and flowers on carpets is the author’s way of showing the absurdity of