Vocabulary
Information about Zlata
Nonfiction Terms
Critical Information
Miscellaneous Information
100
a painful difficulty
What is hardship?
100
Mimmy
What is the name of Zlata's diary?
100
in time order
What is chronological?
100
Where Zlata and her parents go to escape gunfire
What is the cellar?
100
Why the airport, train stations, and bus stations are packed.
What is people are leaving Sarajevo because of the war?
200
the ideas and activities involved in government
What is politics?
200
The name of the city and country to where Zlata and her family escaped.
What is Paris, France?
200
the way something is done
What is style?
200
The word Zlata uses to describe her parents when they are nervous and frightened.
What is edgy?
200
The city where Zlata and her family live.
What is Sarajevo?
300
to focus on one area of work
What is specialize?
300
What Zlata thought was "the worst thing in the world."
What is war?
300
a journal of personal thoughts
What is a diary?
300
Their bedrooms are not safe because of the shooting.
Why do Zlata and her parents sleep on mattresses in the sitting room?
300
The country in which Zlata and her family live.
What is Bosnia?
400
a researcher and writer of articles
What is journalist?
400
What Zlata said was missing on her birthday.
What is peace?
400

the audience for a diary

Who is the writer?

400
Zlata is sad about her friend Nina.
What is Nina was killed?
400
The original purpose of Zlata's Diary
what is, it was to be Zlata's personal treasure recording the happy days of her childhood
500
attacked with explosives
What is shelled?
500
December 3, 1980
When was Zlata born?
500

the author's attitude toward the topic

What is tone?

500
Why journalists and reporters from all over the world visit Zlata.
What is they are interested in the diary she has kept?
500
The two sections of town Zlata compares and contrasts.
What are the new sections and the middle of town?
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