Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan

Sarah Plain and Tall  

Chapter One and Two Exercises--Nancy Hill

Choose two words you don’t know; try to guess their meanings from their context. Then look them up and write their definitions.

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Chapter 1-- Pages 3-11

1. Why do you think Caleb keeps asking about his mother and father singing? Why did his father stop singing? (p.4)

2. What does Anna say Caleb looked like when he was born? (p. 5)

3. According to Anna, what was the worst thing about Caleb? (p. 5) How long did it take for her to love him? (p.6)

4. What were Anna’s mother's last words to her? (p. 5)

5. What did Anna forget to do? (p.5) Do you think this affected Anna emotionally?

6. What does it mean, “They tried to fill the house but couldn’t”? (p. 6)

7. What did Papa place an advertisement in the newspaper for? (p. 9)

8. Where is Sarah from? (p.10)

9. What is the one question Caleb wanted his father to ask Sarah? (p. 11)

Sarah Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan

Chapter Two:

Choose two words you learned from Chapter 1 and write each of them in a sentence.

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Choose two words from Chapter 2 you don’t know; try to guess their meanings from their context. Then look them up and write their definitions.

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1)      There are five things that Caleb worried about on pages 13 and 14—list them here.

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2)      What does “pesky” mean? (p.13)

3)      What did Caleb always do at night? (p. 15)

4)      How did Sarah describe herself on p. 17?

5)      What did Sarah write at the bottom of her letter? (p. 17)

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