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Copywork
About This Passage
This sentence opens with an introductory phrase set off by a comma, so the student practices comma-after-opening-phrase punctuation. It also paints a vivid, uneasy picture: the rattlesnakes and scorpions hide in the very holes the campers were made to dig. Copying it plants the book's central image of digging while modeling clean, concrete descriptive writing.
Out on the lake, rattlesnakes and scorpions find shade under rocks and in the holes dug by the campers.
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Discussion Questions
Narration Prompt
Tell someone what Camp Green Lake is like, going in order: what the land looks like now, who owns the only shade, and which animal is the most dangerous of all.
Discussion Questions
- The author calls this place Camp Green Lake, but the chapter says there is no lake, only a dry, flat wasteland. Why do you think the author chose a name that does not match the real place? Use the words in the chapter to show how different the place is from its name.
- On the hottest days there is barely any shade, and the chapter says the Warden owns the shade and keeps the campers out of the hammock. Do you think the Warden is being unkind, or just keeping what is the Warden's? Use the details in the chapter to explain what you think.
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Vocabulary
Item 1
A cool, dark spot where the sun does not reach.
Item 2
Stays close to one spot without moving much.
Item 3
Dried up and shrank into wrinkles.
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