What time period is your book set in? Where is your book set? Provide quote(s) that support this (with page number(s)).
This book takes place in a hot Texas town called Fentress in 1899.
“By 1899, we had learned to tame the darkness but no the Texas heat.” (pg. 1)
Describe what life was like for the average person in your book’s world. Provide quote(s) that support this.
The men would go off to work every day, many working at the cotton gin or in the pecan fields. The women would stay home and watch the children, cook, and clean. The children would go off to school learning Literature, Arithmetic, Spelling, Deportment, and Spelling. …show more content…
Oh, and Deportment.” (pg. 29)
“and cursed the heat and their husbands, too, for dragging them off to Caldwell County to plant cotton and acres of pecan trees.” (pg. 2)
Locate examples/quotes from your book that reveal details about your character’s daily routine and complete the chart below:
Quote and page number of example What does this show about your character’s daily life?
“After dinner, I went to my room, put on my nightie, and read. I was munching my way, so to speak, through Granddaddy’s volumes of Dickens with great satisfaction” (pg. 218) This shows her nighttime routine and what she enjoyed to read, such as Dickens and Darwin texts.
“My days consisted of a cycle of schoolwork, piano practice, and cooking lessons with Viola.” (pg. 235) This shows what takes up most of her free time, although she is forced into piano and cooking by her mother and would rather be experimenting in the laboratory or observing plants and animals