Seedfolks
In this story, a city community in Cleveland comes together when they:
What is starting a garden?
Who am I?
I am a 9-year-old girl from Vietnam and I plant 6 lima bean seeds in memory of my deceased father.
Who is Kim
a silvery fish that is most abundant in coastal waters
What is a Herring?
The reasons that Kim's lima beans were dying. |
1) What is a lack of water? 2) They were planted too early and needed more heat. |
Who said, "She hadn't seen me behind the refrigerator. She looked afraid for her life."
Who is Wendell
Where does the setting of the story take place?
Where is Cleveland, Ohio
I am a seventy-eight-year-old man that wants to plant Pumpkins.
Who is Sam
a job or profession.
What is a occupation?
What is a very important problem that the people who are planting in the garden have to keep the garden thriving? |
What is lack of water? What is getting enough water to the plants, so they thrive? |
From Seedfolks, according to Sam, name 2 problems in the garden.
What is no water access, segregation, trash, fighting, and fencing?
What book has an urban neighborhood setting of Cleveland, Ohio, specifically on Gibb Street?
What is Seedfolks
From Seedfolks, how does Ana respond when she investigates what Kim buried in the dirt?
What is guilty that she thought the worst and repaired it?
a faucet or tap
What is a spigot?
doesn't actually plant anything in the garden because she has arthritis
Who is Florence?
From Seedfolks, how does Gonzalo learn to speak English?
What is by watching TV and cartoons
Name 3 of the nationalities working the garden on Gibbs St. from Seedfolks that we have read so far.
What is...Vietnamese, Guatemalan, English, American, Jewish
This person lived all his life and worked as a farmer in Vietnam. |
Who is Kim's father
A grocery store, usually one that sells products from Latin-America
What is a Bodega
He couldn't communicate in English, so he became like a baby who had to be taken care of
What was Tío Juan's problem since he came to the United States?
From Seedfolks, what does Leona realize as she makes a telephone call regarding the vacant lot?
What is No one will pay attention to phone complaints, but they will to live, smelly trash!
What does the garden symbolize to many of the characters in Seedfolks?
What it Hope?
Goes to city hall with the trash from the vacant lot when phone calls are not effective?
Who is Leona? |
When you believe that war and violence are always wrong and that people should use peaceful ways to settle problems.
What is pacifism?
What does Sam observe about how the garden is set up?
What is Sam observes that the garden is set up just like the neighborhood with all of the different races separated. Some people begin to put up "keep out" signs and barbed wire.
Who is from Romania and gets involved with the garden because she is is suspicious?
Who is Ana