Story Facts
The state of Alfonso's bike when he goes to clean the chain
What is clean?
The two main types of conflict
What are internal and external conflict?
The place Gary Soto is from.
Where is Fresno, California?
The event that changes a character's life and kicks off the story.
What is the inciting incident?
What is teaching a lesson?
The way the farmer's mother saves herself.
What is making a trail of branches for her son to follow back home?
The place and time a story takes place
What is a setting?
The age at which Yoshiko Uchida went to college
What is sixteen?
When the author directly explains the rules of the world to the reader
What is exposition?
The purposes of reading actively.
What are reading to understand and reading to evaluate?
The subplot of The Broken Chain
What is Alfonso's story about dating Sandra?
The thing that makes a work a short story
What is the ability to read the story in one sitting?
The tragedy that struck Gary Soto at age six.
What is the loss of his father?
What is the climax?
The real purpose of essay-writing in English class
What is learning to support your claims with proof from the text?
The lesson of The Wise Old Woman
What is to respect your elders OR what is it for everyone to have a role in a community?
The difference between direct and indirect characterization.
What is how you are told/how you receive information about the character?
The job Yoshiko Uchida performed at internment camps.
What is a teacher?
What is how the falling action is still part of the active story while the resolution explains more about the story we won't see?
Draw a scene from either story.
[Miss Ramsey's discretion].
What are the thousand ropes of ash, a log with a strand of silk woven through it, and a drum that plays itself?
Label what each part of the S.T.E.A.L. Method stands for.
What are Speech, Thoughts, Effects on Others, Actions, and Looks?
The focus of both authors in their writing.
What are representing childhood and collecting stories from her culture?
Draw and correctly label a plot map with all six parts.
[Miss Ramsey's discretion]
Explain the different ways The Wise Old Woman and The Broken Chain comment on family.
[Miss Ramsey's discretion]