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Write out the first names, last names, and corresponding stories for each work in this unit.
What is Yoshiko Uchida–The Wise Old Woman and Gary Soto–The Broken Chain?
What a story the author writes about their own real life (i.e. not fictional) is called.
What is an autobiography?
The setting of "The Wise Old Woman." Hint: setting has two parts.
What is feudal (ancient) Japan?
Explain one lesson from "The Wise Old Woman" and one lesson from "The Broken Chain."
What are respecting your elders and how family will come through for you?
Which family member Gary Soto lost to a work accident.
Who is his father?
What the camps Japanese Americans were placed in during WWII were called.
What are internment camps?
What folktales exist to do.
What is teach a lesson from a culture?
The place the farmer hid his mother.
Where is under their floor?
Explain one event from either Gary Soto or Yoshiko Uchida's life which impacted their writing.
{WOW}?
What sport Alfonso's father always watches.
What is softball?
The kind of school that Yoshiko Uchida was in when she was forced to take a pause.
What is College (University of California, Berkley)?
The way folktales were traditionally passed down before they were written down (two words).
What is the oral tradition?
When Ernie met the girl who stood him up.
When was Halloween?
In two complete sentences, please explain the difference between internal and external conflict.
What is inside vs outside?
Which cultural experiences the authors channel in their writing.
What is Japanese American and Mexican American?
The portion of childhood that Gary Soto thought it was important to focus on in his writing.
What are the little moments?
The kind of conflict found in both stories.
What is external conflict?
How Alfonso broke his bike chain.
What is cleaning it a second time/when it was already clean?
Write out a S(peech), T(houghts), E(ffects on Ohers), A(ctions), and L(ooks) chart for a character of your choice in "The Broken Chain."
{STEAL}?
Which kind of characterization involves more work from the reader (don't shorten it).
What is indirect characterization?
What Yoshiko Uchida went on to study.
What is folk pottery?
Explain the difference between kinds of characterization while defining which is which.
What is how direct characterization involves the author telling you something about the character while indirect characterization involves the reader interpreting something about the character?
List the three riddles and their solutions in the proper order.
What is the thousand ropes of ash / soaking them in salt water and burning them, the silk through the log / tying the string to an ant, and the drum that plays itself / putting a bee in the drum?
Explain in bullet points three main points of comparison/contrast between "The Wise Old Woman" and "The Broken Chain."
{WOW}?
Where was Lord Higa from
Where is beyond the hills?