Wednesday, 25 January 2012

The Corn Grows Ripe (Ch. 1-4)

Vocabulary:
Chacalacas-a very noisy bird
Guano-kind of palm tree
Mamich-little old grandmother
Curva-a short knife with curved blade
On-avocado tree
pozole-a drink made of corn
Roble-oak tree
Balams-corn god
Anona-leaves thorney
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Summary

Grandma thinks Tigre is how a men because he is 12 years old. Tigre has a hard time getting used to working like a man but meanwhile he gets used to it. Then later in the morning when Tigre was waking up, his mom said that his dad was chopping trees and the tree fell on his legs! What do you think will happen to him later?

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