How Ernesto was feeling on his first day in Miss Ryan’s class? Cite three examples from the text to support your response.

Nervous:

Almost tiptoeing across the office, I maneuvered myself to keep my mother between me and the gringo lady.

Miss Ryan took me to a seat at the front of the room, into which I shrank—the better to survey her.

And when I least expected it, there she was, crouching by my desk, her blond radiant face level with mine, her voice patiently maneuvering me over the awful idiocies of the English language.