Tangerine Pre-Reading Questions

Directions: Respond to all parts of the questions

using thoughtful complete sentences.No credit will
be given for partial answers.
1. Preview the book by After presenting the book
reading the title and the I think this book will
author’s name and by mostly be about a boy who
looking at the is not good at sports and
illustration on the joins the soccer team.
cover. What do you think
the book will be about?
2. What role do you think Parents have a big role
parents play in in determining how their
determining how their students act outside the
teenagers act outside the house because if you
home? What role do you train a child right he
think their friends and will never depart from
classmates play in the it. Also, friends have a
way they behave? big role in how a child
behaves because he rubs
off everything they say
and do and that can cause
a negative influence or
even a positive
influence.
3. Paul, the main I think some people find
character in the novel, this appealing because
lives in a housing some people are different
development in which and like an organized
strict rules ensure that consistent appearance,
the houses maintain an and some like to be
organized consistent different. I would not
appearance. like to live in this
Everything-even the community because I would
mailboxes and the color want to be free in a
of the houses- must unique community.
conform to certain
standards. Why do you
think some people find
this kind of community
appealing? Would you like
this kind of community?
4. Many environmental The kind of stresses that
problems plague the development housing might
community in which Paul place upon the natural
lives. What kind of environment would kill a
stresses might a housing lot of habitat for
development place upon animals and The mass
its natural environment? output of energy from
What would be an heat, light and the
effective way to deal burning of fossil fuels
with these problems? contributes to huge
amounts of CO2 being
produced every time a
house is built. An
effective way to build
houses without harming
the environment would be
using natural products
like wood, brick, and
recycled steel.
5. Are there any Yes there are some
environmental problems in environmental issues in
your community? Are they my community, but they
being addressed or are are being addressed.
they being ignored? Why Also, the community might
might a community want to want to hide its
hide its environmental environment to make it
problems? How can a more appealing to buyers
community mobilize to to sell out many houses
address these problems? to make money
6. Sibling rivalry refers My brother and I compete
to competition between in different video games
brothers and sisters. If sports and contests.
you have brothers or Siblings compete to
sisters, in what ways do define who they are
you compete with one individually. Sibling
another? Why do siblings rivalry becomes unhealthy
compete? At what point when there is frequent
does sibling rivalry conflict and fights
become an unhealthy inside the home.
competition?
7. High school football The qualities that make a
players are often person truly heroic are
idolized by their peers their personality,
and community. What are bravery, Helpful,
the qualities that make a Confident, and Honesty.
person truly heroic? Do No heroic acts don't
heroic acts always always conform to the
conform to the wishes of wishes of the community
the community? Should it should not be the case
they? Why or why not? because they do
everything not to make a
few people happy to make
the majority happy the
common good.
8. The pressure to excel Yes this pressure is good
can be formidable for a for high school athletes
high school athlete. A because it makes them
player’s performance can focus and motivate them
win him or her publicity, to achieve their goals ad
scholarship offers from it because of all the
prestigious colleges and pressure. Fare
perhaps an opportunity to sportsmanspip ca help
have a career in athletes lear and grow
professional sports. Is from their mistakes.
this kind of pressure
good for high school
athletics? Why or why
not? How does good
sportsmanship fare under
this pressure?
9. Sometimes, people keep Some kinds of secrets
secrets to protect the parents might keep from
ones they love from a kids might be about their
painful truth. What kinds young life the parents
of secrets might parents life and etc. Some family
keep from their children? secrets that might become
Under what circumstances harmful are about
do family secrets become biological parents, and
harmful? harmful secrets.

Anticipation Guide
Directions: Write agree or disagree in the box
following each statement.
Statement Agree or
disagree
1. A healthy environment depends on a Agree
delicate balance. When one element
is disturbed, the entire environment
suffers.
2. With community involvement, Agree
environmental problems can be easily
solved.
3. It is possible to remember events Disagree
 that occurred in early childhood.
4. Memories of terrible events can be Agree
totally repressed.
5. Parents have the obligation to Disagree
shield their children from
unpleasant memories, even if it is
necessary to lie.
6. “The truth will set you free.” It Agree
is always better to reveal the truth
and not lie.
7. If violent children receive love Agree
and patience at home, little
discipline is needed.
8. It is better to attend a school in Agree
an upper class neighborhood than one
in a poor or working class
neighborhood.
9. Violent children need discipline Disagree
and professional help.
10. Students with a physical handicap Agree
should not be allowed to play on
school teams.