Inside Out and Back Again pages 1-9

Text Dependent Questions - "The Year of the Cat" p. 1-3

Please answer the following in your notebook and be prepared to share out. Answer in complete sentences. Refer back to the text.

1. Tet is a special day. When is Tet, and what two events are celebrated on Tet?

2. How does the family celebrate Tet?

3. How does this special day affect the other days?

4. What does the narrator (Ha) do that might bring bad luck?

5. What can you infer about the narrator based on this action? In other words, what can you figure out about her based on what you see in the text and what you already know?

Text dependent questions "Inside Out" p. 4

1. How do the events in this poem connect to the first poem we read, "1975:Year of the Cat, " and the title of the novel, Inside Out and Back Again?

2. What does the fortune-teller foretell about the family's future?

3. Ha lives in a war-torn country. How does she hope her life will be turnedinside out?

4. Ha knows that 'inside out' probably means something different. What will probably happen?

Reread "Year of the Cat," "Inside Out," and "Kim Ha." p. 1-7

RESPOND: Based on what you have read so far in the novel, what can you infer about what will happen to Ha and her family? Be sure to use details from the text to support your answer. Your response should be a detailed and insightful paragraph.

Think about the following before, after and during your writing.

Have I answered the prompt completely?

Is the evidence I provided relevant and complete?

Does my paragraph have the following:

  • A focus statement (Your claim, your thesis, what you are going to prove)
  • At least three pieces of specific evidence from the text
  • For each piece of evidence, an analysis or explanation: what does evidence mean?
  • A concluding sentence

Text-dependent questions "Papaya Tree" p. 8-9

  1. How did the papaya tree begin to grow? Was the planting of the tree intentional or a careless act? How do you know this?
  2. From youngest to oldest, Ha describes what each brother sees on the tree? What is the pattern she describes?
  3. Ha vows to be the first to witness, or observe, the ripening of the papaya fruit. What does the word vows mean in this context?

Where else did we read that Ha wanted to be the first at something instead of her oldest brother?

  1. What can you infer or conclude about Ha's character based on the incidents she describes in these last two poems?