The Pearl Chapters 1-5

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.RI.11-12.9

CCSS.RL.11-12.2

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.RI.11-12.9

CCSS.RL.11-12.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

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.

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.

What do you think the "Song of the Family" represents?

• all that is new and interesting in their life
• all that is familiar and good in Kino and Juana’s life, and also an unchanging tone. Their life is simple.
• a song that Juana sings 
• a song that is heard in the village 

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CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.7

CCSS.RL.6.9

How is the difference in social class described in the text?

• some people have have canoes and others have horses 
• some of the people go to church and others do not
• Kino and Juana live on the beach in a hut, and the doctor lives in the stone and plaster city in a large house with a gate and servants
• some people have children and others do not 

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CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.9

What does Juana think the pearl will give their family?

• A new house.
• The power to change their social status.
• The ability to heal Coyotito.
• A new wardrobe of Eurpean fashion.

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CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.7

CCSS.RL.6.9

What do the pearl buyers want?

• to make a profit

• to get the lowest possibe price for a pearl

• to get the highest possible price for a pearl

• to make the patron happy

What does Juan Thomas warn Kino?

• that Juana will try to throw the pearl in the ocean

• that the buyers will try to cheat them

• that the priest can't be trusted

• that the doctor will hurt Coyotito