Sean+K.

Day 1 questions

1. Why did Sal's father insist on her traveling with her grandparents to Idaho? Use evidence from the novel to support your answer. Her father insists on her going to Idaho with her grandparents because he whats Sal to see her mother's grave. They said in the book that she was very much like her and the grandparents what to tell and show her about her mother.

3. How did Sal get her name and what is the significance behind her name? Use evidence from the novel to support your answer. Answer: Sal's middle name is tree. They named her that because she most of loved trees. Her first name is Salamanca. She got that name because it was a indian name. She got that name from a indian tribe from her great-great-grandmother.

Day 2 questions

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. The grandparents can get into alot of trouble. In the chapter, the grandpa goes outside to help a women fix her car but he makes the car worst than someone better comes and and fixes it. She said that her grandparentsget into trouble easyand they do.

3. If you were Mrs. Winterbottom, how would you have felt about the way in which your family treated you? I would feel sad that my family was treating me like that. Like it said in the story Sal's freind's sister asks her mother to do some thing that she already knows how to do and that is sewing.