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Day 1 1. Why did Sal's father insist on her traveling with her grandparents to Idaho? Use evidence from the novel to support your answer.

2. Who does Sal decide to tell her grandparents a story about? Why did she choose to tell this story other than another story? Use evidence from the novel to support your answer. Sal tells the story of Phoeby because thats the only story that she knows and she thought that her story was very special.

3. How did Sal get her name and what is the significance behind her name? Use evidence from the novel to support your answer. The thing that is significent about Sal's name and the way that she got her name is that she got her name from an indian tribe. And her feel name is Salamenca.

4. Compare how Sal's mother is simil

1. In the past we discussed the use of verbal irony in literature. What clues did the author give that helped the reader infer that Mrs. Partridge was blind? What do you think was ironic about Mrs. Partridge being blind?

2. Use an event from Chapter 5 to support Sal's statement, "My grandparents can get into trouble as easily as a fly can land on a watermelon." It means that her grandparents can get in to trouble very easily. And if that was with me I would feel a little embarreses.

3. If you were Mrs. Winterbottom, how would you have felt about the way in which your family treated you? I would feel bad and left out because in the book it seems as if no one cares about her. 4. Explain why blackberries reminded Sal of her mother. Explain something that reminds you of another person. ar to and different from her parents. Use evidence from the novel to support your answers.