New Kid
American Born Chinese
Breakthrough
Vocabulary
Leo and Jasmine
100

The name of Jordan's new school.

What is Riverdale Academy Day School?

100
The Monkey King was born from this hard substance.

What is a rock?

100

This antagonistic person, often seen during ASM, wears a leather jacket.

Who is Tommy Thunder?

100

Graphic Novel

What is a novel in comic format, with many drawings as well as words?

100

This academic subject is taught by both Jasmine and Leo.

What is ELA?

200

This person got the starting quarterback position for the school.

What is Drew

200

This red mark signifies the beginning of each new chapter.

What is a stamp?

200

This game-filled day occurs at the end of every week at Breakthrough.

What is Fun Friday?

200

Identity

What are the qualities, beliefs, personality, looks, and expressions that make a person or group.

200

This fishy food is both Jasmine's and Leo's favorite!

What is sushi?

300

Maury's nickname and the reason he is called this.

What is Maury-O because he "acts black on the outside but white on the inside"?

300

This Californian city is where Jin comes from.

What is San Francisco?

300

This is the definition of K.A.C.H.O.W.

What is Kindness and Courage Heal Our World?

300

Diversity 

What is having different types of people in a group, such as people of different races, cultures, identities, and abilities?

300

This number is what you get when you add Jasmine and Leo's ages together.

What is 41?

400

Name one neighborhood on Jordan's ride to school.

What is Washington Heights, Inwood, or Kingsbridge

400

This 2-word identity is the author's and Jin's ethnicity (not race!).

What is Taiwanese American

400

This place, up high, is where all the Breakthrough teachers live.

What is the 4th floor?

400

Deity

What is a god or goddess, or a divine being?

400

Jasmine and Leo are studying these fields in college (name 2).

What is Elementary Education, ESL, Educational Policy (Jasmine) and Philosophy, Politics, and Economics (Leo)?

500

This is the final score of the soccer game in chapter 5.

What is Home: 11 points and Guest: 1?

500

Talking to the herbalist's wife, Jin says he wants to become this.

What is a transformer?

500

This name, beginning with Q, is this full first name of our Breakthrough Student Services Director.

What is Quashingm?

500

Stereotype

What is an oversimplified image or idea of a group of people or things?

500

Jasmine and Leo go to these 2 colleges.

What is Claremont McKenna College (Leo) and University of Wisconsin-Madison (Jasmine)?

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