Definitions
Define notable.
Worth noticing, important
What is an idiom?
Saying one thing and meaning another.
What is one similarity between "Electric Boogaloo" and "Just Be Yourself?"
Answers may vary.
What are the repeating lines of "momma's in the bedroom, with the door closed" mean?
The one person who is supposed to be there for the author is not (aka the mom). The author feels alone.
How many days was the Apache coming of age ceremony?
4 days
Define majestic.
What does personification mean?
Giving human characteristics to non-human things.
How many days was the Apache coming of age ceremony?
4 days
“Memories once certain as rivets, become confused as awakenings” are lines in the story “Translating Grandfather’s House.” Why did we annotate them?
These lines represent a simile. The memories are permanent like the rivets in the house at first, but they are starting to become fuzzy. The author is starting to doubt the “permanent” memories.
What was the essential question that this unit was about?
Rites of passage
Define attribute.
Give the origin of, indicate cause of
What is symbolized by the pollen in the Apache ceremony?
It represents fertility.
What was inside the medicine bag?
Describe what Grandpa looked like when Martin’s friends met him the first time.
“He had on his red shirt, but today he also wore a fringed leather vest trimmed with beads. Instead of his usual cowboy boots, he has solidly beaded moccasins on his feet. Of course he has his old black hat on — he was seldom without it. But it had been proudly erect, its tip a bright white. His hair lay in silver strands over the red shirt collar.”
Change this sentence to passive voice.
Jack read that book.
That book was read by Jack.
Define stanza
A group of lines in poetry. A paragraph in poetry.
"Gallops on the lip, of the horizon"
What did Lila do that showed her maturity in Red Roses?
She put Derek's feeling first.
Why did the author of “Just Be Yourself” join so many clubs when she was a teenager?
The author was trying to find her talents and skills.
What did “dozen roses — red, long-stemmed, in a fluted paper” symbolize and cause people to assume in the story Red Roses?
Red roses symbolize romantic feelings typically. Derek made a scene and caused the narrator’s peers to make assumptions because of the color of the roses.
Define cadence.
The rhythm in the way someone speaks or something is written.
What does the idiom in "Hanging Fire" mean?
It represents the unexpected pause that occurs between pulling the gun's trigger and the shot going off. In this, it means waiting before taking action.
What are 4 big events that happened in Iron Shell's vision quest?
Went to the butte for 3 days, got a dream about the white man's iron, found a broken piece of an iron kettle, received his name, went to boarding school and became a blacksmith
How was the word “straggled” used in “The Medicine Bag?” What does it mean?
“I saw how his gray hair straggled from under his big black hat, which had a drooping feather in its crown.”
It means it hung in messy strands.
What does the pollen symbolize in the Apache ceremony? What does the white clay symbolize?
Pollen represents fertility. White clay represents the goddess.