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"It's your present for finishing the eighth grade"

"I connect to this because my dad said if I get good grades this year in 8th grade he will get me the I phone X. But it has to be all A's. In seventh grade I got a 4.0 and I was rewarded with three one hundred dollar pair of shoes, but now it looks like a five dollar pair of shoes because I don't take care of my shoes. "

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"I was happy to be with my family again"

" I can connect to this because once I was seven years old and I stayed with my grandma. I missed my parents so much but I didn't want to tell anyone before they think I'm a wimp. My mom and dad both had jobs, my mom had one job and my dad had two jobs. I only got to see them on weekends because I had to go to school. I finally told my parents and we worked something out."

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"Try them with two pairs of socks"

" I connect to this whenever my mom goes to the mall to buy me a new pair of shoes, she gets a size bigger than my size. She tells me to wear two pairs of socks so it can fit. But whenever I do that, my feet always feels weird and uncomfortable. So i just wear a different pair of shoes instead of my new, fresh shoes."

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"The teacher gave us weekly typing quizzes"

"I can connect to this because my 5th grade teacher gave us weekly typing quizzes all because of me. While she was explaining something, I just kept talking while she was doing it, so she got mad and gave us weekly typing quizzes. It was only suppose to be homework not a quiz. The whole class blamed it on me but I didn't even care."

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When girls come to talk to me about dating and other stuff like that, sometimes they try to say something funny but it is not funny at all but I try to be nice and laugh. One time in my life, a girl named Ariel was talking to me. She tried to tell me something funny but I didn't get it, so she tried again and my voice cracked. She was with all her friends, like ten of her friends. They all were laughing and saying that, that was a cute voice crack. I was not expecting that at all, I didn't expect that a voice crack would be funny, it also made all her friends laugh. I just made everyone laugh and her not understandable joke didn't. Then all of a sudden she gets mad.

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"I laughed, even though I didn't understand her jokes"

"I connect to this because I always do this when I am talking to an attractive girl. Some of their jokes are like not even funny at all but I still laugh. But I just want to be nice and laugh at their unfunny joke, even though I don't get it or it's not even funny at all. But my fake laugh is very good, they believe it's my real laugh."

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"It's like nothing I felt before"

"I can connect to this because I fell in love with this beautiful girl, I went and asked her for her number and she gave it to me. This was back in 5th grade when I was a gangster. I use to never be afraid to talk to a girl, I am still not afraid now. Almost all my friends can talk to a girl through technology but not in person."

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"The van and I did not get along"

"I can connect to this because i was learning how to drive in a empty parking lot and it was very difficult. I hit a light pole when I pressed the gas."

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"I am counting on you"

"I connect to this because my football coach told me that he was counting on me to throw perfect passes. It was a lot of pressure and I choked, but we still won."

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In the year of 2014, December 20, it was the championship game. My game started at 6:00 pm. I was starting QB, everyone was counting on me. The first play of offense I threw a seventy-five yard touchdown pass to our number one receiver. After that I felt no pressure and had no fear, I was just having fun. After that pass everything changed, it was like we were playing catch and nobody would drop it. All the passes were straight to the receiver and all spiral passes. The whole team was all having fun. The game ended and the final score was fifty-two to six. We celebrated after the game and got our trophies. We all went to a restaurant to celebrate our victory and talked about our season

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"The words shot out like bullets"

"I connect to this because every time I ask my dad for money I say it very, very fast because I'm afraid he will say no. I've always been like that since I was little. But now I can ask my parents for anything because I am not afraid to ask anymore."

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"I had no energy and every joint in my body ached."

"I connect to this because every time I have a football game, that is how I feel. I wake up in the morning not wanting to do anything but sleep. I feel so sore and on Monday at P.E I feel very sore, my legs and my shoulders."

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"He looked like he had not slept in days."

"I can connect to this because every time I get a chance to play on my xbox one, I always stay up really late and I have to wake up early in the morning. I look tired and haven't slept for more than 2 hours."

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Claim # 1: In his memoir "Breaking Through" Francisco Jimenez showed responsibility at a young age.

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Claim # 1: In his memoir "Breaking Through" Francisco Jimenez showed responsibility at a young age.

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Evidence:
In the chapter "Home alone" Francisco is staying alone with his brother without his parents."Alone in the barrack, Roberto and I took care of regular chores. We made our bed, swept and mopped the floor, and fixed breakfast. My brother washed the dishes and I dried them and put them away. We left the house sparkling clean, just as we did every morning before heading off for school." (pg 20)
Reasoning:
It says that they always leave the house sparkling like always, every time they head out for school. They are very responsible, they both have jobs and they go to school. Also they are living by themselves without their parents while their parents are trying to live in America. Francisco and Roberto went so they could earn enough money to afford to bring the rest of the family. Their younger siblings and parents stayed with Papa's sister in Guadalajara, Mexico, until Roberto and Francisco could send enough money over time to bring everyone over.

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Claim #2: In his memoir "Breaking Through" Francisco Jimenez showed no fear leaving junior high school to go to high school.

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Claim #2: In his memoir "Breaking Through" Francisco Jimenez showed no fear leaving junior high school to go to high school.

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Evidence:
In the chapter "Saint Christopher Medal" Francisco Jimenez is not afraid to graduate instead he is excited and he kept thinking all about graduation on Saturday. He actually is not sad about leaving to another school again, he is excited.
Reasoning:
Francisco Jimenez was excited about leaving El Camino Junior High School and starting Santa Maria High School on time in the fall. During high school, Francisco worked hard at all his classes, but especially English and typing class because they were the two he had the hardest time keeping up with. For typing class in ninth grade, he fortunately came across an old typewriter at one of the law offices he cleaned. He practiced and got much better, ultimately getting a good grade in the class. For English class, Francisco worked closely with the teacher to correct his mistakes. He also practiced reading more, and wrote some of the poems and vocabulary lists he needed to memorize on a card he kept in his pocket so he could study while working.

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Claim#3 : In his memoir "Breaking Through" Francisco Jimenez showed sickness.

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Claim#3 : In his memoir "Breaking Through" Francisco Jimenez showed sickness.

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Evidence:
In the chapter " A Test of Faith" is about Francisco's bout with mononucleosis at the beginning of his senior year of high school. On the first day of school, Francisco woke up and was in so much pain that he could barely move from his bed. He called his mother into his room. She thought that it might be fatigue and so she told Francisco to stay in bed; she and Trampita took care of cleaning the Western Union office.
Reasoning:
The following day Francisco went to the doctor, who told Francisco that he had mononucleosis, or mono as it is often known. The remedy was to get plenty of rest, eat well, and drink a lot of water. Francisco stayed in bed for one week but then returned to school and work - with Trampita's help

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Breaking Through by Francisco Jimenez: Courage

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Breaking Through by Francisco Jimenez: Courage

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In the book "Breaking Through" by Francisco Jimenez, Francisco showed courage in the face of adversity when Francisco is staying alone with his brother without his parents."Alone in the barrack, Roberto and I took care of regular chores. We made our bed, swept and mopped the floor, and fixed breakfast. My brother washed the dishes and I dried them and put them away. We left the house sparkling clean, just as we did every morning before heading off for school." They always leave the house sparkling like always, every time they head out for school. They are very responsible, they both have jobs and they go to school. Also they are living by themselves without their parents while their parents are trying to live in America. Francisco and Roberto went so they could earn enough money to afford to bring the rest of the family. Their younger siblings and parents stayed with Papa's sister in Guadalajara, Mexico, until Roberto and Francisco could send enough money over time to bring everyone over. To me, that takes a lot of courage to stay by myself with just one brother and having to work so you can get money for your family to come to America. And also Francisco has to deal with his school work too.