Kira-Kira Ch 1, p. 1-8

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What does kira-kira mean in Japanese?

• suss

• glittering

• Katie

• America

How does Katie know so many details about when she was very little?

• She reads her sister's diary

• She has a photographic memory
• She was a toddler YouTuber and she rewatches the videos a lot

• She kept a diary

Lynn thinks the color of the sky, the ocean, and people’s eyes is special. Why?

• Because they all contain hydrogen

• Because Katie has blue eyes

• The color is both deep and see-through

• They are all shades of blue

What does Lynn do when she sees the dog licking the glass?

• She says, "Who cares."

• She sprays water at the dog to stop it from cutting itself on the glass

• She says, "I hope it cuts up its insides and does a painful death."

• She just walks away.

CHOOSE ONE:

1. 1. What do you notice about point of view? Through whose eyes do we see the world of the story? How far away are the events described? Is the narrator describing things that are happening now –– or things that happened in the past? How can you tell?

3. 2. Even though the dog attacked her, Lynn saved the dog from cutting up its tongue and insides on the broken glass. Choose a character trait you think her behavior here shows she has and explain why.

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1. CHOOSE ONE:

2. 1. How is Katie's memory of the dog in the cornfield different from Lynn's?

 

1. 2. What’s something strange or scary that happened to you and someone else (a friend or family member) that you each remember differently?

What's your number?

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