Answering Questions
What was the main characters name?
Ping
What does tended mean?
He tended to his garden everyday.
To take care of regularly.
What happened in the Beginning of the story?
The emperor needed to choose a successor
What is a question you could ask BEFORE reading a text?
Examples of some questions:
1. Why is the boy holding a pot?
2. What is the story about?
Main character?
Ping
Where in China is the story?
In a kingdom.
What is an Emperor?
The Emperor needed to choose a successor to take his throne.
A leader.
Someone who rules a kingdom.
What happened at the end of the story?
Ping ended up being the successor because he did not cheat his seed.
What is a question you asked yourself DURING the reading?
Examples of some questions:
1. Who is the Emperor going to choose as his successor?
2. What was the special seed?
Setting?
In China.
What did Ping and others in the kingdom enjoy?
Flowers
What is a successor?
He needed to choose a successor to take his throne.
Someone next in line to take the lead.
What happens in the middle of the story?
*Think of the problem*
Ping's seed would not grow.
What is a question you could ask AFTER reading the book?
Question ranges.
Problem?
Ping couldn't grow his special seed from the Emperor.
What did the air smell like?
Perfume.
What does eagerly mean?
They rushed to the palace with their beautiful flowers eagerly hoping to be chosen?
wanting something really bad.
What was wrong with the seeds that the Emperor gave out?
They were cooked!
What is a question that we could ask Ping?
Question Ranges, as long as they ask the main character (Ping)
Solution to the problem?
Ping was truthful about growing his seeds, others faked their flowers.
How did the emperor choose his successor?
By giving every child a seed.
What does exclaimed mean?
Then he exclaimed one and all, "I have found him!"
Yelling unexpectedly.
How did Ping react when she saw others flowers bloom and look pretty?
He felt sad, and left out.
He was ashamed.
What is a question we could ask about the Emperor?
Question ranges.
What was the story's message?
Be truthful.
Don't let others influence you.