(Print) Use this randomly generated list as your call list when playing the game. There is no need to say the BINGO column name. Place some kind of mark (like an X, a checkmark, a dot, tally mark, etc) on each cell as you announce it, to keep track. You can also cut out each item, place them in a bag and pull words from the bag.
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What is The relationship between leaving home and growing up
What is The end-result of Annie's many identities
What other literary characters have you encountered who also felt it was necessary to cut ties with their family and/or homeland?
Annie John is in 1st person. Why? How does this narrative style enhance the critical ideas and themes in the novella?
How would the novella be different if it was narrated in the third person? If it was narrated by Annie's mother?
How does Annie's character development affect those around her, from her family to her peers to her larger community in Antigua?
You see someone being respectful of another person's opinion.
What was your biggest takeaway from the book?
What did you like about Annie John?
How did reading the poem "In the Waiting Room" and the excerpt from "A Small Place" support your understanding of certain critical ideas in the text?
How do you interpret Kincaid's phrase about departure "as a means of personal liberation"? To what extent does Annie embody this idea?
To what extent is Annie's coming of age universal? To what extent is it a product of her personality, family, and environment?
What is something you would change about the novella?
What chapter impacted you the most?
Explain how Annie John is a Bildungsroman book.
Can you talk about The universality and individuality of Annie's experience
Does Annie ultimately defy or carry on her mother's legacy? How so?
Annie tries on many identities throughout the novella. Does she eventually achieve her own selfhood?
To what extent is Annie an objective narrator? To what extent does her perspective distort the reader's experience?
What steps does Annie take to arrive at and assert her own selfhood?
Is leaving home an essential part of growing up?
What's Annie's emotional state overall in the novel?
What did you dislike about Annie John?
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What aspects of Annie's experience resonated with you? What aspects of her experience felt new or unfamiliar?
