Vista Language Arts Lessons

Too Much Peanuts-Muchos Cacahuates I used to look forward to having my grandmother's capirotada in the early spring.  I didn't understand the religious/historical significance until I was a full grown-long-ago- college- graduate.  I recall one of the last times I had capirotada at my grandmother's house.  I was probably fifteen almost sixteen at the time.  The image was a kitchen  all in Irish plaid with dark shadows of the fall. The future shined through the living room window over the Early American sofa. The capirotada was still kind of the same-too many peanuts for me.  Almost every spoonful seemed like it was 80% peanuts-cacahuates.  When writing creatively it is okay to play with the grammar and combine different languages.    

  Memoirs are memories by an author that are based on their own world view.  These ideas can be seeds for the story that will be told.  Alberto Rios- Is an American author born in Nogales, Arizona a border town right on the edge of the Mexican border.  His father, Alberto Rios, Sr., was born in Mexico near the Guatemala border and his mother Agnes Fogg Rios, was born in England.  His parents met while Alberto Sr. was in the army during World War II.  Capirotada- Is a memoir by Alberto that describes his upbringing in Nogales, Arizona in the l950's-1960's. Capirotada is a Mexican dessert -like a bread pudding that is made of a melange of ingredients which vary based on the family.  It is usually served during lent.  The Lemon Story When I was about four, or maybe five, my parents bought a new house in what would become a small suburb of Nogales, Arizona on the border of Mexico, some four miles outside of town.  My father was born in Mexico, on...