Plot Stuff
Where the farmer hides his mother after she turns seventy-one.
Where is under his house?
The type of place Yoshiko Uchida and her family were forced intowhile she was in college.
What is an internment camp?
The details that need to be included in a setting.
What are time and place?
Explain the difference between internal and external conflict.
What is internal conflict comes from within a character while external conflict comes at them from the world around them?
The kind of conflict found primarily in "The Wise Old Woman."
What is external conflict?
The way Alfonso breaks his bike chain (be specific about condition).
What is cleaning the chain when it is already clean?
The age at which Gary Soto's father passed away.
What is six?
What a story has to feature to be a folktale.
What is a lesson?
Explain the difference between indirect and direct characterization.
What is direct characterization is told to you by the author while indirect characterization is when something is shown to you and you interpret it?
The reward the cruel young lord offered the village if they solved Lord Higa's riddles.
What is gold?
The person who mends the "broken chain" in their relationship with Alfonso by saving the day.
Who is Ernie?
What Gary Soto thought was important to recreate about childhood.
What is the little/unimportant/real moments of childhood?
The kind of characterization shown in the quote "Alfonso didn't want to be the handsomest kid at school, but he was determined to be better-looking than average."
What is direct characterization?
Explain how once life event of either author influenced their writing.
What is [something too specific to put in this little set of brackets]?
How Alfonso and Sandra went on their date.
What is riding the same bike?
The famous musician who Alfonso wanted his hair to look like.
Who is Prince?
What Yoshiko Uchida studied besides folktales/writing.
What is folk pottery?
The term for how folktales were passed down.
What is an oral tradition?
Draw and fill out a S.T.E.A.L. Chart describing a character from "The Broken Chain."
What is a very well-filled out chart, I'm sure?
Which kind of characterization involves more work on the part of the reader.
What is indirect characterization?
Write out, in the proper order, all three of Lord Higa's riddles and their solutions.
What is: 1) 1,000 ropes of ash–soaking ropes in salt water and burning them
2) Weaving a silk thread through a winding long and tying the string to an ant
3) A drum that plays itself and what is sealing a bee in a drum?
The state Yoshiko Uchida was born in.
Where is California?
The different areas that "The Wise Old Woman" and "The Broken Chain" focused on in their writing.
What is "The Wise Old Woman" focused on action/story while "The Broken Chain" focused on character?
Explain three specific points of comparison/contrast between the two works of this unit.
What is [basically your essay]?
Explain a lesson from both stories.
What is [something something family something something wisdom]?