BarbedWireBaseballVocabularyandStoryQuestions

Descent means:

• background of someone - where their relatives are from

• to be in a prison camp

• a type of baseball game played on a field

• being able to evaluate ideas or summarize texts

Internment camps are

• a prison like area, often during a war

• a camp where you go to have fun

• a prison for criminals

• a camp in Japan for Americans

A desolate place is a place that

• is fully, happy, and full of joy

• is empty, lonely, and unhappy

• is a dry desert location

• is a field

Diverted means:

• change the direction of

• dig in the dirt

• cultivate a plant

• be captured and sent to an internment camp

someone that's a spectator

• paints pictures

• makes things out of materials

• watches an event

• emerges from water

Barbed Wire Baseball is : biography or autobiography

The story structure of Barbed Wire Baseball is

• chronological

• cause/effect

• magazine article

• problem/solution

To make the best of a terrible situation, the main character:

• contacted people in Fresno to complain

• was sad at the internment camp

• built a baseball field

• escaped while the guards in the watchtower saw

The story takes place soon after 1941. In 1941:

• The president allowed Japanese Americans to be sent to prison-like camps

• The president sent Japanese Americans to Japan

• The president did not do anything to endanger anyones' lives

• The president allowed Japanese Americans to have trials to see if they needed to go away

True or False: The government forced Zeni and other Japanese Americans into internment camps

• True

• False