Core 4 - "The Jacket" by Gary Soto

...but in rain or cold weather the tape peeled off like a scab....

T/F- Sequence means the order in which events happen.

T/F Conflict is struggle or a problem in a story or selection.

Frankie T., the playground terrorist, pushed me to the ground....

To show his upset tone towards the jacket at the end of the narrative, the author compares it to -

When the narrator wore the jacket, girls who had once been friendly to him began to -

How does the narrator say that he looked in the jacket?

T/F Point of View is through whose eyes a story is told.

T/F Personal narrative is a piece of writing that describes an incident that has a personal reflection on the incident

...my arms feeling like braille from goosebumps....

What happened to the jacket when Gary Soto teased Brownie, his dog?

T/F Effect is the result of an even or action.

"Girls who had been friendly blew away like loose flowers to follow the boys in neat jackets."

"When I played hard, read quietly, or took vicious spelling tests at school."

When Soto compares the jacket to a brother, you understand that he -

T/F Cause is an initial action; or an event that makes something happen.

Which event did Soto imagine happened on the first day he wore the jacket?

The narrator's mother probably told him about the children in Mexico who would love the jacket to -

..tape peeled off like a scab and more stuffing fell out until that sleeve shriveled into a palsied arm.

Soto, the narrator, was so embarrassed by the jacket that he -

The jacket first got damaged when the narrator -

I touched the vinyl sleeve, the collar, and peeked at the mustard-colored lining.

"My clothes failed me"

T/F Internal conflict is character struggling with own needs, desires, thoughts or emotions.

"...leaned against the chainlink fence and looked around with propellers of grass spinning." -

T/F External conflict is character struggling with another character or something in nature.

Why did the author yell at his mother?

The narrator was so embarrassed by the jacket that he -

I swiped the jacket off the ground and went inside to drape it across my lap and mope.