1. Inside Out & Back Again is historical fiction: a made-up story based on a real time and place in history.
Vocabulary:
- Historical events from Ha’s particular perspective, or point of view.
- Ha’s point of view is subjective: the events are described in her voice and through her eyes. She is telling us her experience, not just “the facts.”
- Communism: a system of government based on the idea that the community or state should hold the property, so everyone shares equally. Point out the word root “com,” which means “together.”
2. Graphic Organizer - read "Two More Papayas" and "Promises" - write notes about how the papaya tree is growing.
3. Graphic Organizer - read "TV News" and "Closed to Soon" - write notes about how the papaya tree is growing.
4. Text dependent questions
5. Read stanza on page 25 "TV News" - answer question about blind conviction: "What does Brother Quang mean?"
6. Text dependent questions - papaya tree
7. Compare the graphic organizer - how do these parts of the novel compare to one another? What is the relationship between the events in the novel and the papaya tree?
8. What does the papaya tree symbolize?
9. Why is it important to use specific evidence from the text to explain your thinking?
Homework:
1. Read pages 42-47
2. Complete QuickWrite #4