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Peggy Parish lets the joke land in three short steps: scissors, snipping, the wrong kind of 'change.' The chapter's whole humor comes from words meaning two things at once.
Amelia Bedelia got some scissors. She snipped a little here and a little there, and she changed those towels.
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Narration Prompt
Tell what Amelia Bedelia did with the list and what went wrong.
Discussion Questions
- Mrs. Rogers wrote 'change the towels' meaning swap them for clean ones. Amelia Bedelia cut them up. Whose fault is the misunderstanding?
- Amelia Bedelia takes every word LITERALLY. Is being too literal a problem, or is it sometimes funny in a good way?
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