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"Wanda" and "The Dresses Game"

• The following version of this book was used to create this Lesson Plan: Estes, Eleanor. The Hundred Dresses. Harcourt Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, 1944. Print.

• Note: The third person narrator who presents the story often uses devices such as a satirical tone and deliberate understatement throughout the narrative, so students need to perform a close reading of the text to ensure they receive a true understanding of the story’s humanist messages.

• The chapter entitled “Wanda” begins on a Monday.

• A student named Wanda is not in her seat, but very few people in Room 13 notice her absence.

• The narrator explains that the other children only pay attention to Wanda outside of school, such as when they are walking back from their homes at lunchtime or are walking to school.

• At these times, the rest of the students in Room 13 are described as liking...

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