Book: Marianthe's Story, Book Two: Spoken Memories
Author: Aliki Brandenberg
ISBN: 978-0-688-15661-9
U$1.00-B-0.006065-BE-165
Comments: I enjoyed this story. It had a twist at the end. I think parents will appreciate it more than the children. It is a nice story of a student learning a new language and being in a new environment.
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Questions
1. What is going on, on page 1?
2. Who is the picture on page 2 different from your neighborhood?
3. How was the road during summer?
4. How was the environment when Marianthe was born?
5. What season do you think Marianthe was born?
6. What did the relatives bring when Marianthe was born?
7. Who shared the good and the bad?
8. What happened to Marianthe's village?
9. Whose baby brother died?
10. What is famine?
11. What do you notice on page 7?
12. Who do you think is Yanni?
13. Who do you think is Nona?
14. Who do you think is Theo on page 10?
15. What did Theo bring Marianthe?
16. Do you think Marianthe lives in a city or a village?
17. What else did Theo bring besides drawing paper?
18. How far was the nearest school?
19. Could everyone read the newspapers Theo would bring to the village?
20. What are they doing on page 11?
21. What did people try not to notice?
22. From where did they haul water?
23. What chores did the village share?
24. What did the village make for each other?
25. Why did the village help to plow the fields and harvest the crops?
26. Does page 14-15 remind you of your family? Does your family get together like Marianthe's?
27. How many people are parts of Marianthe's family on page 17?
28. What do you notice in the drawing on page 19?
29. Why were people leaving the village?
30. Who would normally leave the villages first?
31. Who was Theo like?
32. What did mama mean by "sweeter than the soap we make"?
33. Do you think the women at the village made their own soap?
34. What did Theo read to the family?
35. There's a clue on page 21 that tells how Theo is related to mama and Marianthe?
36. How did some people from the village feel about Marianthe starting school so far away?
37. What does this quote on page 22, "She is only a girl," mean to you?
38. What does this quote on page 22, "Girls don't need books to clean the house," mean to you?
39. What does this quote on page 22, "Girls need books to find other worlds, just like boys," mean to you?
40. Look at the drawing on page 24, what could the students on their way to school be thinking?
41. What other message do you think Marianthe was sending her father by writing letters to him?
42. Describe what you see on page 27.
43. Do you know someone who has gone through something like Marianthe?
Author: Aliki Brandenberg
ISBN: 978-0-688-15661-9
U$1.00-B-0.006065-BE-165
Comments: I enjoyed this story. It had a twist at the end. I think parents will appreciate it more than the children. It is a nice story of a student learning a new language and being in a new environment.
Answer Key
Directory of Books
Questions
1. What is going on, on page 1?
2. Who is the picture on page 2 different from your neighborhood?
3. How was the road during summer?
4. How was the environment when Marianthe was born?
5. What season do you think Marianthe was born?
6. What did the relatives bring when Marianthe was born?
7. Who shared the good and the bad?
8. What happened to Marianthe's village?
9. Whose baby brother died?
10. What is famine?
11. What do you notice on page 7?
12. Who do you think is Yanni?
13. Who do you think is Nona?
14. Who do you think is Theo on page 10?
15. What did Theo bring Marianthe?
16. Do you think Marianthe lives in a city or a village?
17. What else did Theo bring besides drawing paper?
18. How far was the nearest school?
19. Could everyone read the newspapers Theo would bring to the village?
20. What are they doing on page 11?
21. What did people try not to notice?
22. From where did they haul water?
23. What chores did the village share?
24. What did the village make for each other?
25. Why did the village help to plow the fields and harvest the crops?
26. Does page 14-15 remind you of your family? Does your family get together like Marianthe's?
27. How many people are parts of Marianthe's family on page 17?
28. What do you notice in the drawing on page 19?
29. Why were people leaving the village?
30. Who would normally leave the villages first?
31. Who was Theo like?
32. What did mama mean by "sweeter than the soap we make"?
33. Do you think the women at the village made their own soap?
34. What did Theo read to the family?
35. There's a clue on page 21 that tells how Theo is related to mama and Marianthe?
36. How did some people from the village feel about Marianthe starting school so far away?
37. What does this quote on page 22, "She is only a girl," mean to you?
38. What does this quote on page 22, "Girls don't need books to clean the house," mean to you?
39. What does this quote on page 22, "Girls need books to find other worlds, just like boys," mean to you?
40. Look at the drawing on page 24, what could the students on their way to school be thinking?
41. What other message do you think Marianthe was sending her father by writing letters to him?
42. Describe what you see on page 27.
43. Do you know someone who has gone through something like Marianthe?
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