VOCABULARY
Enforce
What is to compel observance of or obedience to?
What is the theme of this story? Explain how Gordimer develops this theme through the story’s setting.
What is Theme, Setting, Evidence
Best describes the purpose of "A Quilt of a Country"?
What is to show that America consists of different pieces that work together
Question Type
What is a written response
Favorite Color
What is Royal Purple
Questioning Stance
What does the author think I already know?
What actions do the husband, wife, and their neighbors do again and again because of their fear of outsiders? How does this reveal the story’s theme?
What is the husband, wife, and neighbor's actions, and theme.
Best describes the purpose of "UNUSUAL NORMALITY "?
What is to explain how the past made the author appreciate his new life
Item needed
What is evidence
Favorite way to relax
What is Video Games
CONTRASTS AND CONTRADICTIONS
What is the presence of antonyms, or words with opposite meanings, in close proximity to one another
How does the text structure—a personal essay—enable the author to deliver his message effectively? Explain your answer using examples from the text.
What is text structure, message, evidence
Describe "Unusual Normatily's" voice and tone
What is observant and detached?
Synonyms - Watchful, aware, distant, reserved
T/F - there can be more than one
What is True
Birth State
What is Virginia
Authors Purpose
What is the reason why an author writes a text, typically to inform, persuade, entertain, or explain something to the reader?
Think about the Memory Moments you noticed during this story. What skills and habits did the author learn as a child soldier that helped him both in New York and in the paintball game?
What is memory moments, skills, and habits, also mention New York and Paintball Game.
The unfinished ending in "Once Upon a Time"
What is the author does not reveal whether the boy lives or dies?
The extended metaphor from "A Quilt of a Country"
What is the United States being compared to a Quilt?
How old am I
What is 28
Lesson Objective
What is the skill I am being asked to accomplish on any given lesson?
How can we come together despite our differences?
What is together and differences?
Mentor Text for Personal Essay
What is "Unusual Normality"?
Why is the Vietnam Wall being compared to a scar?
What is both represent pain and suffering?
What is 3.5 years