Amelia's Road by Linda Jacobs Altman

Book: Amelia's Road
Author:  Linda Jacobs Altman
ISBN-13: 978-1-880000-04-5
U-$1.00-B-0.0046743907-BE-214

Comments: A little girl travels from one harvest to another with her family.  She would like to stop traveling and call one place home.  Her parents are migrant farm workers.  The story demonstrates how you can find strength even though you may not have any power.






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Questions

1. What is the name of the girl?
2. Why did Amelia hate roads?
3. Why did Amelia cry every time her father took out a map?
4. Where did the roads go that Amelia knew?
5. Who labored the arms?
6. Where did Amelia want to go?
7. Why did the farm workers live in labor camps?
8. What type of house did Amelia's family have at the labor camp?
9. Did Amelia's family care about the type of housing they received?
10. Why did Amelia want to settle down and belong?
11. Where was Amelia born?
12. What month was Amelia born?
13. Why was Amelia upset that her father remembers crops and other fathers remember days and dates?
14. What did Amelia pick from 5am to 8am?
15. What does the author mean that Amelia had to be careful and not bruise the fruit?
16. What part of Amelia's body hurt after picking apples?
17. Did Amelia have to attend school after working?
18. What was the name of her elementary school?
19. What was Amelia's teacher's name?
20. What did Amelia draw on her first day of school?
21. What did Amelia find one day taking a shortcut to camp?
22. What was at the end of the road?
23. What was Amelia's sister's name?
24. What was Amelia's brother's name?
25. What did Amelia find one day?
26. What did Amelia name "The Accidental Road"?
27. What did Amelia do with the box?
28. Why didn't Amelia cry this time when it was time to leave?

Like a Windy Day by Frank Asch and Devin Asch

Book: Like a Windy Day
Author:  Frank Asch and Devin Asch
ISBN-13: 978-0-15-216376-1
U-$1.00-B-0.0046743907-BE-214

Comments: This is a nice short story.  Students at first will think the story is being told from the little girl's perspective, but it was from the winds perspective.  Challenging questions can be derived from this story like, "does the wind want to be human?"  There also seems to be a relationship between the little girl and the wind.  Students will need to define their idea of the relationship.




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Questions

1. Page 1, look at the drawing.  What do you see?  Describe in detail.
2. Who want so play?
3. Does the girl see the shape of the wind?
4. Page 3, who wants to zoom down hillsides?
5. Page 4-5, what do you notice in the drawing?
6. Page 5, is the boy with the balloon being picked up by the wind?
7. Page 6-7, It says, "I want to scatter seeds, turn windmills."  Who is talking, the girl or the wind? How do you know who is talking?
8. Page 8-9, who is controlling the kite?
9. Page 10-11, do you think the wind is a child or an adult?
10. Do you think the wind is a girl or a boy? How do you know?
11. Page 12-13, whose perspective is this story being told by?
12. Page 14-15, how many people lost hats?
13. How many people kept their hats?
14. Why do you think the wind wants to steal hats?
15. Page 16-17, who is the girl on page 16 chasing?
16. Is the wind trying to catch the leaf?  If so, why?
17. Page 18-19, is the wind stealing umbrellas?  If so, why?
18. Do you see another image of the wind?
19. Page 20-21, why does the wind want to shake the dew from a spider's web to help her babies soar?
20. Page 22-23, does the little girl feel safe around the wind?  How do you know?
21. Page 24, can you go surfing wearing a dress and a scarf?
22. Page 25, why does the author write, "I want to play like a windy day."  Who is talking, the girl or the wind?
23. Page 27, the wind is holding the girl.  Are the wind and the girl friends?
24. Page 28, what type of friendship does the wind and the girl have?
25. Do you think the wind wants to be human?