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This book is about a girl named Miata Ramirez who always loses everything. One Friday she accidentally leaves her skirt on the bus and cannot get it back until the buses run again on the following Monday. It is not only any skirt, her mother actually wore it as a child when she lived in Mexico. It represented more than a skirt, it was an authentic part of her culture that she did not care enough about it to keep track of it. Not only does her mother not need to find out about this disaster, but Miata is supposed to wear it Sunday for her folklorico dance performance! She and her friend Ana sneak over to the buses and reached their arm inside to undo the lock as Miata's father walks in the parking lot to fix mechanical problems on one of the buses. He sees two girls run away, but does not notice it's his daughter. When they get home Miata and Ana lie about where they've been, saying they went to the library all day. Miata's mother brings home a new folklorico skirt for Miata to have as her very own, saying that the one she has now is worn out. Once Sunday comes Miata wears her new skirt, and as she dances it lifts up slightly to where her mom saw that she was wearing her old one under the new one! Her mother was very proud, and never even knew all the effort it took to get the old skirt back.
I would assign my class into reading groups by performance levels and I'd have this as a book for the group to read who are closest to this reading level of this book. After they read it as a group, I would show them how to make scratch-art using crayons. They will draw a folklorico skirt as shown on the cover and be sure to use red, green, and white, the colors of Mexico's flag. After they finish that I will suggest writing the Spanish words shown in the book and translating them to write their english equivalencies aside it. This will incorporate Spanish culture by teaching the flag's colors, as well as connecting the Spanish and English Language.
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