In class today, you are working on the following questions based upon Walter Dean Myers The Young Landlords chapters 2-6. Any work you do not finish in class is homework.See questions below, if you are absent.
Study Questions for The Young Landlords by Walter Dean Myers
Chapter 2:
1. What is Omar’s theory concerning Chris and the stolen stereo equipment?
2. What the narrator Paul’s father do for work?
3. What were some of the messages the Action Group decided to put on the signs they were going to use to picket Mr. Harley?
Chapter 3:
1. Under what conditions can the Action Group raise the rent on the building?
2. What is Petey Darden’s position within the building?
3. Describe the Robinson women and their reaction to their new landlords.
4. Describe in detail Askia Ben Kenobi’s reaction when Dean laughed at him.
5. What happened after the above?
Chapter 4
1. What exactly was wrong with Miss Robinson’s toilet?
2. What does Paul’s father’s boss do for Chris?
Chapter 5.
1. Who is Mr. Pender?
2. What is Financial Banana?
3. Explain what Mr. Pender means when he tells Paul, “every man has his own way of carrying his burdens.”
4. According to Mr. Pender, what are the two major problems the Action Group must deal with now?
Chapter 6.
Give an itemized account of the costs of running the apartment building.
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