Grab+Hands+and+Run

Central America and the Caribbean Islands


=1. Read through the Vocab= =2. Map the Book (if available)= =3. Listen to the Chapter= =4. Answer your journal question= = =

Chapters: 1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5 / 6 / 7 / 8 / 9 / 10 / 11 / 12 / 13 / 14 / 15 / 16 / 17 / 18 / 19 / 20

=Ch 1 =

Vocabulary:
Si - yes Abuela - grandmother patito - little duck

maguey fibers - a fiber from the maguey plant (agave plant  is another name)
 * Maguey Fibers ||  || Maguey Plant ||
 * [[image:maguay fiber.jpg width="80" height="209"]] || [[image:http://www.jewmalt.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Del-Maguey-3.jpg width="240" height="180" link="@http://www.jewmalt.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Del-Maguey-3.jpg"]] || [[image:http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-I1MG03nlJck/T9PPRc6wIfI/AAAAAAAAGNo/HJR3Rqdja-M/s1600/agave-harvest.jpg width="241" height="182" align="right" link="@http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-I1MG03nlJck/T9PPRc6wIfI/AAAAAAAAGNo/HJR3Rqdja-M/s1600/agave-harvest.jpg"]] ||

the fields to cut crops || broom flowers - yellow flowers ||
 * bobbins - spool to wrap twine around || [[image:https://encrypted-tbn3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcR_caUqD9lZT48OmfBb0NFyqmA7GbYd7gCKM1je5GHEdf8J8gz- width="203" height="169" link="@https://encrypted-tbn3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcR_caUqD9lZT48OmfBb0NFyqmA7GbYd7gCKM1je5GHEdf8J8gz-"]] || [[image:https://encrypted-tbn2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcT7Muw9Yb02awesItP3m7w8xgAPIelmLqVDwJqo-Fhw-rWR6lfY9g width="219" height="164" link="@https://encrypted-tbn2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcT7Muw9Yb02awesItP3m7w8xgAPIelmLqVDwJqo-Fhw-rWR6lfY9g"]] ||
 * illiterates - people that cannot read || machete - large knife used in


 * [[image:http://blstb.msn.com/i/5B/1491CBD19C3670EE2C3FCAC9FF2BAB.jpg width="240" height="216" link="@http://blstb.msn.com/i/5B/1491CBD19C3670EE2C3FCAC9FF2BAB.jpg"]] || [[image:http://www.roundrockjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/little-ones.jpg width="266" height="198" align="right" caption="Chiggers crawling on a pant leg." link="@http://www.roundrockjournal.com/?p=2829"]] ||
 * chiggers - tiny bugs that bury into your skin. || [[image:https://encrypted-tbn2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTCkfBOmlST89yGvO2KdtAmF9JbRkOdIZHsAILLPxeLsKzKzF_o_g align="right" caption="Chigger bites" link="@https://encrypted-tbn2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTCkfBOmlST89yGvO2KdtAmF9JbRkOdIZHsAILLPxeLsKzKzF_o_g"]] ||

ocotillos - a plant.

hot with not much rain ||  ||
 * [[image:https://encrypted-tbn3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQCkY-N8VCtZloIZTRxgQCNw5WfAjeI7rpU7AtHEo9a-BcctPm1 link="@https://encrypted-tbn3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQCkY-N8VCtZloIZTRxgQCNw5WfAjeI7rpU7AtHEo9a-BcctPm1"]] || [[image:https://encrypted-tbn2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQ2QQBXhsD6D3bz_kWuVn99VYcdF4njOJObW_M8F8l394W1Ncnm width="180" height="275" align="right" link="@https://encrypted-tbn2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQ2QQBXhsD6D3bz_kWuVn99VYcdF4njOJObW_M8F8l394W1Ncnm"]] ||
 * millet - a grain that grows where it is

cipitio - he is a character in a folktale from El Salvador. Looks like a 10 year old boy with a large hat and big belly.

muchachos - guerrillas, subversives - people fighting  against the government for a cause apparition - dream Tia - Aunt or a good old woman

Map:
Usulutan, El Salvador

Listen:
Listen to Chapter 1

to Felipe, and the setting (where) the story takes place.
Top = = =Ch 2 = = =

Vocabulary:
hamlet - a small village

Mazingers - big, heavily armored trucks

Map:
Usulutan, El Salvador

Listen:
Listen to chapter 2

Top

=Ch 3 =

Vocabulary:
Chicos - boys or children melancholy - deep sadness, depressed widow - a woman whose husband has died bachelor - a man who is not married dismember - body parts are cut off or remove que bueno - great!

Map:
Santa Techla, El Salvador, near San Salvador

See the route that Felipe would have taken from his grandparents to his parents:



<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 17.6px;">Listen:
Listen to chapter 3

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">3. What does Felipe’s dog, Payaso, find in the lot? <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">Why doesn’t Jacinto bury it?

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 15px;">Top = = =<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 41.6px;">Ch 4 =

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 17.6px;">Vocabulary:
shrimp -



<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 17.6px;">Map:
no new map

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 17.6px;">Listen:
<span class="wiki_link_ext">Chapter 4

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 17.6px;">(Example, chapter 1 is question 1, chapter 2 is question 2, etc.)
<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">4. Why does Paloma get so mad at Romy that she beats her with a belt?

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 15px;">Top = = =<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 41.6px;">Ch 5 =

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 17.6px;">Vocabulary:
baila - to dance solemn - serious or somber ceiba tree - large tree found in tropical areas. Can get to be over 200 feet tall. Straight trunk with few branches, huge canopy (branches at very top). Roots can be taller than a person.



<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 17.6px;">Map:
no new map

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 17.6px;">Listen:
chapter 5

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 17.6px;">(Example, chapter 1 is question 1, chapter 2 is question 2, etc.)
<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">5. Where are Felipe and his family going? Why?

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=<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 41.6px;">Ch 6 =

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 17.6px;">Vocabulary:
open-air - outside, in the open coaxes - to try to persuade or convince kerosene - a thin oil used for heating or cooking serape - a blanket like shawl.



hombre - man gnarled - knotty, twisted, misshapen calloused - skin is toughened with use.

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 17.6px;">Map:
a lake on the border between SE Guatemala and NW El Salvador, in Central America. About 20 miles (32 km) long.
 * Guija** <span class="show_spellpr" style="display: inline;"> [ gee -hah ] (pronounciation, listen)



<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 17.6px;">Listen:
Chapter 6

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 17.6px;">(Example, chapter 1 is question 1, chapter 2 is question 2, etc.)
<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">6. Why is Felipe frozen with fear when the rowboat man puts <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;"> the whistle to his mouth?

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=<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 41.6px;">Ch 7 =

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 17.6px;">Vocabulary:
Padre - father litany - form of prayer cordillera - a chain of mountains jauntily - having a self-confident air/attitude phosphorus - solid, nonmetallic element (the book talks about someone being burnt by phosphorus) refugees - people who flee for safety fugitives - people who flee from the law cherub - small angel with a chubby face



<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 17.6px;">Map:
Hondo River Motagua



<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 17.6px;">Listen:
Chapter 7

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 17.6px;">(Example, chapter 1 is question 1, chapter 2 is question 2, etc.)
<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">7. What is a chameleon day?

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=<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 41.6px;">Ch 8 =

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 17.6px;">Vocabulary:
Quetzales - the currency of Guatemala 100 Questzales = $12.85

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 17.6px;">Listen:
Chapter 8

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 17.6px;">(Example, chapter 1 is question 1, chapter 2 is question 2, etc.)
<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">8. Why does Josefina correct the way Felipe, Romy, and Paloma speak?

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=<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 41.6px;">Ch 9 =

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 17.6px;">Vocabulary:
salvadorenas - people from El Salvador bendiga - bless mami - mommy

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 17.6px;">Listen:
Chapter 9

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 17.6px;">(Example, chapter 1 is question 1, chapter 2 is question 2, etc.)
<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">9. Where do Felipe, Romy, and Paloma find shelter from the rainstorm?

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=<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 41.6px;">Ch 10 =

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 17.6px;">Vocabulary:
grandotes - big centavos - cents

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 17.6px;">Listen:
Chapter 10

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 17.6px;">(Example, chapter 1 is question 1, chapter 2 is question 2, etc.)
<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">10. Why do Felipe and Paloma make up the story about <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;"> moving from Chiapas to Monterrey?

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=<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 41.6px;">Ch 11 =

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 17.6px;">Vocabulary:
ranchera - traditional Mexican music, sung by 1 performer with a guitar taquito - Mexican food vayan - go gringo - foreigner (often people from the United States who are in Mexico) parapet - a wall or ledge used for protection on the edge of a bridge, etc. tressle cipitio - he is a character in a folktale from El Salvador. Looks like a 10 year old boy with a large hat and big belly.

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 17.6px;">Map:
=Maps from El Salvador to Monterrey=

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 17.6px;">Listen:
Chapter 11

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 17.6px;">(Example, chapter 1 is question 1, chapter 2 is question 2, etc.)
<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">11. Why does Paloma seem to want the coyote to take the room key?

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=<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 41.6px;">Ch 12 =

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 17.6px;">Vocabulary:
mojados - wet (book refers to people as wetbacks because of crossing into the U.S. across the Rio Grande) quarrelling - arguing tarmac - blacktop transient - a person staying or working in a place for only a short time. shrilly - a high-pitched, sharp sound, cry centavos - cents Day of the Dead - a Mexican holiday when people celebrate the lives of those that have died.

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 17.6px;">Map:
In the United States, just across the Rio Grande

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 17.6px;">Listen:
Chapter 12

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 17.6px;">(Example, chapter 1 is question 1, chapter 2 is question 2, etc.)
<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">12. How does Paloma disguise herself? Why did she do this?

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=<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 41.6px;">Ch 13 =

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 17.6px;">Vocabulary:
angelitos - angels por supuesto - of course, certainly chica - girl migra - migrates, migration worker abuelita - little grandmother tonic - a remedy or medicine to feel better

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 17.6px;">Map:
In the United States

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 17.6px;">Listen:
Chapter 13

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 17.6px;">(Example, chapter 1 is question 1, chapter 2 is question 2, etc.)
<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">13. What does Abuelita tell Paloma that sends color to her cheeks?

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=<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 41.6px;">Ch 14 =

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 17.6px;">Vocabulary:
adelante - forward sidle - walk in a timid/shy way caballeros - a Spanish gentleman, someone skilled to ride horses ugointa -- you going to

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 17.6px;">Listen:
Chapter 14

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 17.6px;">(Example, chapter 1 is question 1, chapter 2 is question 2, etc.)
<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">14. Why is Romy afraid of snakes?

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=<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 41.6px;">Ch 15 =

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 17.6px;">Vocabulary:
deportation - making someone leave the country casa - house senora - Mrs. quick - soft and tender skin under nails corralon - big corral/fenced area

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 17.6px;">Listen:
Chapter 15

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 17.6px;">(Example, chapter 1 is question 1, chapter 2 is question 2, etc.)
<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">15. Why does Paloma hesitate to tell the priest about Jacinto?

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=<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 41.6px;">Ch 16 =

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 17.6px;">Vocabulary:
companero - companion, friend white washed - a mixture of the mineral lime and water used to paint on walls or fences to make them look white.

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 17.6px;">Listen:
Chapter 16

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 17.6px;">(Example, chapter 1 is question 1, chapter 2 is question 2, etc.)
<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">16. What 2 things has Felipe discovered about growing up?

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=<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 41.6px;">Ch 17 =

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 17.6px;">Vocabulary:
pummeling - repeated punching, hitting por supuesto - course courier - someone who delivers messages, packages or mail. padre - father

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 17.6px;">Listen:
Chapter 17

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 17.6px;">(Example, chapter 1 is question 1, chapter 2 is question 2, etc.)
<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">17. What is Paloma's reason for not wanting Felipe to go back to El Salvador?

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=<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 41.6px;">Ch 18 =

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 17.6px;">Listen:
Chapter 18

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 17.6px;">(Example, chapter 1 is question 1, chapter 2 is question 2, etc.)
<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">18. What does Felipe mean when he says "life is stronger"?

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=<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 41.6px;">Ch 19 =

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 17.6px;">Listen:
Chapter 19

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 17.6px;">(Example, chapter 1 is question 1, chapter 2 is question 2, etc.)
<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">19. Where does Cipitio go?

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<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 41.6px;">Ch 20

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 17.6px;">Vocabulary:
padre - father gander - goose or duck visa - official paperwork giving permission to enter another country. (usually a stamp or document in you passport)

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 17.6px;">Listen:
Chapter 20

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 17.6px;">(Example, chapter 1 is question 1, chapter 2 is question 2, etc.)
<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">20. Why is everyone so excited about the yellow slip?

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<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">**__Grab Hands and Run__ journal responses ** The chapter and the question are the same number. (Example, chapter 1 is question 1, chapter 2 is question 2, etc.)

1.Write a paragraph describing the characters and their relationship to Felipe, and the setting (where) the story takes place. 2.Why did Felipe’s mom come get him and his sister? 3.What does Felipe’s dog, Payaso, find in the lot? Why doesn’t Jacinto bury it? 4.Why does Paloma get so mad at Romy that she beats her with a belt? 5.Where are Felipe and his family going? Why? 6.Why is Felipe frozen with fear when the rowboat man puts the whistle to his mouth? 7. What is a chameleon day? 8. Why does Josefina correct the way Felipe, Romy, and Paloma speak? 9.Where do Felipe, Romy, and Paloma find shelter from the rainstorm? 10. Why do Felipe and Paloma make up the story about moving from Chiapas to Monterrey? 11. Why does Paloma seem to want the coyote to take the room key? 12. How does Paloma disguise herself? Why did she do this? 13. What does Abuelita tell Paloma that sends color to her cheeks? 14. Why is Romy afraid of snakes? 15. Why does Paloma hesitate to tell the priest about Jacinto? 16. What 2 things has Felipe discovered about growing up? 17. What is Paloma’s reason for not wanting Felipe to go back to El Salvador? 18. What does Felipe mean when he says “life is stronger”? 19. Where does Cipitio go? 20. Why is everyone so excited about the yellow slip?

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