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Potpurri
100

The authors' names and which story they wrote

Yoshiko Uchida: "The Wise Old Woman"


Gary Soto: "The Broken Chain"

100

The way the village must deal with their elderly

What is leaving them on a mountain?

100

What we call a story created in popular culture designed to teach a lesson.

What is a folktale?

100
The difference between internal and external conflict.

What is external conflict originates from the world/outside of the character and internal conflict originates from within the character?

100
How Yoshiko Uchida went about writing "The Wise Old Woman" (she didn't make it up she...).

What is writing it down/collecting it?

200

The family member Gary Soto lost when he was six years old

Who is his father?

200
The grade Alfonso is in.

What is seventh grade?

200

What we call a book that a person has written to be a factual depiction of their own life.

What is an autobiography?

200

The difference between indirect and direct characterization.

What is direct characterization is told to the reader and indirect characterization sees the reader interpret the character?

200

The two requirements for what a setting is.

What is the time and place?

300

The name of the program that separated Yoshiko Uchida and her family from other American citizens during WWII.

What are internment camps?

300

The reward the cruel young lord offered for the solving of the riddles.

What is gold?

300

What makes something a short story.

What is to be read in one sitting?

300

List and label the parts of a S.T.E.A.L. chart.

WOW

300

The holiday during which Ernie and his friends met the girls who'd stood them up.

What is Halloween?

400

The parts of childhood Gary Soto focuses on in his writing.

What are the little/unimportant parts of childhood?

400

Why Alfonso thought Sandra couldn't be the girl who stood Ernie up.

What is she was too nice?

400
The way folktales were initially passed down before they were written.

What is verbally/by word of mouth/by oral tradition?

400

Write out two sentences where you explain how a specific life event for one of the authors influenced their writing.

What is something specific?

400

The two authors and their cultures.

What is Yoshiko Uchida–Japanese American

Gary Soto–Mexican American

500

The cultural element Yoshiko Uchida studied in school

What is folk pottery?

500

List the three trials/riddles in "The Wise Old Woman" (in their proper order) and how each one is solved.

What is: one thousand ropes of ash (soaked in salt water and burned)

string strung through a log (tie a string to an ant)

drum that plays itself (put a bee in a drum)?

500

What we call the methods authors use to create characters in works of literature.

What is characterization?

500

List out three points of comparison/contrast (one of each and then a third selection which can be either).

What is {this answer is too big for me to guess}?

500
How internal conflict and external conflict appear (one each) in each of the two stories. 

What is a lot of problems and feelings?