Author Info
The place both authors were born.
Where is California?
The thing Alfonso constantly asks his mother for.
What are braces?
Something folk tales have to have.
What are lessons?
Explain the reader's job in indirect characterization.
What is the reader interpreting details about a specific character as opposed to being told what they mean?
The main example of internal conflict in "The Broken Chain."
What is Alfonso not liking himself?
The historical place Yoshiko Uchida was forced to attend.
What are internment camps?
How the cruel young lord has the elderly killed.
What is leaving them on a mountain?
What makes an autobiography
What is a true story the author writes about themselves?
Explain the lessons taught in "The Broken Chain" and "The Wise Old Woman."
What is old people are wise and someone's interpretation of BC?
Who specifically comes up with folk tales?
What are cultural/ethnic groups?
The age at which Gary Soto lost his father.
What is six years old?
How the cruel young lord says old people will be treated at the end of the story.
What is treated with respect?
What makes a moment of direct characterization
What is the author telling the reader something directly?
Explain how one of Gary Soto and one of Yoshiko Uchida's life events influenced their writing.
[What is Miss Ram-Ram's best option?]
The amount of time the farmer's mother lived under his house.
What is around two years?
The concepts Gary Soto wants to replicate in his writing.
What are the Mexican American experience and smaller details of childhood?
When Ernie and the girl he thinks of as Sandra met
What is Halloween?
How folk tales were passed down.
What is oral tradition?
Explain the difference between external and internal conflicts.
What is conflict coming from outside of the character or within the character themselves?
Why Yoshiko Uchida collected and retold folk tales?
What is saving Japanese culture for children?
The odd art form that Yoshiko Uchida studied.
What is folk pottery?
List all three of the solutions to Lord Higa's riddles
What are soaking ropes in salt water and burning them, tying a rope with a strand of silk to an ant and letting it go through the log, and putting a bee inside of a drum.
List the steps of the S.T.E.A.L. chart
What are speech, thoughts, effect on others, actions, and looks?
Create a S.T.E.A.L. chart for a character of your choice from "The Broken Chain."
Explain how "The Wise Old Woman" and "The Broken Chain" are written differently and why.
What is practice for your essay?