Red Scarf Girl 4-6

Students wrote dazibao to...

• decorate the classrooms

• show the scholars were superior to workers

• brighten up the gardens in the courtyard

• criticize their teachers and the educational system

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.1

CCSS.RI.7.2

CCSS.RL.7.1

CCSS.RL.7.2

Why did Ji-li and An Yi leave the classroom and go into the school yard?

• they were looking for a newspaper to copy from so they could write a dazibao

• they were tired of reading dazibao and needed some fresh air

• they went to look for ideas and to show they didn't have a bad attitude about writing dazibao

• they wanted to get away from the teachers they had begun to distrust

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.1

CCSS.W.7.9A

Why did someone write the principal's name upside down?

• Someone's sister said that's what courts used to do to criminals

• Some dazibao hung upside down from the parasol trees

• Two students facing each other could work on one dazibao together

• The principal felt she was just as guilty as the teachers so she told the students to do it

What complaint did Yin Lan-lan have about her education?

• her classmates were always laughing at her

• she didn't have time to study because she had to do more housework than the rich students

• she couldn't do her homework because she was so busy participating in the school choir

• her grades were usually good, but she had to miss a lot of school because she was out sick

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.1

CCSS.RI.7.2

CCSS.RL.7.1

CCSS.RL.7.2

One student at Ji-li's school wrote a dazibao accusing a teacher of

• being an obedient little lamb

• acting like a mother to her students

• hurting a student's eyesight because he made him read too much

• cheating in order to win a Model Teacher award

Why didn't some of Ji-li's classmates like Aunt Xi-wen?

• she didn't treat her son well

• she yelled at them as they walked by her house on the way to school

• she had publicly criticized Chairman Mao

• she wore makeup and western-style dress and complained about the students to the school

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.3

CCSS.RL.7.1

Why didn’t Ji-li ask to switch from the student group confronting her Aunt Xi-wen to the student group confronting Old Qian?

• she wanted to punish her Aunt for complaint about the students taking mulberry leaves from her yard

• she didn't want the other students to criticize her for choosing a relative over "correct" political behavior

• she liked Old Qian and didn't want to post a dazibao about him or hurt him in any way

• the leaders had told everyone they couldn't switch when they assigned the groups

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.1

CCSS.RI.7.3

CCSS.RL.7.1

CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.W.7.9A

What did the students force Aunt Xi-wen to do?

• speak out against Chairman Mao

• give them mulberry leaves whenever they wanted them

• leave town and promise to never return

• put up a poster that was written against her and then read it aloud

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CCSS.RI.7.3

What did the dazibao about Ji-li accuse her of?

• running away form her problems

• helping Yin Lan-lan with her arithmetic

• having an improper relationship with her teacher

• being a monster and a class enemy

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.1

CCSS.RL.7.1

CCSS.W.7.9A

That night, when An Yi was talking to Ji-li in the school yard, she began to cry. Why did An Yi begin to cry?

• she had seen a dazibao written against Ji-li and felt sorry for her

• she was afraid of the ghostly shadows of the parasol trees

• she felt sorry that Yin-Lan-lan had been treated unfairly by her teachers

• she was angry with Ji-li for having an improper relationship with a teacher

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.1

CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.7.6