Vocabulary
What does denounce mean?
Denounce means to call someone out in public and say they did something wrong.
Ji-li was born on this holiday.
What is Chinese New Year?
Ji-li was excited when she was chosen to audition for this.
What is the Liberation Army Arts Academy (dance troupe)?
Who were the main targets of writing the z boa
Teachers and Principals
Students were encouraged to write posters against their own teachers.
Accusations included being “counterrevolutionary,” “bourgeois,” or “favoring students with bad class backgrounds.”
In Red Scarf Girl, Ji-li’s class wrote one against Teacher Ke.
School Officials / Intellectuals
Educated people were seen as suspicious, because communism valued workers and peasants more than scholars.
Professors, writers, and scientists were often attacked as “bourgeois” or “elitist.”
Neighbors and Local Shopkeepers
Anyone who seemed to represent the “Four Olds” (old ideas, old culture, old customs, old habits).
For example, store owners with “fancy” or “prosperous” shop names, or people who dressed in Western-style clothes.
Sometimes Family Members
what is setting and name of the sign that was destroyed inthe four oldz chapter
Setting: The streets of Shanghai during the Cultural Revolution.
Sign destroyed: The “Great Prosperity Market” sign (and many others viewed as “Four Olds”).
What is communism?
Communism is an economic and political system where everyone is supposed to share everything equally.
In communism, the government owns businesses, land, and resources instead of individuals.
The idea is that there are no rich people and no poor people—everyone gets the same “fair share.
Ji-li’s name means these two things. Name at least one
What are lucky and beautiful?
This family connection ruined Ji-li’s chance to be a dancer.
What is her grandfather being a landlord?
A da-zi-bao is this kind of poster.
What is a big-character poster used to accuse people?
The “Four Olds” are these four things.Name at least 2
What are old ideas, old culture, old customs, and old habits?
Chinas army that help Mao and Communist leader take and keep power?
Liberation Army
As a child, Ji-li was chosen often as this type of student at school.
What is an outstanding / model student?
Ji-li’s rejection showed that this was more important than her talent.
What is family class background?
Ji-li and her friends wrote their da-zi-bao against this teacher.
Who is Teacher Ke?
What tool the man use to the destroy the sign in this chapter
The ax
The rich,stylish people
It means middle-class or wealthy people who care a lot about money, property, and comfort.
During the Cultural Revolution, it was used as an insult to describe people who seemed too focused on being rich, fancy, or having “capitalist” lifestyles.
How old was Ji Ling?
12 Years old in the 6th grade
What does tantalizing mean?
Tempting
This is the feeling Ji-li experiences when she realizes her class background matters more than her skill.
What is frustration / sadness / disappointment?
What did they do to the man pants in this chapter?
Cut the pants leg open
Who were the proletarian?
The word proletarian means a member of the working class—the people who do physical labor and don’t own businesses or land.
In communist ideas, the proletariat (all the working-class people together) were considered the “true heroes” of society.
who were the young pioneers?
She is described as a proud, model student who wears the red scarf, which represents the Young Pioneers, a group of loyal young communists.
Who told Ji-Ling "IT might be better not to do the audition"?
Her dad
What did Ji-Ling do while her aunt Xi-wen was getting confronting by the students?
She tried to hide
Ji-li watches in fear and shock. She feels helpless because she cannot stop what is happening.
She does not intervene physically because the Red Guards are aggressive and she is afraid for her own safety.
Emotionally, Ji-li feels guilt, sadness, and confusion, realizing how dangerous and unfair the Cultural Revolution has become, even toward family members.
Whay did Ji-Ling show about the man pants leg being cut open?
Compassion or sympathy