Author Facts
Which author of the shorter selections was the
first National Youth Poet Laureate?
Who is Amanda Gorman?
Who is Harold
This character raised Angel during her childhood and helped shield her from her mother’s rage.
Who is Bush?
This theme is considered theme 5:
Finding ________ in the face of _________ catastrophe
What is finding hope in the face of ecological catastrophe?
This poem contains the excerpt "
On Christmas Eve, 1968, astronaut Bill Anders
Snapped a photo of the earth
As Apollo 8 orbited the moon."
What is "Our purpose in Poetry; or Earthrise" by Amanda Gorman
Which of the authors of the shorter selections
teaches at Texas State University?
Who is Naomi Shibab Nye
A year after the main events of the book, Angel is
in the city and runs into one of the native people,
in town to go to court. Whom does she run into in
the city?
Who is "Tulik"
This character focuses immensely on scientific understanding combined with Indigenous spirituality
Who is John Husk?
Theme four: Remembering the __________
What is wilderness?
This short selection focuses on a gameshow in which those in power punish everyday citizens
What is "The Toxic Donut"
Which of the authors of the shorter selections
wrote a famous short story called “Bears
Discover Fire”?
Who is Terry Bisson
After Agnes dies, what does the family do with
her body?
What is "they push her out to float"
This term describes the ways in which women's experiences can be revealed and understood through nature/environmental issues
What is ecofeminism?
Theme two: land _____, and ________
What is profit and power?
Excerpt:
"
One will live to see the Caterpillar rut everything
they walk on—seacliff buckwheat cleared, relentless
ice plant to replace it, the wild fields bisected
by the scenic highway, canyons covered with cul-de-sacs,
gas stations, comfortable homes, the whole habitat
along this coastal stretch endangered, everything,"
What is "The Blue"
Which of the authors of the shorter selections has
won the Neustadt Prize for Children’s Literature?
Who is Naomi Shibab Nye?
When Angel and the others arrive at Holy String
Town, they find there has been a sudden attempt
to drill and mine the land. Why are the companies
urgently trying to drill and mine?
What is "to extract resources before it is all flooded"
A tribal judge and elder, this character leads protests against the dam builders
Who is Tulik?
The moment when Angel overcomes the fracturing of her life occurs when ____________
she engages in a boat trip with Dora Rouge
Excerpt:
"
Branches above me full of pine needle
whips: when the river rock is done
with me, I could belong to the evergreen.
Safety is a rock I throw into the river.
My body, ready. Don’t even think
a train run through this town anymore."
What is "Evergreen"?
Which of the authors of the shorter selections was
an editor of the New Yorker?
E.B. White
This river wis where the women travel on their trip north
The Se Nay River
This character represents hope in Solar Storms
The novel focuses on renewal. This is best understood through repeated imagery throughout the novel that focuses on _________
Robin Wall Kimmerer writes that the “secret
of happiness” came to her while she was doing
what?
What is "picking beans"?