5th - Reading - Chang and the Bamboo Flute

Question 0

Sometimes an author tells you want a character’s motives are but other times you must uses clues in the text and your own knowledge. A character’s motives are revealed through what?

Answer 0

Traits, thoughts, words and actions.

Question 1

What are the reasons the character acts as he or she does?

Answer 1

Character’s motives

Question 2

Understanding a character’s motives can help you what?

Answer 2

Understand why the events in a story happen.

Question 3

You have forced it away from a surface.

Answer 3

Pried

Question 4

Wanting something so much that you’ll do almost anything to get it.

Answer 4

Desperately

Question 5

You showed with your words and expressions that you had little respect for that person

Answer 5

Sneered

Question 6

You show irritation because you feel you have been insulted or treated unfairly.

Answer 6

Indignantly

Question 7

It is important that it be done right away.

Answer 7

Urgently

Question 8

You say it without really wanting to.

Answer 8

Grudgingly

Question 9

In what genre is the story written?

Answer 9

Historical Fiction

Question 10

Is about people, places, and events from the past?

Answer 10

Historical Fiction

Question 11

In what point of view is the story written?

Answer 11

Third point of view

Question 12

Based on the title and pictures, predict what you think this story will be about?

Answer 12

A boy named Chang who has a bamboo flute.

Question 13

Why do you think Chang shares his music only with his family and close friends? (p. 82-83)

Answer 13

It’s the only way he can speak because he is mute.

Question 14

What problem do Chang and his family face? What is the conflict? (p. 82-83)

Answer 14

The problem is flooding - the water on the River rises. The conflict is the the storm damages their houseboat.

Question 15

How does the mood in Chang’s family change as they work on the boat? Use details from the story to support your answer. (p. 84-85)

Answer 15

They became more hopeful. Soon his father would be catching and selling fish so they could earn money to get their houseboat as good as ever. If his father was hopeful then Chang felt things weren’t so bad.

Question 16

What do you think will happen as a result of the loss of the wok? Why?

Answer 16

The family will have to eat food differently from how they did before. Because with wok gone his mother will have to use another pot to cook their meals.

Question 17

Why do you think Chang would gladly have given up his checkers game and his kite in place of his mother’s wok?

Answer 17

He wanted the storm to have taken his toys instead of his mother’s prized wok.

Question 18

What does the author mean when she says that a “sharp sorrow stabbed Chang?”

Answer 18

The author is describing how badly Chang feels about his mother losing her wok.

Question 19

Is hinting at, but withholding important information about events in the story to make the reader interested in finding out what will happen next?

Answer 19

Foreshadowing

Question 20

What “hard, painful thing” do you think Chang will do to help his mother?

Answer 20

He will give up/sell/trade his bamboo flute.

Question 21

Why does Chang want the wok with the lid so badly? (p. 88-89)

Answer 21

The wok with the lid was better (handsomer) than his mother’s wok had been.

Question 22

What kind of person is Zhoa? (p. 88-89)

Answer 22

Zhoa is mean.

Question 23

How do you think Chang feels when Zhoa offers to trade him pencils for his flute? (p. 88-89)

Answer 23

He was hurt because the trader didn’t value his flute as Chang did.

Question 24

How are Bo Won’s and Chang’s motives for wanting Chang to play the flute different? (p. 90-91)

Answer 24

Bo Won wants to hear good music and allow Chang to be able to make some money from the crowd. Chang was thinking that this might be the last time he got to play his flute.

Question 25

How does Chang resolve his conflict? (p. 90-91)

Answer 25

Chang plays his flute and the crowd throws money at his feet. He then uses the money to buy the new wok with the lid.

Question 26

Was your prediction about what Chang planned to do correct? What story information did you use to confirm or revise your prediction? (p. 90-91)

Answer 26

No, I thought he would trade his flute for a wok for his mother but he played his flute for the crowd and they threw money to him which he used to buy the new wok with lid.

Question 27

How do Chang’s feelings about sharing his music change during the story? Use story details to explain your answer. (p. 92)

Answer 27

In the beginning, Chang only played his flute in private. It was very important to him, something he only shared with his family and close friends. At the end, Chang realized that this might be his last chance ever to play so he decided to play anyway - let the crowd think whatever they liked of his music.