Jacket 1
How did the narrator feel about the jacket when he first saw it?
Disappointed
Which piece of evidence best supports your answer to the the question about how girls responded to his jacket? #5
Even the girls who had been friendly blew away like loose flowers to follow the boys in neat jackets.
From what point of view is the "The Jacket" told?
a. First Person
C. Third Person Limited
A. First Person
What is theme?
Moral or lesson of a story
What is second person?
Uses you and your
Which piece of evidence best supports your answer to the previous question?
I wanted to cry because it was so ugly and so big that I knew I'd have to wear it a long time.
By the end of the story, how do the narrators feelings change about the jacket?
The narrator finally accepts the jacket as his.
Which excerpt from the story does not contain imagery or sensory details?
a. we were in the kitchen, steam on the windows from her cooking
d. The next day I wore it to sixth grade and got a D on a math quiz.
D. The next day I wore it to sixth grade and got a D on a math quiz.
What is tone?
How the author feels
Third person
Is outside of the story. Uses he, she, or they.
For how many years did the narrator have to wear the jacket?
Three years
Which piece of evidence best supports your answer about how his feelings change toward the jacket? #7
Later, however, I swiped the jacket off the ground and went inside to drape it across my lap and mope.
Which excerpt shows how the narrator's mother feels about his jacket?
a. I showed the cracks to my mother, who always seemed to be at the stove with steamed up glasses, and she said that there were children in mexico who would love the jacket.
d. From the kitchen mother yelled that my jacket was in the closet. I closed the door to her voice and pulled at the rack of clothes.
A
What is mood?
How the reader feels
Text Evidence
Evidence that can be found in the text to support an answer.
Which piece of evidence best supports your answer to the previous question?
I wore that thing for three years until the sleeves grew short and my forearms stuck out like the necks of turtles.
What is the genre of "The Jacket"?
memoir
What is the main conflict in "The Jacket?
A. The narrator believe that his ugly jacket is the cause of everything negative.
B. The narrator suffers bullying at school because of his ugly jacket.
A.
Who is a narrator?
the person telling the story
Explicit
Says it word for word in the text
According the the narrator, how did the girls he knew respond to his jacket?
The girls began to pay more attention to boys in nicer jackets.
Why does the narrator want to cry when he first sees the jacket?
He is devastated that the jacket is so ugly.
What is the theme of this story?
Life isn't always rainbows and butterflies
Be thankful for what you have
Be thankful for what you have
What is first person?
the narrator is telling the sotry from their own point of view. I, me, my, mine
Inference