A Simple Act/from An Invisible Thread
from Mom & Me & Mom
Two Kinds
Mother to Son
To James
To James
New World Teachers
100
The setting of this story.
What is New York City.
100
Number of years that Maya was apart from here mom.
What was ten years.
100
This is the setting of the story.
What is San Francisco
100
This word means threw with force.
What is flung.
100
This husband and wife both worked here together until last year.
Who is Mr. and Mrs. Barbee.
200
Once each week.....
What is the schedule in which they (Maurice and Laura) met for dinner.
200
Maya traveled from this place to meet her mother in what place.
What was Stamps. Arkansas to San Francisco, California
200
The mom wanted her daughter to be like this 1930's film actress.
Who was Shirley Temple.
200
In the poem To James, these are the three words the mother says to the son......
What is Do you remember.....
200
This is the oldest teacher in the school.
Who is Mr. Crudup (67)
300
This is what Laura tells Maurice after he toasted her.
What is that she was the lucky one, she received as much from Maurice as he had from her.
Candy
300
This is a charitable person.
Candy
What is a philanthropist.
300
Old Chong suffered from this condition.
What was deafness.
300
In the poem Mother to Son, three things that mom says are on the staircase.........
What are tacks, splinters and boards.
300
This teacher has the youngest child.
Who is Mr. Madrigal.
400
Marcus was fascinated when he saw this on his visit to Long Island.
What was the dining room table at Laura sister's house.
400
This was something that Maya's experience in California that never happen in Arkansas
What was being kissed by her grandmother.
400
This person hosted a popular television show that Jing-Mei's mother watched.
Candy
Who (or what) is the Ed Sullivan Show
400
These two action words repeat throughout the poem.
What is running and racing.
400
This grade school teacher was once a former student at the school and has a child attending now.
Who is Ms. Zoie Contreras
500
This is the response Laura shares when people say Maurice was lucky to have met her.....
What is that she says she was lucky to meet him.
What is that she learned as much from Maurice as he learned from her,
500
The name of the place where Maya's mother stayed.
What was a boardinghouse.
500
Amy learns this when she played the piano after her mother dies.
What is that if she had put her mind to it, she could have played that piece.
500
The word that describes something that is used to describe something else......
What is symbolism.
500
This teacher has been a teacher longer than anyone else.
Who is Ms. Lalande.