Downright Dencey Chapter Abstracts for Teachers

Caroline Dale Snedeker
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 137 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

Downright Dencey Chapter Abstracts for Teachers

Caroline Dale Snedeker
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 137 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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Book I, Chapters 1-3

• Dencey Coffyn and her friend and cousin Hopestill enjoy a Spring day 1812 in their town on the island of Nantucket.

• Dencey and Hopestill encounter some boys from the Fragment Society School, and the boys taunt Dencey for being a tomboy.

• Dencey is especially angered when social outcast, Sammie Jetsam, taunts Dencey by calling her a "darkie" and "Portugee Girl," so Dencey throws a stone at Sammie who drops his basket of eggs.
• Dencey attempts to help Sammie who is hurt, but he refuses her help, kicking and scratching to make her go away.

• Dencey realizes that she is dirty and disheveled and cannot go to school in that condition, so she makes her way back home.

• Dencey sits in her room contemplating what she has done to Sammie, and when her mother, Lydia, comes home that afternoon, Dencey tells her about her wicked deed...

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