Author Info
The authors' names and which story they wrote
Yoshiko Uchida: "The Wise Old Woman"
Gary Soto: "The Broken Chain"
The way the village must deal with their elderly
What is leaving them on a mountain?
What we call a story created in popular culture designed to teach a lesson.
What is a folktale?
What is external conflict originates from the world/outside of the character and internal conflict originates from within the character?
What is writing it down/collecting it?
The family member Gary Soto lost when he was six years old
Who is his father?
What is seventh grade?
What we call a book that a person has written to be a factual depiction of their own life.
What is an autobiography?
The difference between indirect and direct characterization.
What is direct characterization is told to the reader and indirect characterization sees the reader interpret the character?
The two requirements for what a setting is.
What is the time and place?
The name of the program that separated Yoshiko Uchida and her family from other American citizens during WWII.
What are internment camps?
The reward the cruel young lord offered for the solving of the riddles.
What is gold?
What makes something a short story.
What is to be read in one sitting?
List and label the parts of a S.T.E.A.L. chart.
WOW
The holiday during which Ernie and his friends met the girls who'd stood them up.
What is Halloween?
The parts of childhood Gary Soto focuses on in his writing.
What are the little/unimportant parts of childhood?
Why Alfonso thought Sandra couldn't be the girl who stood Ernie up.
What is she was too nice?
What is verbally/by word of mouth/by oral tradition?
Write out two sentences where you explain how a specific life event for one of the authors influenced their writing.
What is something specific?
The two authors and their cultures.
What is Yoshiko Uchida–Japanese American
Gary Soto–Mexican American
The cultural element Yoshiko Uchida studied in school
What is folk pottery?
List the three trials/riddles in "The Wise Old Woman" (in their proper order) and how each one is solved.
What is: one thousand ropes of ash (soaked in salt water and burned)
string strung through a log (tie a string to an ant)
drum that plays itself (put a bee in a drum)?
What we call the methods authors use to create characters in works of literature.
What is characterization?
List out three points of comparison/contrast (one of each and then a third selection which can be either).
What is {this answer is too big for me to guess}?
What is a lot of problems and feelings?