Pierre is a student who does not understand the following sentence from Cristina Garcia’s Dreaming in Cuban. Lourdes buys a round box of sticky dates and considers the centuries of fratricide converging on this street corner in Brooklyn. She ponders the transmigrations from the southern latitudes, the millions moving north. Which strategy would best help Pierre understand the excerpt?

looking up unfamiliar words in the sentence

Explanation:

The "Dreaming in Cuban" was a famous novel written by the author named,  Cristina García,. It was her first novel. This book was nominated for the National Book Award, where she was the finalist.

The book "Dreaming in Cuban" was about the the lives of a three generation of women of a family in the Cuba and the United States.

In the context, Pierre is finding difficulty in understanding the excerpt taken from the novel. So the best strategy for Pierre to understand the sentences from the excerpt is to look up for the unfamiliar words given in the sentence and see their meaning and explanations. When Pierre will understand the meaning of the unfamiliar words, she will understand the sentences.

in other words

to put it differently

for one thing

as an illustration

in this case

for this reason

to put it another way

that is to say

with attention to

by all means

important to realize

another key point

first thing to remember

most compelling evidence

must be remembered

point often overlooked

to point out

on the positive side

on the negative side

with this in mind

notably

including

like

to be sure

namely

chiefly

truly

indeed

certainly

surely

markedly

such as

especially

explicitly

specifically

expressly

surprisingly

frequently

significantly

particularly

in fact

in general

in particular

in detail

for example

for instance

to demonstrate

to emphasize

to repeat

to clarify

to explain

to enumerate