Walter Dean Myers Web Site

Vocabulary Beginning - July 6

1. Corridor

2. Obscene

3. Unshackle

4. Counsel

 5. Admissible

6. Mentor

7. Impede 

8. Conspirators

 9. Suicide

 10. Accomplice

Beginning - July 6

1. Why is it best to cry at night while someone is screaming?

2. Where is the narrator, at the beginning of the story?

3. What does the narrator feel he has walked into?

4. What does the narrator decide to write in the notebook he is given?

5. What does the narrator name his future film? Why?

6. Who is the narrator?

7. How does Steve envision the opening of his film?

8. Identify :

Sandra Petrocelli,

Kathy O’Brien

James King

Richard “Bobo” Evans

Osvaldo Cruz

Lorelle Henry

Jose Delgado

Steve Harmon

9. Who is on trial for murder?

10. Who is Mr. Sawicki?

11. According to Mr. Sawicki, what is wrong with the film’s ending?

12. According to Sandra Petrocelli, who are the monsters in the community?

13. Identify Alguinaldo Nesbitt.

14. According to Kathy O’Brien, what is the wonder and beauty of the American system of

justice?

15. Who discovers the body and the missing cigarettes?

16. Why does Sal Zinzi call Detective Gluck with a tip about the robbery?

17. What happens to Tony in the park with Steve?

Questions for thought

1. How does this book appear to be different from any other books you have read? State two specific differences. What do you think Walter Dean Myers was trying to accomplish by writing his novel in this way?

2. What does the guard mean when he says Steve’s case is a “motion case”? What does this say about truth and justice in the American Jury System?

3. What was Zinzi’s testimony? Why can’t the jury trust his testimony?

4. What is significant about the flashback Steve enters in the script about the rock throwing? What does this show about the present Steve?