On Golden Pond Chapter Abstracts for Teachers

Ernest Thompson
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 145 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

On Golden Pond Chapter Abstracts for Teachers

Ernest Thompson
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 145 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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Act 1, Scene 1,

• The play opens in a summer home on Golden Pond in Maine in mid-May.

• Norman Thayer is shown looking around the room and then picking up the phone.

• Norman is an older gentleman of seventy-nine with glasses and the charm of a young boy.

• Norman is in good health although he has occasional bouts with senility.
• Norman asks the operator to call him back but has forgotten the phone number.

• Ethel knocks on the door and Norman finally realizes he has to answer the door.

• Ethel is a casually dressed woman of sixty-nine and has been in the woods.

• Ethel accepts a dinner invitation for that evening from some neighbors.
• Ethel encounters Charlie in the woods, who is the local postal carrier and was also a boyfriend of Chelsea's when Charlie was younger.

• Norman and Ethel discuss the local gossip and observations on the condition of...

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