Question

pierre is a student who does not understand the following sentence from cristina garcias dreaming in cuban.
lourdes buys a round box of sticky dates and considers the centuries of fratricide converging on this street corner in brooklyn. she ponders the transmigrations from the southern latitudes, the millions moving north.
which strategy would best help pierre understand the excerpt?
○ relating the sentence to personal experience
○ slowing down to break up the long sentence
○ looking up unfamiliar words in the sentence
○ reading the sentence out loud to himself

Explanation:

The excerpt contains specialized, potentially unfamiliar terms like "fratricide" and "transmigrations" that are key to grasping its meaning. Looking up these unknown words directly addresses the core barrier to understanding the sentence's thematic and literal content. Other strategies do not target the specific issue of unfamiliar vocabulary that likely confuses Pierre.

Answer:

looking up unfamiliar words in the sentence