The Story
In this story, a city community in Cleveland comes together when they:
tend to a garden lot and create a garden.
The girl who started the garden because she wanted to connect with her father who died before she was born.
Who is Kim?
Another word for empty
What is vacant?
What character shows the fact that communication barriers can be broken?
Tio Juan
Mr. Myles
Sam
What does Kim plant?
What is lima beans?
Why doesn’t the city clean up the trash in the neighborhood?
it is a dangerous, poor neighborhood/ they do not drive through it
Who planted tomatoes in an attempt to get his ex girlfriend back
Who is Curtis?
a silvery fish that is most abundant in coastal waters
What is a herring?
Who said, "What is No one will pay attention to phone complaints, but they will to live, smelly trash!"
Who is Leona?
What is the name of Gonzalo's uncle?
Who is Tio Juan?
One thing the garden helps people accomplish in Seedfolks is:
What is overcoming their differences ?
What is overcoming loneliness?
( I will accept relevant responses)
Who couldn't leave her house for two years--she owns a dry cleaning business.
Who is Sae Young?
a remarkable concurrence of events or circumstances without apparent causal connection. Synonyms: accident,a happy chance,unexpected
What is a coincidence?
Who doesn't actually plant anything in the garden because she has arthritis?
Who is Florence?
This character doesn't actually plant anything in the garden because she has arthritis
Who is Florence?
How do the characters feel about each of their little plots?
What is proud and protective?
He is school janitor who helped Ana out when she twisted her ankle.
Who is Wendell?
A Persian word meaning walled garden
What is paradise?
What is a very important problem that the people who are planting in the garden have keeping the garden alive?
What is lack of water/getting enough water to the plants, so they can survive and grow.
What is an inference you can make about what will happen after the book ends?
The garden will continue and possibly get upgrades to the garden itself and the neighborhood.
What does the garden symbolize to many of the characters in Seedfolks?
What is hope?
What is family?
This teenager who sleeps in the community garden; he's homeless after his dad beat him and kicked him out
Who is Royce?
A grocery store, usually one that sells products from Latin-America
What is a Bodega?
Teenager who sleeps in the community garden; he's homeless after his dad beat him and kicked him out.
Who is Royce?
Where does Seedfolks take place? City and State.
What is Cleveland, Ohio?