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Copywork
About This Passage
This passage will teach young writers how Edward Marshall lets simple friends-talking scenes carry a whole story. Notice how the friends sound like real kids even though they are animals — they tease, they get excited, they change their minds. Good writers make animal characters sound like people we know.
Open Chapter 1 of FOX AND HIS FRIENDS. Find a moment where Fox is with his friends Dexter and Carmen. Choose 1-2 sentences that show the way they talk to each other.
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Discussion Questions
Narration Prompt
Tell the story of this chapter. Stop at the moment Fox has to make a choice between his friends and something else. What does he decide?
Discussion Questions
- Fox wants to play with his friends, but sometimes his friends want different things than he does. Is it OKAY for friends to want different things? What in the story makes you think so?
- Fox is the main character. What kind of fox is he — brave, silly, kind, sneaky? What in the story makes you think so?
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