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About This Passage
This calm passage shows Stanley doing small, patient things — peeling onions and looking at the water hole. The onion layers and the growing water hole are both good pictures for how Zero's story is being opened up in this chapter, one layer at a time.
Stanley slowly peeled an onion. He liked eating them one layer at a time. The water hole was now almost as large as the holes he had dug back at Camp Green Lake. It contained almost two feet of murky ...
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Discussion Questions
Narration Prompt
In your own words, retell the talk Stanley and Zero have on the hill about the shoes, Cub Scouts, and Zero's mother.
Discussion Questions
- What in the story tells you that Stanley is taking good care of Zero while Zero gets better?
- What in the story tells you that Zero wanted to belong to a group like the Cub Scouts?
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Vocabulary Builder
Item 1
A round white vegetable with many layers that can make your eyes water.
Item 2
One thin part of something that has many parts stacked together.
Item 3
Cloudy and hard to see through, like dirty water.
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