Book Structures
What is cause and effect?
Explains why something happened or the results of something that happened.
What is Dialogue?
A conversation or the actual words spoken by an individual to another written with quotation marks.
What did William have for Christmas dinner?
Goat Skin.
What does Famine mean?
Lack of food, Starvation, and or extreme hunger.
What object were William and Geffory tinkering with to understand electricity?
A radio.
What is Chronological Sequential?
Relates a sequence of events or steps in a process in the order they happened.
"Let them, I thought. It was time"
What type of author's method is this?
Inner thoughts.
What is William's dog name?
Extreme or very serious.
What did people ask William and Geffory to fix.
Their radios.
what is Comparison/Contrast?
Examines how two people, events, or ideas are similar and different.
What is an Anecdote?
A short or interesting story.
What is William going to build?
A windmill.
What does inference mean?
To make an educated guess based on resources.
What country in Africa does William live in?
He lives in Malawi.
Describes a problem that needs to be solved and explores one or more solutions
What is description?
What language do they speak in Malawi?
Chichewa.
What is a simile?
A comparison of two things using "like" or "as".
What does William want to become when he is older?
A scientist.
What is an example of problem/solution in our book?
William's village is suffering from lack of food and water. Willaim solves the critical problem by building a windmill.
Which Author's method was the Ted Talk interview?
Dialogue.
How many sisters does William have?
6
What is a drought?
A long period of time without rain.
Malawi elected a businessman named Bakili Muluzi as president in 2000. According to William, .."our new president, a businessman named Bakili Muluzi, didn't believe the governments job was to help farmers." What policies (actions; change in the government) did the new president implement that made life harder for farmers?
They raised the price of fertilizer.