Locations
This area of New York is the focus of "Snow".
Where is Brooklyn?
The decade "Snow" takes place in.
What is the 1960s?
Peculiar
What is strange or unusual?
Who are immigrants?
What is a person or group of people who relocate and move to a different country?
The name of the main character in "Snow".
What is Yolanda?
This is where one would use a rosary.
What is a church?
The decade the Holocaust took place in.
What is the 1940s?
Mourning
What is to grieve the loss of a loved one?
The main idea of a story is also known as this.
What is theme?
The name of Yolanda's School Teacher.
Who is Sister Zoe?
This location is one of the first words Yolanda learns in English.
What is a laundromat?
This year is when the Cuban Missile Crisis took place.
What is 1962?
Hefty
To be a bilingual speaker means?
What is to speak 2 languages fluently?
This is Yolanda's special name for her Mother.
What is "Mami"?
The area of the school where Yolanda would practice in air raid drills.
What is the main hallway?
The year was President Kennedy assassinated (killed).
What is 1963?
Ominous
What is unsettling, eerie or unpleasant?
To make guesses based on the clues provided to you is which technique?
What is inferencing?
Sister Zoe is this type of character.
What is static?
The school Yolanda attends is named after the Nuns who teach there. What were they called?
Who are the "Sisters of Charity"?
The date the first ever nuclear bomb was dropped.
What is July 16th 1945?
Communism
What is a political belief where everyone shares their belongings and there is no private property?
A sentence about snowflakes being beautiful and irreplaceable describes this literary technique.
What is Imagery/Descriptive Language?
The name of the author of "Snow".
Who is Julia Alvarez?