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About This Passage
This sentence teaches a useful structure: the 'I guess' opener, which shows a narrator thinking out loud, and the contrast word 'but' that flips the meaning of the first half. Students learn how a single sentence can contain two opposite feelings at once — being embarrassed about something while also refusing to give it up. The sentence also introduces the phrase 'miss out on,' a common three-word phrase that kids use but rarely see written down.
I guess we were getting a little too old for trick-or-treating, but there was no way I was going to miss out on free candy.
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Discussion Questions
Narration Prompt
Tell someone what happened in this chapter in order. When you get to the most important part, slow down and tell it carefully — what happened, why it mattered, and what you think about it.
Discussion Questions
- Greg and Rowley run away from the older teenagers with the fire extinguisher instead of facing them. Was running away the BRAVE thing to do, or the SCARED thing to do? What in the story makes you think so?
- In Chapter 1 we learned that Greg is scared of Rodrick telling his secret. Now we see Greg is also scared of teenagers on Halloween. Is Greg a VERY scared boy, or is he a NORMAL boy who feels scared when scary things happen? What in the story makes you think so?
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