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This passage paints the long drive across the moor with sound and weather. Copying it slowly teaches children how careful word-picking — wind, rain, bleak, moor, black ocean — makes a place come alive on the page.
On and on they drove through the darkness, and though the rain stopped, the wind rushed by and whistled and made strange sounds. The road went up and down, and several times the carriage passed over a...
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Discussion Questions
Narration Prompt
Tell the story of Mary's long ride to Misselthwaite Manor. Start at the Thwaite Station, then the drive across Missel Moor in the dark, and end with Mary being led up many stairs to her little room.
Discussion Questions
- Mary asks Mrs. Medlock, 'What is a moor?' What in the story tells you this is the first real question Mary has ever wanted to ask someone?
- Mary says, 'I feel as if it might be the sea, if there were water on it.' How do you know this is a new way of thinking for Mary?
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Vocabulary Builder
Item 1
Water that falls from clouds in the sky.
Item 2
Air that moves strongly outside.
Item 3
A wide open land where only wild plants grow.
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