Students will need:
Reading Textbook, Practice Book,
and a pencil
What does the name Gold
Mountain tell you about the way
Chinese immigrants thought of
the United States?
Does Angel
Averted
means
Island
thatfeel
they
like
looked
a
away from the
welcoming
place
luktoyi.Kai on this
first morning there?
What game are the boys in the
yard playing? How do you know?
Let’s start to fill in the graphic
organizer on page 19 of our
Practice Book. (Next Slide)
Angel
Island
Kai and
Young
The boys follow the same routine day
after day as they wait to be questioned
by immigration officers.
What kind of life do you think Kai
expected to find in Gold
Mountain?
Contrast the mood in the barracks
on days when someone was
allowed to leave tha go to San
Francisco with days when people
were sent back to China.
What feelings did the old man’s
poem express about Angel Island?
Keeping track of a story’s
characters, setting, and plot
events will help you better
understand what you read. Let’s
continue filling in Practice Book
page 19. (next slide)
Kai waits for his interrogation but it
doesn’t take place. He reads the old
man’s sad poem and feels lonely.
While playing basketball, Kai and
Young trick the guard. They gather
plums from the tree.
Why was Kai so excited to see the
plum tree?
Explain how Kai and Young got
the plums.
After five weeks, Kai still believed
that he would make it to the
United States. What does this tell
you about his character?
How many
Why
did Young
people
look
were
envious
involved
when
in
Kai’sheinterrogation?
saw Kai leave for
What
his were
interrogation?
their
roles?
What do you think Kai’s
interrogator was trying to
determine about him by asking
the questions he did?
What
do you
thefelt
adults
in
Compare
thethink
way Kai
at the
the
room thought
about Kai’s in
beginning
of his interrogation,
response
to the
about
the middle
of it,question
and at the
end.
the chairs? Why?
Did Kai feel better after his
interrogation? Why or why not?
Why did Kai bow solemnly to
each person before he left Angel
Island?
Why do you think Young wouldn’t
say goodbye to Kai? Would you
have felt the same way?
It is time for Kai’s interrogation.
The interrogator begins to ask
tricky questions. Kai begins to
become bold as he answers them.
After waiting for days, Kai finds out
he will be allowed to join his father.
How is Kai’s memory of Angel
Island in the second paragraph on
page 126 like a summary?
What are some of the different
emotions that Kai and his father
must have felt as the ferry
approached the dock?
Did the story turn out the way you
predicted? Why or why not?
Kai leaves Angel Island for San
Francisco. He meets his father at the
dock. He finally feels that he has
arrived at Gold Mountain.