HW Mr. Padilla 2.8.17

Homework: Parents/guardians, please help your child with today’s homework. 

Option 3:

Mrs. Nakamura took the children out into the street. They had nothing on but underpants, and although the day was very hot, she worried rather confusedly about their being cold, so she went back…and found a bundle of clothes she had packed for an emergency, and she dressed them …The children were silent, except for the five-year-old, Myeko, who kept asking questions: “Why is it night already? Why did our house fall down? What happened?” Mrs. Nakamura, who did not know what had happened … looked around and saw through the darkness that all the houses in her neighborhood had collapsed, The house next door… was…torn down; its owner… lay dead.

1. How did Mrs. Nakamura take care of her children and why?

2. What did Myeko want to know?

3. What did Mrs. Nakamura see outside?

4. You that the Japanese started the war when they bombed Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, USA. You learned that Japanese soldiers were really cruel to American prisoners. Also, Japanese soldiers fought to the death and would not surrender.  Do you believe that dropping the A bomb on Japan had to be done? Explain why? Think of what you just read.

Option 2:

Mrs. Nakamura took the children out into the street. They had nothing on but underpants, … the day was very hot, she worried rather … about their being cold, so she went back…and found a bundle of clothes she had packed for an emergency, and she dressed them …The children were silent, except for the five-year-old, Myeko, who kept asking questions: “Why is it night already? Why did our house fall down? What happened?” Mrs. Nakamura, who did not know what had happened … looked around and saw… her neighborhood had collapsed, The house next door… was…torn down; its owner… lay dead.

1.        What did Mrs. Nakamura do?

2.        What did she worry about?

3.        How did the kids behave?

4.        What did her daughter Myeko want to know?

5.        What did Mrs. Nakamura know? What did she see?

Option 1:

Mrs. Nakamura took the children out into the street. They had nothing on…,

1.    What did Mrs. Nakamura do?

 … the day was very hot, she worried… about their being cold, …she went back…and found …clothes

2.    What did she worry about?

 she had packed for an emergency, and she dressed them …The children were silent, except for the five-year-old,

3.    How did the kids behave?

 Myeko, who kept asking questions: “Why is it night already? Why did our house fall down? What happened?”

4.    What did her daughter Myeko want to know?

Mrs. Nakamura, who did not know what had happened … her neighborhood had collapsed, The house next door… was…torn down; its owner… lay dead.

5.    What did Mrs. Nakamura know? What did she see?

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