Krik? Krak! Chapter Abstracts for Teachers

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 126 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

Krik? Krak! Chapter Abstracts for Teachers

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 126 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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Chapter 1

• A boy who has opposed the new regime in radio shows, and has fled from Haiti to America on a leaky boat with thirty-six other refugees, writes to his girlfriend.

• The girlfriend, still in Haiti, writes to tell her boyfriend about conditions in his absence, which are repressive and dangerous.

• As the boat gets further into the ocean, it becomes more and more leaky, and likely sinks.

• The girl describes horrific scenes in Port-au-Prince, where the macoutes beat and menace people, but she and the boy both end up declaring their undying love.

Chapter 2

• This chapter’s title comes from a massacre in 1937, when troops in the Dominican Republic slaughtered ethnic Haitians.

• At Massacre River, the character’s mother’s mother was killed, but her mother, pregnant with her at the time, escaped.

• In the present time of the story, the main character visits her mother in...

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