definitions
about the story
compare/contrast
skill words
random
100
What word means skinny or thin
What is scrawny
100
What was the new addition to the village?
What is a new water pump
100
How did the village used to prepare for the rain?
What is they prepared the trees
100
What does it mean to compare?
What is to list the likenesses of two objects
100
Who was the narrator in the story?
Who is Fatima
200
What word means dry or thirsty?
What is parched.
200
Who was the first to use the new pump?
What is Fatima
200
Compare the old way of preparing for the rain to the new
What is they used to prepare the trees by digging holes around each, now there is no preparation
200
What does it mean to contrast two objects?
What is to list the differences
200
What is the "gourd" in the story?
What is the tree
300
What happens when water gushes out?
What is it comes out with force.
300
What tradition ended when the village got the new pump?
What is the preparing of the trees
300
How does Fatima react to the new pump?
What is she is happy
300
What does connotation mean?
What is the feeling a word gives you
300
What is the genre of the story?
What is realistic fiction
400
What does the word brimming mean?
What is almost overflowing
400
What did grandmother do when the pump broke?
What is she shared her water with the whole village.
400
Why do they let Fatima be the first to use the pump? How does the crowd react?
What is to show how easy it is and they chant and cheer.
400
Give at least 3 vocabulary words a positive or negative connotation
scrawny- neg gnarled- neg progress-positive
400
define realistic fiction
What is a story with fake characters or settings but that could actually happen.
500
Define gnarled, give an example
What is a rough or twisted look.
500
What is the authors message in the story?
What is progress is good but it doesn't necessarily replace and old tradition. Don't just rely on one way of doing things.
500
compare and contrast how Fatima and her grandmother react to the new pump? How do Fatimas feelings change
What is Fatima is happy and grandmother is sad, Fatima changes by becoming more accepting of the old ways.
500
Give an example of personification
What is the pump sang
500
What does the phase "that was then and this is now" mean
What is change your old ways and adapt to the new
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