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100
"Be careful what you ask for. You just might get it!".
What is the "theme" of the story?
100
Ellis Island, New York
What is the setting or where this article takes place?
100
1st hand account OR 2nd hand account?: The point of view of America's Gates
What is secondhand account?
100
The meaning of "favus" in the following sentence: "All children were checked for favus, a scalp and nail disease."
What is a scalp and nail disease?
100
Not an example of a "simile": 1) He hopped like a cricket. 2) He hopped like a pea in a saucepan. 3) He hopped on his hind legs. 4) He stuck out his tail like a milking stool behind him.
What is 3) He hopped on his hind legs?
200
What are an outcrop in the middle of Australia, the sand-flat, a burrow in the spinifex, a sandbank in the middle of Australia, a bath in the saltpan, Tropic of Cancer, Wollgong River
What are an outcrop in the middle of Australia, the sand-flat, a burrow in the spinifex, a sandbank in the middle of Australia, a bath in the saltpan, Tropic of Cancer, Wollgong River
200
Shows that the immigrants had very few possessions when they came to this country.
What is the photo on page 82?
200
3rd person objective, 3rd person limited, OR 3rd person omniscient: The point of view of The Sing of Old Kangaroo
What is 3rd person omniscient? We get to see the thoughts of Kangaroo and Yellow-Dog Dingo only.
200
What is the meaning of the word "incurable" in the following sentence: "Immigrants with contagious and incurable diseases were sent back to their home countries."?
What is "not able to be healed or cured".
200
The purpose of the visual in the Sing Song story: 1) to show how the Kangaroo body was altered as he hopped 2) to give us an idea of what the setting of the story is 3) to show how tired Kangaroo and Yellow-Dog were 4) to show how Yellow Dog chased Kangaroo
What is 4) to show how Yellow Dog chased Kangaroo?
300
Kangaroo asks to be different than the other animals so that he can be popular, but when his wish is granted he wonders if he made the right decision.
What is the summary of the story?
300
Another name for the "kissing point".
What is the "Staircase of Separation"?
300
How would America's Gates be different if it were told as a 1st hand account?
What is "we would hear the story from the point of view of one of the immigrants, one of the Ellis Island workers, or anyone who actually experienced being @ Ellis Island or coming to America through Ellis Island"?
300
Excessive OR reasonable- the meaning of the word "inordinate" in the following statement: "He was grey and woolly, and his pride was inordinate..."
What is "excessive"?
300
The statement that best supports the following sentence: "It was not easy for immigrants to leave their homes countries to pursue better lives in America." 1) It meant leaving everything familiar to go to a land full of unknown. 2) Steerage passengers were loaded onto ferries and taken to Ellis Island.
What is 1) It meant leaving everything familiar to go to a land full of unknown.
400
Kangaroo, Nqa, Nquing, Nqong, Dingo the Yellow Dog
What some of the characters in the story?
400
The reason some immigrants had to be in the lower decks on the ships
What is because they could not afford the cabins or private rooms on the ships?
400
a narrator
What is the person telling the Sing-Song story OR Who is telling the story?
400
The meaning of the word "altered" in the following statement: "...he's chased me out of my regular meal-times; he's altered my shape so I'll never get it back..."
What is "changed"?
400
True or false: The interview process was probably very nerve-wracking for the immigrants because they new that if that didn't answer correctly they could be sent back to their home countries.
What is TRUE?
500
Yellow-Dog Dingo chases Kangaroo all over Australia until his shape changes and he is not like the other animals any longer.
What is the resolution/solution to the conflict/problem in the story?
500
The time frame that Ellis Island opened as an immigration station
What is the late 1800s?
500
Whose point of view?-"...Wondering what in the world or out of it made Old Man Kangaroo hop"
What is Yellow-Dog Dingo?
500
The meaning of the word "steerage" in the following statement: "These men, women, and children were crowded into the vessels' lower decks called steerage."
What is "a vessel's lower decks"?
500
Traits of the immigrants: 1) bravery and honesty 2) courage and endurance 3) dependability and intelligence 4) unselfishness and trustworthiness
What is 2) courage and endurance?