In His Own Write | 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.

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* The first short story in the book is called "Partly Dave", which explains that Dave gets on a bus with a "coloured" (colored) conductor and Dave is a raving salesman that has the "gift of gob."
* The story is very short, and Dave jumps off the bus at the...
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