A Gathering of Days | Teaching Setting, Symbolism and Objects

Object Descriptions

This section provides a short description of all the major objects in the book. This can be printed out as a study guide for students, used as a "key" for leading a class discussion, or you can jump to the quiz/homework section to find worksheets that incorporate these descriptions into a variety of question formats.

Objects

Buttery - Someone steals the pies from this storeroom at the Shipman homestead.

Writing Tablet - Catherine misplaces this on the way home and finds it two days later under the stone that they begin to call the phantom's stone.

Quilt - Made from various articles of clothing in Catherine's family, Catherine wraps up some food in it and leaves it at the phantom's stone.

Sausages and Apples - These are the food items that Catherine and Cassie wrapped inside the quilt to give to the phantom.

Phantom's Stone - Near Piper's Woods,...
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