Vocabulary
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Cambodia
Novel News
War O War
100
A crude and temporary home like the one Dara lived in
What is makeshift
100
To show excessive love- Jantu does this with Baby and Ms. Hudson does this with her dog Daisy!
What is to dote?
100
These are the two staples of Cambodian people
What is rice and fish?
100
She wrote the novel The Clay Marble after working at a refugee camp
Who is Mingfong Ho?
100
A person who flees his/her country to escape danger or war
What is a refugee?
200
Sounding loud, harsh, & commanding, for example Kung Silor
What is strident?
200
Jantu has these hands- gentle, quick, and skillful when she makes the dolls and toys out of clay
What is deft?
200
This military group took over Cambodia & caused four years of a reign of terror in the country?
What is the Khmer Rouge?
200
The novel the Clay Marble is told in this type of narrative- we know this because Dara is the narrator and the main character in the story.
What is first person?
200
Refugee camps provide this food allowance to refugees for the day- Dara and Jantu would always run to this truck
What is a ration?
300
Having feelings of doubt, distrust or fear- Dara had this when walking through the forest
What is have misgivings?
300
Children dying due to malnutrition is this for many Americans- very difficult or impossible to understand
What is incomprehensible?
300
Cambodia borders these three countries
What are Thailand, Laos, & Vietnam?
300
Mingfong Ho uses this writing technique to tell about events that took place earlier in time in order to explain the present story better.
What is flashback?
300
A war that involves fighting between people of the same country; this is the leading cause of refugees around the world
What is a civil war?
400
Menacing, threatening- the soldiers from Khmer Rouge and/or Darth Vader
What is ominous?
400
Douic represented kids from war who are victims of bombings and/or land mines- disable, disfigured, or injured
What is maimed?
400
This is an actual season in SE Asia, with high rainfall
What is monsoon season?
400
This is the entire message of The Clay Marble that the author was conveying in her novel
What is the "magic is in you"?
400
The refugee camp of Nong Chan provided these five basics to Dara and her family
What are: water, food, clothing, shelter, & medical help
500
Not injured or harmed- Dara and Jantu left the bombing of the ration truck this way, but Baby did not
What is unscathed?
500
Cambodians use these animals as transportation and farm labor: Part 2: Name three characteristics that separate oxen from regular male cows
What are oxen? What is: four years or older, castrated, & bred to work
500
These are fierce rainstorms that are an actual season in SE Asia
What are monsoons?
500
The Clay Marble is this type of fiction- interweaving real events of Cambodia with fictional characters
What is historical fiction?
500
Cambodia during the time of the novel is fighting for its independence and ability to self govern
What is sovereignty?
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