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About This Passage
This is one of the funniest scenes in the whole book: a dog's bawl breaking the hush of a town library. Copying it teaches children to hear the BOUNCE of sound — the deep tones that roll, slam, and bounce — and to see the funny picture of books shaking on the shelves from a hound dog's voice. Rawls uses four strong verbs (rolled, slammed, bounced, quiver) to make the sound move through the room. A quiet place has been invaded by Rowdy, and for one wonderful moment the whole library is alive with the sound of a dog who loves his boy.
I had always known that my old hound had a beautiful voice, but I had never heard it ring like it did in that silent library. The deep tones rolled out over the floor, slammed against the walls, bounc...
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Discussion Questions
Narration Prompt
Tell the story of Chapter 11 in four sentences. Include Rowdy's 'dying act' to come along, driving across the river, arriving in Tahlequah, the Carnegie Library visit, and finding the book called Trapping Monkeys in the Jungles of Borneo.
Discussion Questions
- What in the story tells you that Rowdy is VERY GOOD at getting his own way?
- What in the story tells you that Grandpa TRUSTS Jay Berry, even though Jay Berry is scared?
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Vocabulary Builder
Item 1
moved smoothly forward over a surface, the way thunder or a ball travels
Item 2
the flat bottom part of a room that you stand and walk on
Item 3
hit something hard and suddenly, with a loud noise
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