Roar Book: Monkey Bridge by Lan Cao

5-4-3-2-1

5.Comments:

• I wish that I will get to learn about the Paris Peace Accords of 1973 in my history class.
• Mai seems to think as an adult even though she is about to become an adult; she look at things from different angles.
  
• Mai's grandfather have a lot of tales to tell just like my grandmother.
• Mai's grandfather is very heroic.
  
• From the sixth chapter I can tell that Mai and Uncle Michael are very close even though they are not blood related.

4.Questions:

• Where is Tan Son Nhut Airport located in Vietnam?
• Where is Can Tho located in Vietnam?
• Who or what are GIs?
• What were the guarded compounds?

3.Vocabulary:

• Decipher: to make out the meaning of
• Monotone: a vocal utterance or series of speech sounds in one unvaried tone
• Grotesque: odd or unnatural in shape, appearance, or character; fantastically ugly or absurd; bizarre

2.Literary Terms:

• Simile: "It was as if all of America were holding its breath, waiting for a deceased body, ravaged and fatigued, and now all too demanding, to let go." (page 98)
  
• Simile: "...sending metallic flashes that rotated like a typhoon across the sky." (page 99)

1.Overview Sentence:

• Mai describes the conditions in Vietnam as it gets worse.