Memoir Traits
Vocabulary
Bad Boy - The Early Years
Bad Boy - The Middle Years
Bad Boy - The End
100
This person is telling their own story
Who is the author
100

Blending diverse groups into society.

What is first integration?

100
The town Herbert and Florence left because interracial dating wasn't accepted
What is Baltimore
100
WDM best friend
Who is Eric
100
WDM high school
What is Stuyvesent High School
200
Most memoirs contain these, which almost always have a caption underneath of it.
What are photographs or pictures?
200

To have cared for, fed, supported, or encouraged the development of a person

What nurtured?

200

The person that taught Walter to read. 

Mama / FLorence Dean

200
WDM uncle who was literally beat to death
Who is Uncle Lee
200
what WDM and Frank had to deliver
What are drugs
300

True or False: A memoir tells the enire life story of a person in chronological order.

What is false?

300

Someone experiencing mental or emotional problems, or something that has been altered.

What is disturbed?

300

Although WDM could read exceptionally well, this is the reason he couldn't be skipped to 2nd grade

What is his speech problem

300
The park WDM used to sit and read in when he skipped school
What is Central Park
300
the question Dr. Holiday asked WDM
What is "Do You Like Being Black?"
400
This is an example of what memoir trait - "Go sit down and shut your mouth," said Mother. "But, I'm hungry," said Young Walter
What is dialouge
400

Something that interferes with a process or power (usually speech)

What is impediment?

400

This is was his punishment for fighting at school.

Going to the closet, back of the room or principal office

400
WDM nickname for Dorothy Dodson
What is the Wicked Witch of the West
400
WDM favorite baseball team
What is the Dodgers
500
The genre of literature that a memoir is most closely related to
What is autobiography
500

During the 1930's-40's, a time period of explosion of African American art, literature, music, and culture.

What is Harlem Renaissance?

500
What teacher was the first one to make WDM feel important and smart
Who is Mr. Irwin Lasher
500
the reason why the police officers came to the school
What is because they stole the bus
500
the city Frank went to after leaving Harlem
What is Philadelphia
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