"Eleven" Page 1, Paragraphs 1 - 5

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  1. 3. The narrator says that growing old is kind of like an ______.
  2. 4. The narrator says that even though she's a year older, it still feels like ___ (the day before).
  3. 5. the author of "Eleven"
  4. 9. according to the narrator, the age you are when you feel like sitting on your mama's lap
  5. 10. Mrs. Price places a red _____ on the narrator's desk.
  6. 12. The narrator says that growing old is like the ____ inside a tree trunk.
  7. 13. The narrator says that growing old is like the little, wooden ____ that fit one inside the other.
  8. 15. The narrator is disappointed that she doesn't feel ____ on her eleventh birthday.
  9. 16. According to the narrator, it may take days, weeks, and even ____ before you feel your new age.
  10. 18. According to the narrator, the age you are when you say stupid things
  11. 19. In paragraph ____, the narrator explains her theory as to how one grows old
  12. 20. the name of the narrator's teacher: Mrs. ______
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  1. 1. It is the narrator's eleventh _____.
  2. 2. Who does the narrator tell that when she feels like crying, she's feeling three?
  3. 6. "You open your ____ and everything's just like yesterday..."
  4. 7. the only bold vocabulary word on page 1
  5. 8. True or False: The red sweater belongs to the narrator.
  6. 11. The narrator feels like adults don't _____ birthdays or how a person grows older.
  7. 14. The narrator says she feels like a tin Band-Aid box that holds rattling _____.
  8. 17. On her birthday, the narrator wishes she were one ____ and two years old instead of eleven.
  9. 18. according to the narrator, the age you are when you feel like crying
  10. 19. The narrator says that when you're eleven, you're also ___, and nine, and...