"Eleven" by Sandra Cisneros

1. The red sweater has been in the class's coatroom for a ____.
5. The narrator compares growing old to an _____.
6. The narrator compares growing old to the rings inside a tree ____.
7. The red _____ does not belong to Rachel, but she can't communicate that to her teacher.
8. Rachel's teacher; Mrs. ____
12. The red sweater actually belongs to ____ ____.
14. the part of you that may want to sit on your mother's lap because you're scared (your ___-year-old self)
15. Rachel is insulted when ___ ___ says perhaps the ugly sweater is Rachel's.
16. The narrator says sometimes you may need to cry like when you were ____ years old.
17. While the sweater sits on her desk, Rachel tries to think about her ____ party later at home.
18. Rachel wants to ball up the sweater and throw it in the ____ (vocabulary word).
20. Rachel thinks the red sweater is old, worn, and ____ (vocabulary word).
22. Rachel cries in front of her classmates like a ___-year-old.
23. The narrator says she can feel her 11 years _____ around inside her like pennies in a tin box.
25. The narrator compares growing old to her little wooden ____ that fit inside each other.

2. Mrs. Price tells Rachel to stop her ____ (vocabulary word) and put on the sweater!
3. The narrator says it may take days, weeks, or even ____ before you feel your new age (11).
4. The narrator says her birthday is today, but everything still feels like ______.
9. Rachel wishes she were ____ (vocabulary word); that she could disappear from her classroom.
10. Rachel uses her ____ to push the sweater to the edge of her desk.
11. Rachel wishes the day would be as far away as a runaway _____.
13. When the story opens, it's the narrator's ____ birthday.
19. Rachel thinks - due to what happened in class with the sweater - that it's too ____ to save her birthday.
21. Rachel hates putting on the sweater because she imagines it has a lot of harmful ____ (vocabulary word).
24. the part of you that may say something stupid (your ___-year-old self)