Characters
Name of Ian’s housekeeper
(Berta)
Age of Ian at the beginning of the novel
(15)
Definition of restrain
(to prevent from doing, exhibiting, or expressing something)
Hector Garcia introduces these two types of treatments for PTSD
(cognitive therapy, exposure therapy)
“Don’t let yourself be another casualty of Rwanda”
(Ian)
Ian’s Civics teacher
(Mrs. Watkins)
Reasons we know that Ian’s family is wealthy
(luxury cars, expensive vacations, housekeeper, pays money to have people landscape, willing to buy Ian a car for his 16th birthday)
Definition of convoy
(an escort used for protection)
Identify one of the key messages from Wes Moore’s Ted Talk – How to talk to veterans about war
(veterans want to talk about their experiences, want to be thanked for their service, all people have different reasons for joining the military)
“A small act of kindness, of goodness, to try to counter the evil that was done”
(Mrs. Watkins)
Character who saved Berta’s life
(Eduardo)
Mrs. Watkins introduces her class to this Canadian prime minister who helped form Canada’s reputation as peacekeepers
(Lester B. Pearson)
Government for the people
(democracy)
Janine di Giovanni’s ted talk “What I saw in war” discusses being in Sarajevo and seeing 12,000 of these in the streets to represent the amount of people killed
(chairs)
“There’s something about helping that makes you feel good. I can’t figure out if it’s the most selfish or selfless thing you can do”
(Mac)
Name of the young girl who was abducted, assaulted, and killed in Ian’s community
(Crystal)
In the final chapter, Mac gives Ian something from Jack. What is that item?
(plastic chip)
Word for a formal order from a superior court or official to an inferior one
(mandate)
In “Living Beyond Limits”, Amy Purdy discusses her nonprofit organization. What does her organization do?
(helps disabled children / adults to get involved in action sports)
“No one knows everything…Things like that they are not taught to children…best to protect them from these things”
(Berta)
Ian’s classmate who makes fun of Ian working in the soup kitchen; he comments that Ian is like “one of the cafeteria ladies”
(Jason)
The message of the starfish story
(no matter how small the gesture may seem, it can have an enormous impact upon the lives of others)
Mac refers to some of the volunteers at his club as being this
(do-gooders)
In Becky Blanton’s Ted-Talk “The year I was homeless”, what life event influences her to quit her job and become homeless
(her father’s death)
“Human nature is to look away from what is unpleasant”
(Sarge)