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Chapter Summary: 'Madonnas Of Echo Park'

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Ada Ling
Professor Jamie Pedrini
College One #0831
10 September 2014
Reading Response Journal 1: Madonnas of Echo Park
1. Summary of Author’s Note:
Where the main population in the classrooms are Vietnamese and Mexicans we are introduced to two characters, Brando and Aurora. In the six grade, many of the students are divide within there own social groups the Vietnamese talked to other Vietnamese and Mexicans talked to Mexicans. Even though the two groups never had anything in common they had MTV in common, music was the universal language. For everyone to be able to communicate with one another Ms. O’Neill created a dance party for the class. Everyone in the class had to bring a record for the class to be able to dance to; when dance day came …show more content…

Discussion Questions
-What will happen to Hector after the interrogation? Will he give the money back or be sent back home?
-Will Adam begin to kill others to get the ladder? Why did Adam kill Diego then?
5. Reading Process
While I was reading the chapter their were times I wondered what I was reading since it would flash back an forth. In the novel since we are barley getting to know the character I was very confused of who was who in the novel. Also another issue that I had while reading the novel was that all the parts were in English so I had to translate what the characters had to say.
6. Vocabulary
-Deceit- the action or practice of deceiving someone by concealing or misrepresenting the truth. This was an important vocabulary since I knew that Hector was telling a lie but I wondered why he would tell a lie since it was not in front of the police.
-Galvanize- coat (iron or steel) with a protective layer of zinc. With this vocabulary in the sentence I knew that the author was talking about a fence but I did not know what type of fence the character was standing next to.
- Mestizo- a man of mixed race, especially the offspring of a Spaniard and an American Indian. This word was used to describe a women at first I thought it was the color of the skin but now looking back it was an important vocabulary to be able to describe Cristina

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