1. Is cereal soup? Why or why not? 2. What’s the best WI-Fi name you’ve seen?
3. What’s the most ridiculous fact you know?
4. What’s the weirdest thing a guest has done at your house?

Read the text evidence. "fish cheeks" then my father poked his chopsticks just below the fish eye and plucked out the soft meat. "amy, your favorite," he said, offering me the tender fish cheek. i wanted to disappear. "broken chain" alfonso thought he would look cool with his hair razored into a v in the back and streaked purple. but he knew his mother wouldn't go for it. and his father, who was puro mexicano, would sit in his chair after work, sullen as a toad, and call him "sissy." which theme does the text evidence from the essay and short story support? one’s cultural background affects who he or she is. manners are important to use in life. a person’s outward appearance can be deceiving. family always comes first.

Published in 1849, by was inspired by the writer's experience of being arrested when he refused to pay a $1 poll tax as a protest against the mexican-american war.

Which tense allows for an event that began in the past to carry into the present moment in time