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Chapters 1-2

• The following version of this book was used to create this Lesson Plan: Peck, Richard. The Teacher’s Funeral. Scholastic Inc, 2004. Paperback.

• The first chapter of the book starts in the present and then circles back to the past.

• The chapter abstracts use the present tense and provide a linear summary.

• In Part 1, “Kissing Summer Good-Bye," Chapter 1, “August,” Russell, the first-person narrator describes the month of August and how there is a little less evening, which is a warning that school is about to start again.

• August mentions how their teacher, Miss Myrt Arbuckle died.

• She must have been 40.

• Russell’s ten-year-old brother, Lloyd, hopes that will be the end of school.

• Miss Arbuckle was past her prime.

• She was deaf in one ear and had arthritis in her “whupping” (4) arm so she did not whip very hard.

• When Lester Kriegbaum was called up last spring...

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