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Milkweed by Jerry Spinelli

Chapters 1-8 Vocabulary

Chapter 1 1. What are the earliest memories described in this brief chapter? 2. Do you think this character is a boy or girl? Why do you think he/she is a thief? 3. The story takes place in Warsaw. What country is Warsaw located in?

Chapter 2 1. How does the main character of the story meet Uri? 2. What does the character say his/her name is? 3. Who are the Jackboots?

Chapter 3 1. Where does the main character meet the group of boys? 2. Why are the boys there? 3. What do we learn about the main character? 4. What do you think will happen to the boy? What clues are given that indicate this? 5. Point of View - Point of view in literature refers to the person telling the story. This person is called the narrator. The narrator might be the author or a character in the story. (A) From whose point of view is this story told? (B) Why do you think the author chose this point of view?

Chapter 4 1. Why were people making and moving sandbags? 2. Why do the people in the streetcar tell the boys to get off? 3. Why do you think Uri tells the boy to, "Take only what you need."? 4. Why did everyone leave the streetcar? 5. Why do you think the boys took the streetcar for a joyride?

Chapter 5 1. Why were the air raid sirens silent the day the Nazis marched into Warsaw? 2. Why do you think the boy was happy to see the Jackboots? 3. Why do you think everyone else was somber because of the arrival of the Jackboots? 4. Metaphor - A metaphor is a comparison between two unlike things without using like or as. For example: We passed the black, twisted skeletons of streetcars. (A) What is being compared? (B) What does this tell about what has happened in the city?

Chapter 6 1. What does Uri do when the boy talks to the soldiers about the barbershop? 2. What does the boy finally realize at the end of the chapter?

Chapter 7 1. How does the boy get a real name and a past? 2. What is the setting of Milkweed? Please create the following organizer in your folder and answer each item with a complete sentence.

Chapter 7- cont.

Chapter 8 1. When Misha attends Janina's birthday party why does he steal the cake? 2. Why are mobs of people painting yellow stars on stores? 3. What is Misha glad about?

Chapter 9-15 Vocabulary

Chapter 9 1. Where does Uri take the extra bread that Misha steals? Why? 2. Why do you think Uri, Misha, and the other boys from the stable are not living at the orphanage?

Chapter 10 1. Who shoots at Misha and why? 2. What does Misha want to believe in? What does Uri believe in? 3. A simile is a figure of speech in which two unlike objects are compared using the words “like” or “as.” For example: The streetlights were like moons cupped in iron fingers. (A) What is being compared? (B) What does this reveal about the narrator’s view of the world around him?

Chapter 11 1. Why are all the trees disappearing? 2. Uri and later Misha find black pearls and give them to the orphanage. What are black pearls? 3. Personification is a figure of speech in which an author grants human qualities to a nonhuman object. For example: One, a thick, burly monster of a tree with warts, came down with a high, thin wail that sounded like a baby crying. (A) What is being personified? (B) What does this reveal about the narrator’s feelings?

Chapter 12 1. Why do you think Uri tells Misha to be “invisible”?

Chapter 13 1. After Misha gets thrown off the Merry-go-round how do the other boys and girls treat him? 2. Why does Doctor Korczak pull Misha inside the orphanage when he tries to get the children for a ride on the Merry-go- round? 3. Symbolism - A symbol in literature is an object, person, or event that represents an idea or set of ideas. (A) What do you think the black horse on the merry-go- round might have symbolized? (B) What do you think the fox-face furs with the beady black eyes symbolize?

Chapter 14 1. Does the lack of evidence about the broken horse on the merry-go-round stop the people from finding a suspect? Why do they automatically think it’s a Jew?

Chapter 15 1. Why is Misha invisible to all the Jews going to the ghetto except for Doctor Korczak and Janina’s family? 2. Why did most people refuse Misha’s offer of a bite of his sausage? 3. Dramatic irony is a device, usually found in plays, in which one character is unaware of information that the audience or reader knows. It is used to create tension or provide humor. (A) What is the dramatic irony in the scene when Misha accompanies Janina’s family on their way to the ghetto? (B) What is the effect of the device?

Chapter 16-22 Vocabulary

Chapter 16 1. What is being built and why? 2. What did Janina’s father, Mr. Milgrom, do?

Chapter 17 1. Who do you think might have turned in the boys at the stable? 2. What type of work do Janina’s parents do after entering the ghetto? 3. Why does Misha think he’s a lucky orphan? 4. Simile (A) What is being compared in the following simile? The bricks were red, the sky was brilliant blue, the knots in the barbed wire sparkled like ladies’ earrings. (B) How does Misha’s observation reveal his state of mind? Why didn’t he simply say, “the knots in the barbed wire were shiny”?

Chapter 18 1. What does Misha notice that everyone else is ignoring? 2. What do you think happened to the shoes and socks of the dead people on the street? Typhus: Disease caused by bacteria that is spread by lice and ticks; usually in very poor and cold areas where hygiene is bad.

Theme Write A stereotype is an oversimplified image of a group of people, usually held in common by some part of society. 1. How can stereotypes be harmful? 2. What do you think people can do to overcome stereotyping? 3. Have you ever noticed any examples of stereotyping in your community or in the media? (provide example)