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This passage opens the layer of Zero’s life that no one at Camp Green Lake ever asked about. Copying it slowly lets a student feel the weight of a child who had to find a stranger to play his mother just to get a bed on a bad night.
I didn’t go to the homeless shelter very often,” Zero said. “Just if the weather was really bad. I’d have to find someone to pretend to be my mom.
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Narration Prompt
In two or three sentences, retell the long conversation Stanley and Zero have on the hill about Zero's mother, the shelter, the Cub Scouts, and the stolen shoes.
Discussion Questions
- Zero says, 'We always took what we needed,' and then adds, 'never more.' What does Zero's rule about taking only what you need suggest about his moral code? Use the text to support your answer.
- Why do you think Louis Sachar has Stanley physically peel an onion layer by layer throughout the chapter while Zero reveals layer after layer of his past?
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Vocabulary Builder
Item 1
Having no permanent place to live.
Item 2
Cloudy, dark, and hard to see through, especially water.
Item 3
A building that gives food and a place to sleep to people who have no home.
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