Vocab
When a person in power tries to keep other people from having power (typical of a dictatorship)
What is oppression?
A person, place, thing, or idea
What is a noun?
What the government is censoring
What is the mail/letters?
The name of the terrorist organization in control of Afghanistan
Who is the Taliban?
What titles of short stories, speeches, and articles must have around them
What are quotation marks?
When people in power (the government) stop people from sharing certain information, ideas, art, or speech
What is censorship?
The type of verb that connects the subject to a word that describes it
What is a linking verb?
What happened to Juan at the end of the story
What is execution?
The names of the girls quoted in the article
Who are Arzou, Masouma, and Zahra?
Words like "however", "therefore", "also", "in conclusion" are...
What are transition words?
The definition of "persecute"
What is to treat someone cruelly or unfairly, often because of their race, religion, political views, or background
The part of speech that describes a verb, adjective, or another one of itself
What is an adverb?
The woman who Juan sent letters to
Who is Marianna?
The ethnic minority group all of the girls in the book club are part of
What is Hazaras?
How to begin a sentence with direct evidence in it
What is "In the text, the author states," (or something along the same vein)?
The definition of "disarmament"
What is the act of limiting or getting rid of weapons?
Find the direct object in this sentence:
The teacher taught a math lesson to the students.
What happened to another Censor in the first division Juan was sent to?
What is he got his arm blown off by an explosive?
The capital of Afghanistan, also where the book club takes place
What is Kabul?
What should go at the end of a sentence with a direct quote in it
What is a parenthetical citation (Author #)?
The speech this quote is from: “Let both sides seek to invoke the wonders of science instead of its terrors.”
What is JFK's "Inaugural Address"?
Another name for adjectives and adverbs
What is modifiers?
The division Juan eventually worked his way to (letter of the alphabet)
What is Division B?
The language "Anne Frank's Diary" is translated in for people in Afghanistan
What is Farsi?
The central argument or claim that your whole essay hinges on
What is the thesis statement?