Creepy Rock
라밤바
The Gold Cadillac
보캐뷰러리
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100
What is the genre of the story?
It is a folktale.
Part II
What is a folktale?
100
Explain the exposition of the story.
Character(s) & Plot - Manuel is an attention hungry boy, who is going to enter his school's talent show by singing and dancing to "La Bamba," even though he has stage frights.
Setting: The story takes place in fall at the school's talent show.
100
What happens in the beginning of the story and how does the family feel about it?
Dad buys a gold Cadillac after selling his old car and the mother is angry about this because they were supposed to be saving up money to buy a new house in a better area.
100
Although Ms. Julia proclaims to be the best teacher in Korea, we know that this is not true because she is the best teacher in the world!
What does proclaim mean?
a. to put into writing
b. to believe
c. to say in a dumb way
d. to announce officially or publicly
D
100
The moment Ms. Julia doze off instead of doing her work, she was seen by the terrifying Mr. Eric.
What does doze mean?
a. to sleep lightly
b. to go into deep sleep
c. REM sleep
d. to die
200
Who are the characters in the story? Describe the characters.
Boy - hunts animals until a random rock decides to tell him stories
Stone - creepy rock that is somehow able to tell stories to little boys
200
How can you predict that something bad will happen at the day of the talent show?
Mr. Roybal is trying to fix the record player and promises to make sure there will be nothing wrong, even if he had to bring his own from home.
From this, you can foreshadow that there is no chance that there will be a working record player on the day of the talent show.
200
Although the mother was angry, what does the narrator think will happen and why?
The narrator thinks that by going on rides to places, her mother would finally forgive her father and they would make up.
Part II
Does this happen? What happens?
200
Batman only appears as dusk approaches because of his fear of the sun.
What does dusk mean?
a. when the Joker appears
b. in the afternoon
c. the time when it grows dark
d. the time when the sun comes up
200
Being the uppity person Mr. Eric is, he always told his teachers that they were all ugly.
What does uppity mean?
a. acting arrogant or as if you are more important than other
b. to think of yourself below others
c. to be generous and gracious in the most pleasant way possible
d. to not care about anything in the world
A
300
To hear the stone's stories, what did the boy have to do?
Part II
What did the boy offer?
300
When does Manny drop his record and why?
He dropped it across the cafeteria floor because he was surprised by how loud Benny blew his trumpet.
300
Where do the family decide to go on the new car and what happens on the way?
The family decides to go to Mississippi and two policemen arrest the father.
Part II
Why did the policemen do this?
300
It was evident that nobody was sitting next to Ms. Julia in the subway because she was white.
What does evident mean?
a. plain or obvious
b. simple and clean
c. weird and annoying
d. kind or polite
A
300
Mrs. Julia was choking and tried to ask for help, but no one helped because everyone thought she was acting out a __________. This leaded to her tragic death.
What goes in the blank? What does it mean?
a. scene
b. crime
c. pantomime
d. telepathy
400
How long did it take the stone to tell all of its stories and what happened to the boy afterwards?
It took the stone four years and the boy became a famous storyteller.
400
What happens on the day of the show?
As expected, Manny's record got stuck, so he had to sing Para Bailar la bamba over and over again.
Part II
What was the result of this unfortunate event?
400
What are some examples of racism in the story?
white police officers - arresting dad for no reason at all
sign - "White Only, Colored Not Allowed."
Rosa Parks - back of the bus
Bonus - apartheid
400
When a student scuffed Mr. Ken's brand new Air Jordan, he was ready to engage in corporal punishment.
What does scuff mean?
a. to punch something
b. to completely destroyed something
c. to fix something
d. to scrape something
D
Bonus
What does corporal punishment mean?
400
The whole class was _________ by Ms. Britnie's unbelievable performance of "La Bamba."
a. disgusted
b. fabulous
c. clapping
d. enthralled
500
What does the old woman tell the sky people about and what happens afterwards?
She tells them about a large tree with white blossoms when the tree in the center of the village is dug up by its roots. After the sky people dug it up, they saw that there was only a hole and the earth was underwater, so they threw her into it out of anger.
500
Why is this story a short story?
It is because it is more than five pages, but under twenty pages long.
Part II
What is the difference between a novel and novella?
500
In the end, what does 'lois's mom tell her dad to do and what happens and why?
Her mom tells her dad to keep the car, but he ends up selling it because he realized that the family was more important than the Cadillac.
500
Kyle took a ________ at the new girl in class because he was ________ at her beauty.
a. look, disgusted
b. glare, surprised
c. glance, marveled
d. stare, unbelievable
C
500
How many stripes and stars are there on the flag of the United States of America?
