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Setting
Vocabulary
Just About Leah
Just About Suzy
Teacher's Choice
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When and where does Suzy and Leah take place?
in America near the end of World War II
100
cabinet with shelves for cups, plates, food; sometimes called a pantry.
What is cupboard?
100
Why does Leah refuse Suzy's candy?
Leah dislikes and distrust America, including Suzy.
100
Based on this passage, how would you describe Suzy? I wouldn't want to be one of them. Imagine going to school and not being able to speak English or understand anything...I can't imagine anything worse.
Suzy does not know much about what's going on in the world.
100
What do the details in this passage tell you about author's purpose? I write all this down, I will not hold so much anger. I have much anger. And terror besides. Terror. It is a new word for me, but an old feeling.
She is trying to create a mood.
200
What is the setting of the story?
in and around a refugee camp in the United States
200
restrictions on food by Jewish law
What is kosher?
200
Why did Leah go to the hospital?
she was very sick and had to have her appendix removed
200
What good comes from Suzy reading Leah's diary?
Suzy realizes all that Leah has suffered in the war.
200
What did Suzy do that she thought was terrible?
read Leah's diary
300
Where describes where the Jewish refugees live?
It was a line of rickety wooden buildings just like in the army with a barbed wire fence around it.
300
German word for mother
What is Mutti?
300
What word describes Leah's reaction to Suzy's first visit to the camp?
silent
300
What is Suzy's nickname for Leah?
Miss Porcupine
300
a tubular sac that extends from the intestine on the right side of the body; can kill you if it bursts
What is an appendix?
400
What is author's purpose?
to persuade, to inform, to entertain, to create mood
400
a person who flees home or country to seek shelter from war or cruelty
What is a refugee?
400
What does this passage reveal about Leah? Suzy expects me to be grateful. But how can I be grateful? She treats me like a pet, a pet she does not really like or trust. She wants to feed me like an animal behind bars.
She is suspicious.
400
What does this tell you that Leah has learned from her experiences? One day soon this Suzy and her people will stop being nice to us. They will remember we are not just refugees but Jews, and they will turn on us. Just as the Germans did.
Strangers should never be trusted.
400
a soft food made of cereal boiled in water or milk; like oatmeal
What is porridge?
500
What is the genre of "Suzy and Leah?
historical fiction
500
last for all time; forever
What is permanent?
500
Why does Leah wait to tell anyone about her illness?
Leah remembers sick people were killed in the concentration camps.
500
What do Leah's diary entries reveal about her?
She feels lost and sad
500
locked up in a small enclosure
What is penned?