The Medicine Bag
Why did the grandpa come to visit?
What is to pass on the medicine bag to his grandson?
What is because he is going to die soon and needs to continue the tradition?
Martin needs to pick sage from the prairie. What part of speech is "prairie"?
What is a noun?
What were the women on strike for?
What is better working conditions, 52 hour work weeks (less hours), overtime pay and a living wage?
What are the two types of characterization?
What is indirect and direct characterization?
What is abdicate?
Why didn't Martin want his friends to meet his grandpa?
What is he was worried that they would laugh at him?
What is he was worried because his appearance wouldn't line up with the stories that they had told their friends?
Grandpa traveled from South Dakota. What part of speech is "traveled"?
What is a verb?
How many people ended up showing up?
What is about 30,000 workers?
What are the two types of conflict?
What is internal and external?
The build up of something over time, reaching the peak
What is culmination?
Where did Grandpa live?
What is Rosebud Reservation in South Dakota?
What is a pronoun?
What does a closed shop mean?
What is only union members can work in a closed shop?
What is:
Character vs self
Character vs character
Character vs society
Character vs nature
A quick way to do something but that might not be moral or "good"
What is expedient?
What three items did Grandpa carry in the medicine bag?
What is a pebble from the butte, a piece of the broken iron kettle and sacred prairie sage?
What is a proper noun?
What does ILGWU stand for?
What is International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union?
What type of characterization is this?
His hair wasn’t in braids but hung in stringy, gray strands on his neck, and he was old.
What is direct characterization?
To relieve from blame or charges
What is exonerate?
Why is Martin the one receiving the medicine bag?
What is the tradition says it must go to the oldest male and Grandpa's son died in a faraway place without the medicine bag and only had a daughter, leaving Martin as the oldest male?
Iron Shell Joe was given the vision of the white man's iron. What part of speech is "of"?
What is a preposition?
When the union meetings turned to classrooms, what was being taught? Name at least 2.
What is labor history, principles of unionism, Robert's Rules of Order, what a union or closed shop was, how to avoid arrest on the picket lines, what to do if arrested and the meaning of the word "solidarity"?
What kind of characterization is in this passage?Grandpa laughed. “I would’ve known if anyone tried to take the boots off my feet. The money is what I’ve saved for a long time—a hundred dollars— for my funeral. But you take it now to buy groceries so that I won’t be a burden to you while I am here.”
What is indirect characterization?
Friendship, brotherhood, mutual trust
What is camaraderie?