Far from the Madding Crowd Chapter Abstracts for Teachers

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 122 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

Far from the Madding Crowd Chapter Abstracts for Teachers

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 122 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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Chapters 1 - 6

• Far from the Madding Crowd is a late-nineteenth-century novel by English author Thomas Hardy.

• In Chapters 1 and 2, the third-person omniscient narrator introduces Gabriel Oak, a young farmer in South Wessex, and a beautiful young woman he encounters in the woods.

• In Chapters 3 and 4, Gabriel Oak comes to know Bathsheba Everdene more as she stays with her aunt, Mrs. Hurst.

• Struck by Bathsheba’s beauty, Gabriel calls upon her and asks for her hand in marriage. Bathsheba, however, refuses.

• In Chapters 5 and 6, Bathsheba has left town and gone to Weatherbury to live with an uncle.

• In the meantime, Gabriel Oak comes to ruin when a young sheepdog chases his flock over a cliff.

• Oak is impoverished and while looking for work, encounters a barn fire which he leads in fighting; the barn belongs to Bathsheba.

Chapters 7 - 12

• In Chapters 7 and 8, Bathsheba has hired Gabriel as a shepherd...

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