Yuriko, de 12 ani, are o viață privilegiată. Ea locuiește în Hiroshima cu tatăl, mătușa și vărul ei, are cea mai bună prietenă care este ca o soră și îi place școala. Când Yuriko descoperă informații despre trecutul ei și la scurt timp după ce bomba atomică este aruncată asupra orașului ei, întreaga ei lume se pare că se sfârșește.
Puneți-i pe elevi să creeze un rezumat de început, de mijloc, sfârșit al The Last Cherry Blossom de Kathleen Burkinshaw.
Storyboard Text
BEGINNING
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That's not right. That's not right.
MIDDLE
Nishimoto is your father.
No! No! You're lying! That's not true!
END
Yuirko’s teacher reacts strangely to her family tree project and says, “that’s not right.” When her papa finds out, Yuriko’s teacher doesn’t return and Yuriko wonders why.
Yuriko discovers that Papa is actually her grandfather, and her Aunt Kimiko is actually her mother. Yuriko is hurt that this secret was kept from her, and wonders why no one told her the truth.
The atomic bomb is dropped on the city of Hiroshima, and Yuriko loses her family and best friend, in one way or another, as a direct result of the attack. She attends a boarding school, makes new friends, and meets up with her birth father.