Barbed Wire Baseball

What characteristics tell you that Barbed Wire Baseball is a biography?

• The author is telling the story of Zeni's life. The text includes historical events in chronological order.

• The author is telling about a time Zeni played baseball.

• The selection is a biography because there are multiple characters in the story.

• The author includes illustrations to show what the events in the story were like.

Why does Marissa Moss include dialogue in a biography?

• Dialogue is included to help the reader understand how to play baseball.

• The author includes dialogue to show what the characters’ voices sound like.

• She includes dialogue to show what Zeni was like and what he may have said during his life.

• None of the above

Why did other people from the internment camp help Zeni make a baseball field?

• The other people helped Zeni because the commander made them since they were in an internment camp. The project was part of their punishment.

• They helped Zeni because they wanted didn’t have anything else to do. They were bored and wanted to keep themselves busy.

• They helped Zeni because they were inspired by his project, and they wanted to see if it would work. The project gave them hope and helped them remember what their lives had been like before living in camp.

• They helped Zeni because he looked like he was struggling to get it done.

Analyze the way Zeni approached his baseball field project. What does that tell you about him?

• The project showed that Zeni liked working outside with his hands. He missed being able to work in his own yard at home.

• Zeni was determined to play baseball even though he was homesick and powerless in the camp. The baseball field project made him feel like the champion he was.

• Zeni liked being able to bond with his sons. The project allowed them to spend more time together.

• The project showed that Zeni had a hard time following rules because he was making this baseball field and working on it at night when he wasn’t supposed to leave his barrack.