"Four Skinny Trees"

Trees are often compared to people. In a vignette from the novel "The House on Mango Street" by Sandra Cisneros, a young narrator believes that four skinny trees are "the only ones who understand me."

Here are all the word lists to support the reading of Grade 12 Unit 1's texts from SpringBoard's Common Core ELA series: My Papa's Waltz, in just-, The Last Word, Mushrooms, I Remember, Invisible Man, Four Skinny Trees, Dirty Work, On Seeing England for the First Time, Speaking with Hands, The White Man's Burden, The Poor Man's Burden, Shooting an Elephant, Lindo Jong: Double Face, Stranger in the Village