Core 4 - "The Jacket" by Gary Soto

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"My clothes failed me"

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 -

Why did the author yell at his mother?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The narrator was so embarrassed by the jacket that he -

The jacket first got damaged when the narrator -

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