Synopsis: In this section, we learn a variety of things that happen to Ben while he is in New York City. He is new to a big city, so he makes some mistakes that we learn about and is a bit overwhelmed being in such a big place. The little girl goes behind stage and sees Lillian Mayhew and we learn a very important piece of information about the connection between the girl and Lillian Mayhew.

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Text Teaser Video

The video gives a brief synopsis of a portion of the text without giving away too much detail to encourage students to continue reading the story.
Length of Video: 40 seconds

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Picture Teaser Video

This video gives a brief synopsis of a portion of the picture part of the book without giving away too much detail to encourage students to continue reading the story.
Length of Video: 37 seconds

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Discussion Question 7 Video (Text)

In this video, the differences in city life vs. country life are discussed and the question is posed “would you prefer to live in a big city, or in the country?”
Length of Video: 51 seconds

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Discussion Question 7 Video (Pictures)

In this video, the idea of Lillian Mayhew being the little girl’s mother and how she must feel when her mother locks her in the room.
Length of Video: 26 seconds
 

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264-307 Questions

This is a worksheet that asks questions related to the section that students have read.

Time to Complete: 20 minutes

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Annotation Notes – Pt 2 pgs 264-307

This is a worksheet that assists students in taking notes while they read this section of the book. The instructions for using this worksheet are in a PowerPoint in the introduction section; download PowerPoint.

Time to complete: Done while reading – time determined individually