The Pot that Juan Built

Question 1

Juan pats out a flat piece of clay from the bottom of the pot, what happens next?

Accepted Answer

Juan rolls a sausage piece of clay

Question 2

What does prosperous mean?

Accepted Answer

You are successful and have money

Question 3

How did the culture of the Casas Grandes people influence Juan?

Accepted Answer

contributed to the pottery process

Question 4

In what sequence was Juan's jobs if he was a farm laborer?

Accepted Answer

laborer, railroad hand, sharecropper, boxer, potter

Question 5

Authors Craft: Identify visual details author uses to describe how Juan gets materials

Accepted Answer

from deer, cattle, plants and beans

Question 6

Authors Craft: What words does the author use to describe Juan's pottery?

Accepted Answer

perfectly fired art

Question 7

Painting methods, story events, and facts are all evidence of what?

Accepted Answer

narrative non-fiction text

Question 8

Mata Ortiz people no longer had to leave town to work. How is this connected to prosperity?

Accepted Answer

Benefit and earn money from what they learned from Juan

Question 9

Which word is describes clay bricks?

Accepted Answer

adobe

Question 10

The illustration depicts what kind of landscape?

Accepted Answer

desert

Question 11

What words does the authors craft use to describe Juan?

Accepted Answer

hard worker takes pride

Question 12

Juan learn that cow manure from what form of product worked best for firing his pottery?

Accepted Answer

grass manure

Question 13

Authors Craft: Animal Characters - Why does the author write about ants?

Accepted Answer

Ants made the finest clay

Question 14

In what ways is Juan's production of pottery natural?

Accepted Answer

Natural materials used to make, polish, & paint the pottery

Question 15

Juan was 12 when he hound his first potsherds, what would be the next event that happens?

Accepted Answer

Juan was inspired by broken pottery to make art

Question 16

The genre narrative nonfiction can be described as..?

Accepted Answer

information about places, real people, and events

Questions 16