Oh You don't pick your family like you pick a shirt or a pair of shoes. And you can't give them back like a mistake pair of
pants that you were never really sure of but bought anyway only to return it to the store later. That best describes my family. I
always tried my best to keep the rest of the students from seeing them. One day I forgot my lunch, and my grandmother Nana
walked three blocks to my school to hand it to me. When they called me to the office, there she was in her robe with bright pink
curlers dangling from her hair like antennas. Justine Fox, the most popular girl in school walked in and saw my grandmother. I
wanted to burst like a too ripe tomato from the embarrassment.
Common Core Standard RL.4 Vocabulary
Common Core Standard RL.2 Summarize
1. The narrator opens the text with the first sentence in 2. Write a summary of what you have just read.
order to emphasize-
a. how confused she is about her grandmother
to that she accepts her family the way they are
C. How she feels about her family