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Week 12 Echo Comprehension Questions

Echo Comprehension Questions Week 12

Part 3, Chapters 1 - 3, pages 362 - 400

Part 3, Intro
1. The setting for Part Three is in Southern California during December 1942. What is significant about this setting?


Part 3, Chapter 1
2. The chapter begins with the song Auld Lang Syne . What is this song about?

3. What is Ivy Maria Lopez and her mother hoping for?

4. What is the connection between Part One, Part Two, and Part Three?

5. “She slipped the harmonica inside the jacket. His gray wool jacket…” (371). Who is he?

6. “... Papa says you have your head in the clouds. You must come down to earth” (372). What does this statement mean? Do you think this is a bad thing?  Why or why not?

7. How did Ivy‛s parents treat her differently compared to Ivy‛s brother, Fernando?

8. “... Ivy watched the hungry eyes of mothers and young wives” (374). Why did the author use the word hungry to describe their eyes?

9. Where is Fernando? Why had it been so long since they have heard from him?

10. Ivy‛s family receives news that there is a job opportunity in Orange County. Why was there a job opportunity open?


Part 3, Chapter 2
11. “... she had lived so many places: Buttonwillow, Modesto, Selma, Shafter, and other towns whose names she‛d long forgotten” (377). Why did Ivy‛s family have to move so much?

12. Papa mentions that a war is going on. Which war? Where do you think Nando is stationed?

13. “Mama would think it improper to use Fernando as an example when he was away fighting a war” (382). Why would it be improper?

14. Why did Bertina‛s family have to leave their job? What would become Papa and Mama‛s jobs?

15. “Better. Papa was always looking for a place called Better” (385). What does this mean? Why was Papa always looking?


Part 3, Chapter 3
16. “She could even point a finger at the exact day three months ago when her life had become different” (388). What do you think happened?

17. What happened the day after Ivy arrived in Fresno?

18. “Hadn‛t Fernando and his buddies said they knew people who tried to enlist but were refused because they weren‛t fit for the military?” (390). Why would people wanting to fight for their country be sent away?

19. Why was Fernando not suited for war? Use evidence from the text to support your answer.

20. How is Ivy‛s school planning on helping out during the war?

21. How did Ivy get the harmonica with the tiny red M painted on it?

22. What an Ivy do to “fix” things when Fernando is away at war? Use evidence from the text to support your answer.

23. What songs were played during the last night Ivy‛s family was together?

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-          Tuesday – Echo Week 11 Comprehension Questions due before 8:15 AM

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-          Tuesday – Sentence Composing Journal #051 - #100

Echo Week 11 Comprehension Questions

Part 2, Chapters 20 - 24, pages 338  - 363

Due before Tuesday 2/27/18 at 8:15 am in Turnitin.com

Part 2, Chapter 20
1. “Mike didn‛t have any trouble feeling melancholy in his heart” (338). Why was Mike upset? Use evidence to support your answer.
2. “It had been an impulse…” (340). What was an impulse?

Part 2, Chapter 21
3. How has the harmonica been more than an instrument. Use evidence from the text to support your answer.
4. Why are orphans considered lucky at tryouts?

Part 2, Chapter 22
5. Why did Aunt Eunie want to celebrate before the tryout results?
6. Did Mike really want to leave? Why or why not? Why is he having a difficult time stating his true feelings?

Part 2, Chapter 23
7. What did Mike find in Aunt Eunie‛s office?
8. “He‛d been careful of the hat pin, but he still felt a stabbing pain in his chest” (354). Why did Mike feel this way?
9. “Mike listened with a mix of regret and determination, knowing he‛d never have the chance to join them” (356). Why did Mike have these feelings?

Part 2, Chapter 24
10. Why did Mike tell Frankie about Aunt Eunie‛s plan?
11. How did the author incorporate stars at the end of the chapter? What do the stars symbolize? Use evidence from the text to support your answer.
 

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Echo Week 10 Comprehension Questions

Echo Week 10 Comprehension Questions

Part 2, Chapters 14 - 19, pages 300 - 337


Directions:  Answer the following questions with at least one complete sentence and submit your answers to Turnitin.com before 2/12/18 at 8:15 am for full credit.  DO NOT recopy the questions in your final answer submission -- only submit your own original answers. 

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Part 2, Chapter 14
1. Why does Mike feel guilty? Use evidence from the text to support your answer.
2. “But her gaze dropped to the ground” (303). What does this say about Mrs. Sturbridge?
3. What did Mr. Howard remind Mrs. Sturbridge about her father‛s wishes?
4. What has Mr. Howard done to stick by Mrs. Sturbridge‛s side?
5. Mike wonders a few questions at the end of the chapter: What did her dead father have to do with their adoption? Who was Henry? And what was she trying to undo? What do you think are the answers to these questions? Use evidence from the text to support your thinking.

Part 2, Chapter 15
6. “‘And I‛m afraid of losing the things I‛m beginning to care about‛” (305). Why is the word beginning italicized?
7. What does Frankie find out about the relationship between Mr. Howard and Eunie?
8. Who is Henry? What happened to him?
9. Why did Eunie‛s father change his will? What stipulations are in his will?
10. How are Mr. Howard, the lawyers, Mrs. Potter, Mr. Potter, and Eunie all guilty in this situation? Hint: What are they keeping from Mike and Frankie?
11. Why did Mr. Howard decide to bring both Mike and Frankie back to the house? Use evidence to support your answer.
12. Why does Mr. Howard believe that things with Eunie could be different for Mike and Frankie?
13. Why is Mr. Howard not adopting Mike and Frankie?
14. “... staring at the Good Humor bar, watching the chocolate slide from the vanilla center. He held it over the grass as it fell apart: first the shell and then the insides” (313). How can this line mean something deeper?

Part 2, Chapter 16
15. What is Mike‛s new plan?
16. Mike thinks back to what Mouse said to him. How could this advice come in handy during this time?

Part 2, Chapter 17
17. What does Mike do with Mouse‛s advice?
18. Summarize what Mike says to Mrs. Sturbridge? Why, at one point in the conversation, does she not say anything?
19. “But Mike was sure he saw tears rolling down the side of her cheek. If only he knew what they meant” (323). What do you think the tears mean? Use evidence to support your answer.
 
Part 2, Chapter 18
20. What did Mrs. Sturbridge do that she has not done in a long time?

Part 2, Chapter 19
21. “‘But, I want you to know that no matter what happens with the band…” (330). What do you think she was going to say until she was interrupted?
22. Why do you think Mrs. Sturbridge had a change of heart? What did she tell Mike?
23. How has the house changed?
24. What advice did Mrs. Sturbridge give Mike about his upcoming audition?
25. “But Mike knew it wasn‛t a miracle” (337). Do you think this was a miracle? Why or why not? Use evidence to support your answer.

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