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    Eleven

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    Giorgi Aptsiauri
    Rachel feels conflicted on her 11th birthday. While she is now 11, she still feels the emotions and behaviors of her younger ages, from silly 10-year-old moments to needing comfort like a 5-year-old. At school, her teacher wrongly accuses her of owning an ugly sweater. Rachel cannot speak up to correct the teacher. She feels strongly upset by being given the sweater. At the end of the story, Rachel feels sick inside and wants to get far away, reflecting on how past years stay with a person through time.

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    Eleven

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    Giorgi Aptsiauri
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    Rachel feels conflicted on her 11th birthday. While she is now 11, she still feels the emotions and behaviors of her younger ages, from silly 10-year-old moments to needing comfort like a 5-year-old. At school, her teacher wrongly accuses her of owning an ugly sweater. Rachel cannot speak up to correct the teacher. She feels strongly upset by being given the sweater. At the end of the story, Rachel feels sick inside and wants to get far away, reflecting on how past years stay with a person through time.

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    Rachel feels conflicted on her 11th birthday. While she is now 11, she still feels the emotions and behaviors of her younger ages, from silly 10-year-old moments to needing comfort like a 5-year-old. At school, her teacher wrongly accuses her of owning an ugly sweater. Rachel cannot speak up to correct the teacher. She feels strongly upset by being given the sweater. At the end of the story, Rachel feels sick inside and wants to get far away, reflecting on how past years stay with a person through time.

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    Eleven

    Uploaded by

    Giorgi Aptsiauri
    Rachel feels conflicted on her 11th birthday. While she is now 11, she still feels the emotions and behaviors of her younger ages, from silly 10-year-old moments to needing comfort like a 5-year-old. At school, her teacher wrongly accuses her of owning an ugly sweater. Rachel cannot speak up to correct the teacher. She feels strongly upset by being given the sweater. At the end of the story, Rachel feels sick inside and wants to get far away, reflecting on how past years stay with a person through time.

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    1. What is special about the day in this story?

    special about the day in this story is that when you're


    eleven, you're also ten, and nine, and eight, and seven, and six, and five, and four, and three, and two
    and one. And when you wake up on your eleventh birthday you expect to feel eleven, but you don't. You
    open your eyes and everything's just like yesterday, only it's today.the way you grow old is kind of like an
    onion or like the rings inside .tree trunk or like my little wooden dolls that fit one inside the other, each
    year inside the next one.

    2. What article of clothing causes difficulties? there was red sweater which was sitting in the coat room
    for a month, it was ugly with red plastic buttons and a colars and sleeves were all stretched. teacher was
    trying to proove that this sweater belonged to her but, it was not hers.

    3. What must Rachel do at the end of math period? she wanted to take red sweater and throw it over
    the schoolyard fence or leave it hanging on a parking meter.

    4. How is the mix-up straightened out?

    5. How does Rachel feel at the end of the story? it was her birthday but she feels sick inside, she wants
    to be far away, far away like a runaway ballon, like small o in the sky.

    Critical Thinking

    1. Explain how Rachel can be eleven, but also all her younger ages as well. maybe she is eleven but
    some days she might say something stupid, and that's the part of her that's still ten. she might need to
    sit on her mama's lap because she is scared, and that's the part of her that's five. And maybe one day
    she will need to cry like if she is three.

    2. Why can’t Rachel speak up to tell Mrs. Price the sweater is not hers? Because she's older and she's the
    teacher, she's right and I'm not, so nothing comes out of her mouth

    3. Why does Rachel react so strongly to being given the sweater? she reacts so strongly because this
    sweater is not hers, and teacher is trying to proove that sweater belongs to racher. also this sweater
    looks ugly and thats one of the reason she dont wants take it.

    4. Why does Rachel say the cake will be ‘too late”?

    5. In what ways do past years stay with a person through time? Like some days you might say something
    stupid, and that's the part of you that's still ten. Or you might need to sit on your mama's lap because
    you're scared, and that's the part of you that's five. And maybe one day you will need to cry like if you're
    three

    6. In what ways do you identify with Rachel in “Eleven”?

    7. Give both – direct and indirect characterizations of Rachel:

    Include details & examples; cite some from the text.


    Close reading questions for “Eleven” by Sandra Cisneros

    1. Why might the story both begin and end with the narrator’s counting

    backwards from eleven to one: “you’re eleven, you’re also ten, and nine, and

    eight . . .”(2-3)?

    2. What is significant about the number eleven? Why might this represent such

    an important birthday?

    3. Why does the narrator continue to repeat the words “stupid” and “dumb”?

    How does this repetition create tension in the story?

    4. How does story shift between interior monologue and dialogue? What is the

    effect?

    5. Why can Rachel not tell Mrs. Price that the sweater doesn’t belong to her?

    Does the narrator’s use of language help us anticipate her timidity?

    6. What parts of the story are examples of Rachel’s maturity and wisdom

    beyond her years?

    7. What does Rachel mean when she says, “[I]t’s too late” (120)? What tone or

    attitude is reflected here?

    8. How might parts of the passage be particularly reflective of a female

    narrative?

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