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