Setting
These two memoirs primarily take place in schools.
What are "Pastels and Crayons" and "Eleven"?
This is the character who wrote about a particular birthday.
Who is Rachel?
These TWO memoirs are both set during holiday traditions.
What are "The Pie I Didn't Bake" and "Fish Cheeks"?
This is a symbol of the narrator's traditional Chinese background, culture, and identity.
What is the food?
The teacher is named this in "Eleven", and she never really listens to what Rachel is trying to tell her.
This memoir starts describing the narrator's thoughts while in her kitchen.
What is "The Pie I didn't Bake"?
This is the character who learned to think differently about the way she complimented people or tried to get to know them.
Who is Alexis Chin?
The narrator in this story learns about herself from being around other girls her own age.
What is "Wild Women and Dancing Queens"?
This object might represent anger, helplessness, youth, confusion.
What is the red sweater?
The teacher named this in this memoir had a profound impact on the narrator becoming confident in her identity and sense of self.
What is Miss Pennington in "Pastels and Crayons"?
In this memoir, the people are celebrating a Christmas meal together.
What is "Fish Cheeks"?
The narrator of this story is going through her adolescent years and is confronted when her crush comes to her house.
What is "Fish Cheeks"?
Identity is an important part of most memoirs. Most of the stories we studied take place in this stage of life.
What is adolescence?
The act of taking off one's clothes represented a moment of this in one memoir.
What is freedom?
This is the term in the memoir that is related to complimenting someone on their outward appearance.
What is body talk?
Although this memoir starts off in one school, it continues and describes many years of growth and reflection.
What is "Pastels and Crayons"?
The narrator of this story learns that it is ok to both be angry at and love her brother. It is written by this author.
What is "The Pie I Didn't Bake"? Who is Lindsey Crittendon?
Teachers play an important role in these two memoirs.
What are "Pastels and Crayons" and "Eleven"?
The medium in which one creates art says something. The oil pastels in this memoir represent this.
What is value or self-worth?
The narrator felt insecure on this day at her school when others questioned her cultural heritage and race.
What is International Day?
This memoir's setting is a camp called Indian Brook.
The main character compares herself to her three best friends, all girls whose names begin with the letter "A", and her name is this.
What is Aleeza?
Family plays a very important role in these two memoirs.
What are "Fish Cheeks" and "The Pie I Didn't Bake"?
This is a symbol in one of the memoirs that represents the character's desire to be more American.
What is the miniskirt her mother gives her for a Christmas present?
This memoir deals with the topic of beauty in an unconventional way.
What is "Wild Women and Dancing Queens"?