Activity of text interpretation, aimed at students in the sixth year of elementary school, about the book “While My Hair Grows”. In this book, the protagonist Vera was very sad after her hair was cut very short… The hairdresser misunderstood what the girl's grandmother asked… But Vera ended up getting over it! Want to know how? so read the text hair grows and then, be sure to answer the various interpretative questions proposed!
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Hair grows. That's what I always think about every time I decide to change my look at the hair salon. And I change often! Sometimes regret arises. But he leaves quickly, along with the phrase: “Hair grows”. On many occasions, I have to say this even to the hairdresser: “Cut without fear. Hair grows”. But it was not always so.
When I was little, I had hair that reached my waist. It had almost always been that way since the strands started to grow. So, at age 9, I went to the salon determined to cut it. She wanted short hair and spiked, frizzy bangs. It was fashionable at the time. Needless to say, it got bad, right? Yes, I felt like crying. That's why I immediately identified with Vera, the girl from the book While My Hair Was Growing, a very cool story written by the Portuguese Isabel Minhós Martins and illustrated by Madalena […]
I think every girl has been through this one day, no? She's terrified of cutting our hair, as if we stopped being ourselves without all that length. Vera, the character in the story, was very sad. She didn't want to have cut it. It was hairdresser Mila who misheard her grandmother's comment. She understood “cut it short” instead of “cut it straight”. Vera was sad for two months. She went to the salon every Saturday with her grandmother and curled up in a corner. And from there I saw how a cut can change a person. And that changes are often good. And while she was waiting for her hair to grow back, she could see how much she grew herself, learning to live with the little tragedies, to accept herself and find fun in it. So he had no doubts: he asked for another short cut!
Oh, and me? It took me a little longer to build up that courage. I let my hair grow and spent my entire adolescence without touching the long strands. But I got sick of them. They were always the same, they always told the same story… So, I'm getting shorter hair again and already thinking about the next change. If that serves as an incentive for you too: hair grows!
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Question 1 - The text read is intended to:
( ) report a fact about haircut.
( ) promote the book “While My Hair Grows”.
( ) encourage people to cut their hair.
Question 2 - The author starts the text:
( ) with an everyday fact.
( ) with a personal report.
( ) with a fragment of the book.
Question 3 – In the passage “But he leaves quickly […]”, the term “he” refers to:
( ) to the hair.
( ) to the visual.
( ) to repentance.
Question 4 – According to the author, the phrase "cuts right" was said:
( ) by Vera.
( ) by Vera's grandmother.
( ) by Mila hairdresser.
Question 5 - According to the author, the character Vera was maturing while she waited for her hair to grow back. Identify the part of the text that proves this:
( ) "Vera was sad for two months."
() "She went to the salon every Saturday with her grandmother and was curled up in a corner."
( ) “[…] she can see how much she herself grew up, learning to live together […]”
Question 6 – In the segment “It gives us a real fear of cutting our hair, as if we stopped being ourselves […]”, the word “how” was used by the author of the text to:
( ) give an example.
( ) indicate a cause.
( ) make a comparison.
Question 7 – The author of the text exposes an opinion about the book “While My Hair Grows” in this fragment:
( ) “I don't need to say it got bad, right?”
( ) “[…] a very cool story written by the Portuguese Isabel Minhós Martins and illustrated […]”
( ) “And what changes are often good.”
Question 8 – Mark the fragment in which the author of the text talks directly with the reader:
( ) “When I was little, I had hair that reached my waist.”
( ) "I think every girl has been through this one day, no?"
( ) "So, I'm getting shorter hair again and already thinking about the next change."
By Denyse Lage Fonseca
Graduated in Languages and specialist in distance education.
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