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6.1  Prehistory
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6.3  Ancient Israel/Hebrews
6.4  Ancient Greece
6.5  Ancient India
6.6  Ancient China
6.7  Ancient Rome

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Standard 3.0 Literary Response and Analysis

Story:  The Bracelet
Focus:  Standard 3.2 Conflict and Resolution

 Chapter 2   Text Book Link
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1.0  |  2.4  |    3.2
 
 
Vocabulary

aliens

forsaken

interned

evacuated

Summary: A Japanese-American  family is unjustly taken from their homes in the San Francisco Bay Area after the attacks by Japan on the United States in World War II.

The main character, Ruri, is sad as she has to leave her friends and move to a temporary relocation camp at a horse track.  Before she leaves her home, her best friend, Laurie, gives her a bracelet to remember her by.

Focus: Conflict and Resolution .

Consider the following Plot Elements
Setting: 1942 in the San Francisco Bay Area
Characters: Ruri, Laurie, her older sister, mother
Conflict:  Ruri needs to adjust to changes
Climax: Ruri loses something important and has to deal with it.
Resolution: Ruri's mother helps her realize that her friendship is within her heart and not in a piece of jewlery.
Question Preview:
  1. At the beginning of the story, Ruri is crying because _____
  2. Where is papa when the story begins?  Papa is in a ______
  3. How do Ruri's non-Japanese neighbors feel about the evacuation of Ruri's family? 
  4. The camp where Ruri's family must stay was once a ______
  5. When Ruri hears that her family will live in an apartment she feels excited because _____
  6. Why is the bracelet important to Ruri? ___
  7. Why does Ruri think the whole evacuation is crazy? ___
  8. What vocabulary word BEST describes how Ruri feels when she saw Apartment 40?
  9. Why does the loss of the bracelet seem so much like a tragedy to Ruri?
  10. What does Mama tell Ruri about the lost bracelet? 
  11. How would you describe Ruri?
  12. How does Ruri's trust in her mother help resolve Ruri's conflict at the end of the story?
  13. What quality in Ruri's mother helps her family deal with the events that happen to them? 
  14. What was  an event from the plot that resolves one of the stoty's central conflicts.?