The Pearl Chapters 1-3 2020

The Main Protagonists of the story are...(choose ALL that apply)

• Kino

• Juana

• Coyotito

• The Doctor

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CCSS.RI. 9-10.9

CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

The initial conflict of the story is...

• Kino and Juana are too poor to pay the doctor.

• Kino and Juana do not believe the doctor can help thier baby.

• Kino and Jauana believe their more traditional medicines (seaweed police) will heal their baby better than the doctor can, since the doctor just wants money.

• Coyotito was struck by a scorpion.

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CCSS.RI. 9-10.9

CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

The antagonist of the story is...

• Kino

• Juana

• Coyotito

• The Doctor

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CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

According to the doctor, Kino's people are.....

• Civilized

• Uncivilized

What does it mean when the text says, “The doctor looked past his aging patient and saw himself in a restaurant in Pairs and a waiter was just opening a bottle of wine?”

• The Pearl may make Kino protective but it is also giving him dreams of how he can give his family things he’s never given to them before. Like a wedding and new clothes.

• It means that they are comparing the pearl to the scorpion that wealth is the poison that is making the people in the town greedy “evil” thinking only about themselves.

• It means that it is often said that people who have so little give so much. Because Kino knows what it’s like to go without, he may be more willing to give to those who do not have much now that he does.

• It means that even though the doctor rejected Kino before, now he is call him his patient so that he can get a lot of money from him and go live in a better place like Paris and eat good food and drink again.

The beggars: “they knew that there is no alms (charity) giving in the world like a poor man.

• The Pearl may make Kino protective but it is also giving him dreams of how he can give his family things he’s never given to them before. Like a wedding and new clothes.

• It means that it is often said that people who have so little give so much. Because Kino knows what it’s like to go without, he may be more willing to give to those who do not have much now that he does.

• It means that they are comparing the pearl to the scorpion that wealth is the poison that is making the people in the town greedy “evil” thinking only about themselves.

• It means that even though the doctor rejected Kino before, now he is call him his patient so that he can get a lot of money from him and go live in a better place like Paris and eat good food and drink again.

The scorpion bite caused a puncture in Coyotito's skin. What is the BEST definition of puncture as it is used in this sentence?

• damage, cut

• heal, repair

• a small hole

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CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

What does the following text mean? “The news stirred up something infinitely black and evil in the town; like the scorpion...the poison of the town began to sell and puff with the pressure of it.”

• The Pearl may make Kino protective but it is also giving him dreams of how he can give his family things he’s never given to them before. Like a wedding and new clothes.

• It means that it is often said that people who have so little give so much. Because Kino knows what it’s like to go without, he may be more willing to give to those who do not have much now that he does.

• It means that they are comparing the pearl to the scorpion that wealth is the poison that is making the people in the town greedy “evil” thinking only about themselves.

• It means that even though the doctor rejected Kino before, now he is call him his patient so that he can get a lot of money from him and go live in a better place like Paris and eat good food and drink again.

Kino: “he became curiously every man’s enemy”....”we will be married in a church.” “WE will have new clothes.”

• The Pearl may make Kino protective but it is also giving him dreams of how he can give his family things he’s never given to them before. Like a wedding and new clothes.

• It means that it is often said that people who have so little give so much. Because Kino knows what it’s like to go without, he may be more willing to give to those who do not have much now that he does.

• It means that they are comparing the pearl to the scorpion that wealth is the poison that is making the people in the town greedy “evil” thinking only about themselves.

• It means that even though the doctor rejected Kino before, now he is call him his patient so that he can get a lot of money from him and go live in a better place like Paris and eat good food and drink again.

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

Yesterday we read, "And suddenly he was afraid of his talking. His hand closed down over the pearl and cut the light away from it." If "light" symbolizes "joy," which text evidence best foreshadows what will happen with Kino?

• "He was a man transfigured. Some great power was given to him. You see what a great man he has become."

• "Kino's planning came to nothing. A foolish madness came over him so that he spoke foolish words."

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CCSS.RL.2.10

CCSS.RL.2.2

CCSS.RL.2.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.4.4