Burger's Daughter | Overview & Chapter Abstracts for Teachers

Chapter Abstracts

Chapter abstracts are short descriptions of events that occur in each chapter. They highlight major plot events and detail the important relationships and characteristics of characters and objects. The Chapter Abstracts can be used to review what the students have read, or to prepare the students for what they will read. Hand the abstracts out in class as a study guide, or use them as a "key" for a class discussion. They are relatively brief, but can serve to be an excellent refresher of the text for either a student or teacher.

Pages 9-39 Abstract

* A fourteen year old school girl goes to the prison to bring her mother a quilt and a hot water bottle.
* Many others that the girl knows are at the prison waiting to bring supplies to their loved ones.
* Rosa Burger is the school girl who is a...
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