Picture Bride Week Four Assignments

  1. Read chapters 24-35
  1. Complete the Strategic Reading 4 Handout.

(Keeping Track of Events) Next page of this document

You may write on the worksheet directly.

DUE TUESDAY, Dec. 15, 2009 (#1-2)

3. Timeline Assignment

See page 3-4 of this document.

  1. PICTURE BRIDE TEST

DUE THURSDAY, Dec. 17, 2009 (#3-4)

Strategic Reading 4Chapters 24-35

Keeping Track of Events

As you read the final chapters, fill in the time line below to help keep track of the sequence of events.

December 7, 1941 Japanese bombed ______

1941 FBI takes ______

February 19, 1942

Mid-April 1942 Hana and Taro are ordered ______

1942 Henry Toda

1942 Hana and Taro arrive at

August 1942 Kenji and Sumiko

1942 Hana and Taro leave Tanforan to go to

January 1943 FDR issues a statement declaring that

1943 The Toda boys decide to ______

1943 There is an “accident” and Taro is ______

1943 Hana is joined by ______

Picture Bride

TIMELINE ASSIGNMENT

Objective: To create a three-part Timeline for the novel Picture Bride in order to see the

connections between actual history and this fictional novel set in historical times.

Procedure: Research historical information based on the groups of years noted below and

review key events from the novel during those same time periods.

Materials: Picture Bride novel, encyclopedias, atlases, dictionaries, computer, and other

reference and nonfiction books, coloring materials, paper.

Requirements:

  1. A total of 3 timeline sheets

1917-1921

8 events8 events (Novel)

4 events (History)

Chapters 1-17

4 illustrations total

1930-1940

8 events5 events (Novel)

4 events (History)

Chapters 18-23

3 illustrations total

1941-1943

8 events6 events (Novel)

4 events (History)

Chapters 24-35

3 illustrations total

2. Each caption for each historical or fictional event must be typed.

  1. Each illustration must be in color.
  2. Use a 8.5” X 14” paper for EACH timeline, or put a few 8.5” X 11” papers together to make papers in the size of 8.5” X 14” .
  3. For the historical events, be specific with the date (month and day) and a brief caption explaining the significant event.
  4. Historical events can be national information (about the US) or international information (something that happened elsewhere in the world).
  5. Neatly place all events for the novel and history in chronological order in each timeline.