Vocabulary
The Blues
It happened in the story
Walter Dean Myers
Potpourri
100
old, run-down apartment house
What is a tenement?
100
a mouth fiddle
What is the harmonica?
100
Greg's favorite sport that he cannot play because of his grades
What is basketball?
100
Where he grew up
What is Harlem?
100
The team Greg wants to play on
What is the Scorpions?
200
You would buy ingredients for arroz con pollo here.
What is a bodega?
200
This is the part of the country where Sweet Lemon Brown performed.
What is the South?
200
Lemon Brown teaches Greg that this kind of person has learned important lessons in life.
What is an older person?
200
The state where he was actually born
What is West Virginia?
200
The type of box Lemon Brown pulled clothes from
What is the Salvation Army?
300
hesistantly; with uncertainty
What is tentatively?
300
The lead act in a show, something Lemon Brown was not, but he was still popular
What is a headliner?
300
The conflict that Greg and Lemon Brown share
What is facing a group of scalawags?
300
The person who told him some great stories when he was 12
Who is his grandfather?
300
Lemon Brown knows his son loved him because of this.
What is the fact that Jesse saved his father's old harmonica and newspaper clippings of his hit performances (his treasure) while he was in the war?
400
left alone
What is abandoned?
400
"You don't give up the blues; they do this."
What is "they give you up?"
400
How Jesse died, according to Lemon Brown
What is he was killed in the war?
400
The year the author was born plus three years
What is 1940?
400
What Walter Dean Myers creates to help him visualize his characters-- spell this word
What is C-O-L-L-A-G-E?
500
Spell this railing along a staircase.
What is b-a-n-i-s-t-e-r?
500
The blues artist Mrs. Berthiaume played in class
Who is Bo Diddley?
500
The theme of the story
What is the value of a treasure cannot be measured in dollars?
500
He interviewed them when he conducted research in NY and NJ.
What are prison inmates?
500
fear to curiosity to respect
What are the feelings Greg has for Lemon Brown, which change throughout the story?
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