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This is the moment Jay Berry finds Jimbo and all the little monkeys hiding under the bank after the storm. Rawls slows the sentence way down — 'eased,' 'dropped,' 'looked' — so a young student can feel a boy moving very quietly on purpose, because he does not know yet whether the monkeys will bite him.
I eased over to the side of the washout, dropped to my hands and knees, and looked under the bank into the pocket.
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Discussion Questions
Narration Prompt
Tell the story of how Jay Berry found the monkeys. Start with Jay Berry and Rowdy calling in the wet, cold bottoms. Then tell what they heard, and what they found under the bank. Then tell what Jay Berry did to save the little monkey who was sick. Then tell how all twenty-nine monkeys followed him home to the corn crib.
Discussion Questions
- What in the story tells you that Jay Berry is the kind of boy who helps a hurt animal even when he is afraid it might bite him?
- What in the story tells you that the storm and the cold night changed the monkeys so much that they wanted Jay Berry to catch them?
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Vocabulary Builder
Item 1
Moved slowly and carefully, trying not to make a noise.
Item 2
The sloping ground along the side of a river, stream, or washout.
Item 3
A small hollow space, like a little cave that water has made under the ground.
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