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Write a list of at least three things that you noticed in your preview of the text. Begin by previewing the passage from Under the Mesquite. Quickly look over the text to become familiar with the topic and the free-verse style of the text before reading it. Examine text features such as the Spanish symbols and accents, headings, and verse organization. señorita Mami said life would change after I turned fifteen, when I became a señorita. But señorita means different things to different people. For my friends Mireya and Sarita, who turned fifteen last summer, señorita means wearing lipstick, which when I put it on is sticky and messy, like strawberry jam on my lips. For Mami, señorita means making me try on high-heeled shoes two inches high and meant to break my neck. For Mami’s sisters, my tías Maritza and Belén, who live in Mexico, señorita means measuring me, turning me this way and that as they fit me for the floral dresses they cheerfully stitch together on their sewing machines. For the aunts, señorita also means insisting I wear pantyhose, the cruel invention that makes my thick, trunk-like thighs into bulging sausages. When my tías are done dressing me up like a big Mexican Barbie doll, I look at myself in the mirror. Mami stands behind me as I pull at the starched flowered fabric and argue with Mami’s reflection. “Why do I have to wear this stuff? This is your style, not mine! I like jeans and tennis shoes. Why can’t I just dress like a normal teenager? En los Estados Unidos, girls don’t dress up like muñecas.” “Señoritas don’t talk back to their mothers,” Mami warns. When my aunts aren’t looking, she gives me a tiny pinch, like a bee sting on the inside of my upper arm. “Señoritas know when to be quiet and let their elders make the decisions.” For my father, señorita means he has to be a guard dog when boys are around. According to my parents, I won’t be allowed to date until I graduate from high school. That’s fine with me. I have better things to do than think about boys— like prepare for my future. I want to be the first one in our family to earn a college degree. For my sisters, señorita means having someone to worship: it is the wonder of seeing their oldest sister looking like Cinderella on her way to the ball. But for me, señorita means melancolía: settling into sadness. It is the end of wild laughter. The end of chewing bubble gum and giggling over nothing with my friends at the movies, our feet up on the backs of the theater seats. Señorita is very boring when we go to a fancy restaurant decorated with Christmas lights for the upcoming Posadas. We sit properly, Papi, Mami, and I, quietly celebrating my fifteenth birthday with due etiquette because I’m trying my best to be a good daughter and accept the clipping of my wings, the taming of my heart. Being a señorita is not as much fun as I’d expected it to be. It means composure and dignity. Señorita is a niña, the girl I used to be, who has lost her voice.

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