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About This Passage
This passage lets young readers meet Miss Katherine Barlow the way the old town of Green Lake met her — as a teacher who knew how to save summer sweetness inside a jar. Copying the list of spices (cinnamon, cloves, nutmeg) teaches the comma, and copying the words 'kept secret' plants the first small mystery of the chapter.
Every summer Miss Katherine would pick bushels of peaches and preserve them in jars with cinnamon, cloves, nutmeg, and other spices which she kept secret. The jarred peaches would last all winter.
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Discussion Questions
Narration Prompt
Retell Chapter 23 in your own words, from the beautiful old Green Lake with peach trees to the moment Miss Katherine tells Trout Walker 'No, thank you' for the very first time.
Discussion Questions
- What in the story tells you that Green Lake used to be a happy place full of sweetness and pretty things, long before it became the dry empty place where the boys dig holes?
- What in the story tells you that Miss Katherine was a good teacher that the grown-ups and the children both loved?
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Vocabulary Builder
Item 1
Soft, sweet, fuzzy orange fruit that grows on trees in summer.
Item 2
Glass containers with lids that are used for keeping food safe for a long time.
Item 3
Small amounts of dried plants that are added to food to give it a special taste and smell.
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