Escape from Giza
A New Home
Vocabulary
Miscellaneous
The Money Goes Missing
100

Who are the Characters? 

Carlito, Dad, mom, Abuela and Maddie 

100

Who is the main character? 

Who is Lorna 

100

What is Resolution

the action of solving a problem, dispute, or contentious matter.

100

The narrator knows the thoughts and feeling of ONE character. 

What is Limited third person point of view. 

100

What is the most important idea? 

What is that is the student council is making an important announcement. 

200

When and where does the story take place? 

At 2:00 o'clock in New York at the Movie Theater. 

200

What are the feelings of Lorna? 

What is nervous and scared? 

200

What are Key Details? 

What is important information about characters, setting, problem, major events, and resolution.

200

Learned through the character thoughts, feelings and actions. 

What is point of view. 

200

Why is Mai-Lin angrier at George? 

What is because she is responsible for the Money and he was suppose to leave it at Mr. Hart's desk. 

300

What is a detail that helps you understands Carlito thoughts feelings and actions?  

What is he admires historical artifacts very much. 

300

What happens in the exposition of the story? 

Lorna learns that her family is leaving the farm and moving to Detroit. 

300

What does Explicitly mean? 

What is stated clearly and in detail in the text; right there. 



300
Name the four types of Accounts. 

What is Personal letters, Interviews, Diaries and Memories. 

300

Who is the best problem solver? And Why? 

Kalisha is the best problem solver because she stays calm and ask George to tell her everything he did that morning. 

400

How does the setting change throughout the story? 

What is from realistic present to fantasy past.  

400

What is the problem in A New Home? What paragraph supports your answers? 

What is She was was nervous for the new move and also her father was to. In paragraph 7 Lorna watch her father Tremble. 

400

what is an  Interaction? 

What is what happens between characters in a story.

400

Written by the someone with knowledge of an event or topic but who did NOT experience it. 

What is a second hand account. 

400

What is the structure of this text?  

What is a Drama. 

500

How does Maddie change from the beginning to the end of the story? 

What is she becomes more of a dreamer. 

500

What is the theme of A new home? 

A. Learning Lesson

B. A hard Future 

C. New Beginnings 

What is C.  New Beginnings 

500

What is description?  

What is describe in detail people, places, and events in order to bring them alive in a vivid way. 

500

Plot that progress chronologically and ends with the characters returning to a situation like the one at the beginning of the story. 

What is Circular. 

500

What is the meaning of the word admiration as used in paragraph 3?  

What is respect or esteem. 

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