JE #26
Describe your favorite breakfast food/meal.
How does it feel, taste, smell, look? Use sensory details.
Class Activities:
Summary of Chapter 1
Read along with Chapter 2
Look for new characters: RC Rydell (2 years older than Hiram), Ralph and Ronnie (wears army uniform but grandpa thinks he was not in the army), Naomi
(RC's sister),
Sensory intro: smells, coffee, breakfast smells,
Description of house and what activities occurred in which location
RC and Naomi's family poor. Mom died.
This chapter is recounting a time when Hiram was 7. The story of Emmett Till takes place when Hiram is 16. Why is he telling this piece? Background? What will Grandpa be like then? What made Grandpa angry? USA fighting other countries' wars and North is trying to dictate how EVERYONE lives.
What's up with the Remington brothers? They are different. Act different? Mr. Remington calls them fairies, queer. Dance w/each other in their underwear. One uses front door. The other uses the back door.
Location: river, fishing is popular activity, no one is worried about kids being out and on their own
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