1a. What name was on the sign lying on Nanjing Road?
2a. How did the crowd react when the student inspectors cut open the man's pants leg?
3a. According to Du Hai, why was greeting your teachers a fourold?
4a. How effective did the "destroy the four olds" campaign seem to be in creating a sense of unity and strength among the people?
5a. In which ways did Du Hai and Yang Fan accuse An Yi and Ji-li of spreading the four olds?
6a. Why does Ji-li respond to the campaign and the Cultural Revolution the way she does?
1b. Why were people trying to break the sign?
2b. Why did some people seem nervous?
3b. How did Du Hai feel about teachers?
4b. In what ways might the campaign have backfired? For example, imagine that the crowd turned on the student inspectors. How might that have happened? Rewrite that scene based on your ideas.
5b. Consider how the "destroy the four olds" campaign influenced people's thinking. What might Du Hai have said about Grandpa Hong's bookstall?
6b. How would you have responded to these restrictions? Why?
Memoir. In the selection "Destroy the Four Olds!" do you learn more about Ji-li or about the Cultural Revolution? Explain your answer.
Motive. What is the student inspectors' motive in responding to the Cultural Revolution? Do you think Ji-li's parents and grandmother share this motive? Why, or why not?
1. Write a paragraph or two in the form of a memoir, telling a story about an event you participated in or witnessed.
2. Write a few lines of dialogue between two students arguing over a seat on the bus. Imagine the dialogue is for a role-playing exercise in conflict management.
3. Write a memo to Ji-li from one of her teachers, either encouraging her to participate in the "destroy the four olds" campaign or discouraging her from doing so.
Words in Context. Insert each of the following words in one of the blanks in the sentences below. You may have to change the tense of some of the words.
1. James was ____________________ in his decision not to play baseball this summer.
2. Many people ____________________ the idea of a new road through the park.
3. Sylvia fought off the ____________________ with her umbrella and a shopping bag full of batteries.
4. The Tornadoes ____________________ in their success after an undefeated soccer season.
5. The detectives were ____________________ in their search for the murder suspect, searching every home in the area.
6. Angie's model airplane was ____________________ after the lawn mower ran over it.
7. The young puppy knows that Rex is bigger and stronger, so she always strikes a(n) ____________________ pose when the older dog approaches.
8. The students felt ____________________ under the new stricter rules.
9. Du Hai knew that too much candy was ____________________ to his health, yet he still scarfed down a couple of chocolate bars every day.
10. The successes of this past month should prove to be a(n) ____________________ sign of a wonderful future.
11. We could hear Grandpa ____________________ as he watched the game show in the living room.
12. The leaves on the trees ____________________ in the breeze as the storm approached.
13. My parents hope for peace and ____________________ in their future retirement years.
14. The summer's ____________________ storms destroyed many buildings and took down many trees.
15. After having been shoved out of the lunch line, a(n) ____________________ Sonja marched to tell a teacher about what had happened.
Tracking History: Timeline. Make a timeline like the one below, looking for major changes in China's leadership, culture, and economy through history.
Debating.Organize in small groups of six to eight students. Divide your group in half, creating opposing sides for a debate. Side one favors strict rules and harsh consequences for breaking the rules. Side two feels that people can monitor their own behavior and believes in few restrictions. Together, jot down some specific points supporting your side's position. Then regroup to debate the issue, with the goal of reaching an agreement. For more assistance in holding a debate, see the Language Arts Survey 4.21, "Participating in a Debate."
Debating: Arguments. Use the left side of this worksheet to write the arguments that support your group's position. Use the right side to write the opposing group's arguments.
Perfect Tenses. The perfect tenses express past, present, and future, but they add information about actions that continued over a period of time and were completed in the past or will be completed in the present or future. All perfect tenses use some form of the helping verb to have. Read the Language Arts Survey 3.64, "Perfect Tenses," for examples of verbs in the perfect tenses. Then write sentences using each of the following verb phrases.
1. have been going
2. had ridden
3. will have used
4. have finished
5. will have been attending
6. have disappeared
7. will have won
8. have been writing
9. will have been playing
10. had been fixing
