What words are used to help identify the sequence of a story?
What is first, second, third, fourth.
100
What is the subject of a sentence?
What is the whom or what the sentence is about.
100
This word means very high.
What is towering
100
How do you know that the author's grandfather liked his journey through North America?
What is he never thought of going home.
200
What event happened first in the story?
What is the author's grandfather left Japan and traveled in America.
200
What is the predicate of a sentence?
What is the part of the sentence that tells what the subject does.
200
This word means completely confused; puzzled
What is bewildered?
200
What is a main idea?
A main idea is an important point about the story's topic.
200
Why was the village not a good place for the grandfather to raise a daughter who had grown up in San Francisco?
What is the village was too small and quiet.
300
What happened last in the story?
What is the author understood his grandfather.
300
The complete sujbect of the sentence: The brown cow jumped over the tall building.
What is jumped over the tall building.
300
This word means country that is your home; your native land
What is homeland
300
What is the main idea of this paragraph: "Of all the places he visited, he liked California best. He loved the strong sunglight there, the Sierra Mountains, the lonely seacoast."
What is the grandfather loved California best.
300
Why did the author's grandfather raise songbirds?
What is to reduce his homesickness
400
When did the author's grandfather return to live in his childhood village the last time?
What is after the war.
400
The simple subject of the sentence: Some other friends visited her in California.
What is friends
400
This word means to make or become calm or quiet.
What is still?
400
Why does the title of the story fit even though only the beginning is about grandfather's journey?
The journey affected the grandfather and the author's lives.
400
Why was the author's grandfather amazed and bewildered by the sights in North America?
It was very different from his home in Japan.
500
When did the author write the story?
What is after his grandfather died.
500
The simple predicate of the sentence: He is going to the store after school.
What is "is going"
500
This word means surprised greatly; struck with sudden wonder; astounded.
What is amazed?
500
The main idea of "Grandfather's Journey"
What is the author, like his grandfather, loves two countries.
500
How might this story be different if the author had never traveled to California?
He would not understand his grandfather as well as he does.