Dandelion Wine Chapter Abstracts for Teachers

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 101 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

Dandelion Wine Chapter Abstracts for Teachers

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 101 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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Pages 1 - 11

• The story opens with twelve-year-old Douglas Spaulding waking up in his grandparents' three-story boarding house on the first day of summer in 1928.

• They all live in Green Town, Illinois.

• Douglas believes this will be a special day because a spider web broke across his face when he passed through it.
• Douglas' father takes him and his brother into the forest to collect fox grapes and wild strawberries.

• The father believes that being in nature makes everything better and even taste better, but Douglas doesn't quite feel the same way yet.

• Eventually, Douglas feels a 'thing' pass over him and he begins to feel joy at being truly, fantastically alive like his brother (Tom) and his father both seem to feel.

Pages 12 - 25

• Douglas and his brother, Tom, both went to collect dandelions for their grandfather who pays the boys ten cents a bag to collect them...

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