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About This Passage
Anne's picture of how she would really like to pray — outdoors, alone, looking up into a sky that seems to have no end. Five vocabulary words live in the sentence (field, woods, deep, sky, blue), and the rising 'up—up—up' shows young writers how a sentence can climb the way a feeling climbs.
I’d go out into a great big field all alone or into the deep, deep woods, and I’d look up into the sky—up—up—up—into that lovely blue sky that looks as if there was no end to its blueness.
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Discussion Questions
Narration Prompt
Tell what happens at bedtime in this chapter — what Marilla teaches Anne about clothes and prayers, what Anne says about God and red hair, how Anne kneels down and prays, and what Marilla says to Matthew when she goes back to the kitchen.
Discussion Questions
- Anne tells Marilla, 'I never say any prayers.' What in the story shows you that Anne has never had a real chance to learn to pray the way Marilla expects?
- When Marilla tells her to kneel down, Anne asks why people must kneel and says she would rather go out into a great big field or the deep, deep woods to pray. How do you know that Anne already wants to talk to God, even though she does not know the words Marilla wants her to say?
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Vocabulary Builder
Item 1
To speak quietly to God.
Item 2
To go down on your knees.
Item 3
A wide open piece of land with grass.
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