Monday, December 17, 2007

Vocabulary

1. Denounced pg. 49-unproclaimed deny relations
One government official denounced corruption in the state.
I denounced that my mom is black.

2. Void pg 55- a space or great distance from
He leaps foward into the black viod.
The void between generations is starting to fill.

3. la migra pg 59- means border patrol in spansh
Enrique was captured by what the locals call la migra.
I was scared when i saw the la migrra.

4. Electocuted pg 58- to have a electco current run through your body
Two boys were electrocuted on top of a train.
I was eletrocuted and shortly after the power went out.

5. Lempiras pg 56- is a currencey in money in hondures
She has saved 10,000 lempiras and gave it to young enrique.
I used lempiras to buy bread.


Sunday, December 16, 2007

all questions enrique

Rebellion

1. Enrique showes rebellion by not going to school and not coming home on time.



2. Enriques new guardian is his uncle marco.



3. Enriques had to start working when he was young and belky had to stay in school so she could have better life.



4. Children find food in dumster and by working in the feilds, and the enviorment is in a bad neighbor hood.



5. Glue is given and is taken away from the kids because they use glue as drugs.



6. Loudres moves in with her friend in compoton in a garage and they work three jobs each.



7. I think ludres wants to stay in America because there are more job oppurtunitys.



8. Living with uncle marco giving enrique a better chance of having a better life.



9. Enrique finds more about the trains from one of the surviviors of the train.



10. Loudres does not want to return back and she feel that she needs to earn money so she can get her kids out of there.



11. Marcos girlfriend takes the anger out on enrique and sends him to his grandmother.



12. Enrique will ride the train.

Addiction

1. Enrique is 15 and he has gone about 13 years without his mother.



2. Enrique goes to live with his grandma and auants.



3. Enrique feels that he needs drugs because he feels know one loves him.



4. Enrique puts alot of effort to get the girl to like him he even buys her a picture with some

words on it.



5. Enrique gets a room in the outside like a shack because he does drugs.



6. Mariaes family takes showers outside in the middle of the hose area.



7. Marie Isabel is a hard worker because she enjoys doing her chores and helping others with there chores and enjoyes school.



8. Enrique is introduced to marijuans with his new drug friend.



9. Marie notices tat he is meaner and he does not care about anything that he does.



10. Yes, more people love him then he thinks.



11. Enrique will end up dead and forgotten just like all tje other kids.

Is Enrique going crazy?

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Chapter 1 boy left behind

1. The main characters are belky, enrique, and loudres.



2. No, i have never been in a situation like enriques before.



3. Loudres decesioon was smart because now she has a chance to earn money for her kids.



4. I think loudres will not come back at all because she wants to earn money for her kids.



5. Enrique will probably think that he was the problem and that is why his mother left.



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7. Some reasons why children enter the U.S. because they want to find there mothers.



8. Some dangers of traveling to america are being raped, stole from, and killed.



9. These children are from the age of 13-19.

Chapter 1 confusion

1. Enrique and Belky is left with loudres mother which is there grandma.



2. Loudres get to america on a train that they call a fright train.



3. I think enriques father is a bad role model to him and his sister.



4. Lourdes startes of cleaning somebodys health and takes cre of a little boy.



5. Enrique feels like nobody loves him and they keep walking out on him.



6. The father blames enrique because the father can not get a girlfriend.



7. Belky feels the same as enrique but she has a better support system.



8. Enrique works during the school day instead of going to school.



9. Enrique celebrates his b-day by witing for his dad to get home.



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12. Loudres gets triked because she asked a lawyer for help but the lawyer takes her money.



13. Enrique find out by the train by talking to a returning person.



14. Smugglers are people who take immigrants in and they can take your moey or smuggle the immigrants in.
Enriques journey

2. When enrique is attacked farmered named gomez helps him and brings him water.

3. Many mexicans care for the immigrants and they want to help them.

4. Enrique has encountered corrupt police that beat, steal, and rape from the immigrants.

5. Many immigrants use the train or the go on foot to get were they need to go.

6. The atiudues to immigrantes differ in every country but it lloks like the same concept.

7. Evry time enrique tries to get across the boarder he gets captured by the polic or the la migira they usely robb him or beat him up.

Monday, December 3, 2007

Chapter 1 five vocab words

Labyrinth pg. 20-Def: a structure of connecting passage
Sent from Book: The path becomes a labyrinth.
Sent: A maze is a example of a labyrinth

Thwart pg. 6-Def: to block or hinder
Sent from Book: Since the 1990's , Mexicoand the United States have tried to thwart them.
Sent: ray Lewis thwart LT from scoring most of the game.

Idealize pg. 7-Def: to regard envision or represent a ideal
Sent fom Book: Enrique begins to idealize his mother.
Sent: I idealize Mrs. Salter andt the work she has done.

Bleak pg. 4-Def: dreary and somber
Sent from Book: they have a bleak future.
Sent: The shadow looks bleak in the distance.

Contorts pg. 22-Def:to twist or wrench out
Sent from Book: He contorts his face.
Sent: The little boy contorts his face.