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  • What is the conflict in Leona's Chapter?
    All the Garbage in the lot
  • Define/describe gestures
    talking/communicating with our hands
  • How does Wendell react when he sees Kim in the vacant lot?
    Smiles, shows her that he is watering her plants
  • What does Wendell do for a job?
    school janitor
  • Who sees Kim in the vacant lot from her window?
    Ana
  • Define/describe the word vacant
    empty
  • Describe what the vacant lot is like on the day Kim visits?
    Messy, trashy, tires, old couch and rats
  • What is an occupation?
    another word for/synonym for job
  • Even though Sam wants the people in his community to be connected, what does he notice happening in the garden?
    People are only talking to the people they know and have things in common with. The garden is becoming divided.
  • Leona found out that the city of Cleveland owned the lot. How did she get them to clean up the garbage that had been dumped there?
    She took a bag of trash to her meeting at the Public Health Department and opened it up for everyone to smell
  • What did we learn about Wendell's life in the beginning of Chapter 3?
    his son and his wife both died
  • What is an obituary?
    A summary written about a person's life after they have passed away. It highlights their family, job, hobbies and interests to celebrate their life.
  • How does Leona help the community garden?
    She gets the Health Department to clean the garbage out of the lot.
  • What does Kim plant in the vacant lot outside her apartment?
    beans
  • Define/describe a bodega
    small corner store for groceries
  • What is Gonzolo's equation?
    The older you are, the younger you become when you move to the USA
  • Why does Kim plant the beans in the vacant lot?
    in hopes her dead father would see she could grow something
  • Why did Leona decide that she wanted to plant goldenrod in the community garden?
    Her grandmother drank goldenrod tea every day
  • Define/describe what it means to recognize
    to notice and understand.
  • What is an important character trait to know about Sam?
    He wants people in his community to be connected to eachother
  • When the garden gets crowded, what does Sam notice?
    Different races separated and didn't interact, fences and keep out signs.
  • How are Gonzalo and Wendell connected?
    Gonzalo goes to the school where Wendell works
  • What did Gonzalo mean when he says, "the older you are when you come to the US, the younger you get?"
    the language keeps older people from getting comfortable in the US
  • Who is Tio Juan to Gonzalo?
    Great Uncle
  • Define/describe the word thrive
    growing nicely
  • What do Wendell, Tio Juan and Kim have in common?
    knowledge of plants/farming
  • What does Ana think Kim buried in the vacant lot?
    guns or drugs
  • What was Leona's grandmother known for?
    outliving all of her doctors to the age of 99
  • What does Wendell decide to bring home from work? Why?
    shovel; to plant and grow things in the lot
  • When Ana looks out the window what does she see?
    vacant lot, sliver of Lake Erie, 48 apartment windows
  • Describe Tio Juan. Who is he?
    Gonzalo's great uncle, he only speaks a native Indian language
  • Why does Ana spend so much time looking out her window?
    She is lonely and it is entertainment to her, much like watching tv
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