Outside Reading
Graphic Novels
Plot
Characters
Motif
100

The excerpt we read from Richard Wright's book, Black Boy, took place in this city.

What is Memphis.

100
The space between panels.
What is the gutter.
100
This item was taken away from Geoff's brother in the first chapter.
What is a jacket.
100
He served as Geoff's mentor.
Who is Mike.
100
The reason that Geoff's brothers went back for the jacket. Also the reason Geoff and the other boys from Union Ave fight, even when they don't want to.
What is that it is better than the alternative.
200

Using You Just don't Understand! Women and Men in Conversation by Deborah Tannen, Mr Junge claimed that the male social structure often arranges itself like this object.

What is a ladder

200
A picture that stretches across the whole page.
What is splash.
200
The picture of a broken pencil came the page before a picture of what building?
What is Public School 99, or Geoff's elementary school.
200
Taught a lesson early in the book, he later fights a man described as at least 6'3, 300 lbs.
Who is Kevin.
200
The way the boys on Union Ave debrief after something big happens.
What is nothing, or acting like nothing happened.
300

Richard Wright's mom gave him this object to protect himself with, when he was going to the grocery store.

What is a stick

300
A picture that utilizes two pages of the graphic novel.
What is a spread
300
Geoff found this model of knife in the gutter.
What is a K55.
300
He was 'stretched' and beaten up for not being willing to fight.
Who is Butchie.
300
The perceived reason that Geoff wants to develop his capacity for violence, and to get better weapons.
What is freedom, or an ability to move freely.
400

According to Tage Rai, most violence can be explained by this idea.

What is that the people committing the violence do it because they believe it is the moral thing to do?

400
The order in which material on a page of a graphic novel should be read or consumed.
What is left to right and top to bottom.
400
Geoff and Melvin play this board game together.
What is checkers.
400
The profession of the man who was chased by a girl with a rifle.
What is a Numbers Man.
400
A goal of Geoffrey Canada in writing Fist Stick Knife Gun, this word describes the ability of one to understand and share the feelings of another.
What is empathy.
500

According to Tage Rai, this is one of the most consistent and robust findings in criminology. 

What is that increasing punishment for a crime does not lead to decreasing incidents of the crime?

500
Teardrops, sweat drops, question marks, or other lines that artists draw besides characters' faces to portray emotion.
What is emanata.
500
The boy who took Geoff's change in chapter 2 had what distinguishing physical feature?
What is ringworm on his head.
500
The name of Geoff's oldest brother.
What is Dan.
500
According to the article we read in class, and as seen in this memoir, this word or idea helps explain why people continue to be violent, even though they are not psychopaths.
What is morality, or the belief that what they are doing is the moral thing to do.
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