![]() ![]() The teacher offers to help by teaching him and allowing the boy to live with him. The teacher tends to his injuries, and the boy tells him of his family’s situation. Hurt and bleeding, the boy goes to a nearby schoolhouse to tend to his wounds. While looking for his father one day, a guard whacks the boy’s fingers with a piece of iron. Meanwhile, they learn that father has been convicted and forced into hard labor. The family takes care of the dog, and he becomes stronger each day. He can only use three of his legs, and half of his face has been mangled from being shot. Middle: Weeks later, Sounder returns, but he is in very poor shape. When the sheriff arrives to take him away, Sounder chases them, gets shot, and runs away. When hunting no longer brings in enough food, the sharecropper steals ham and is caught. This is a great alternate activity to a regular plot diagram! Sounder Summary Exampleīeginning: A Black sharecropper and his dog, Sounder, go hunting each night so that the family can be fed. ![]() ![]() They will summarize each part and create an illustration of a key scene from each. ![]() In this activity, students will create a storyboard that summarizes Sounder in three parts: the beginning, the middle, and the end. One fun way to boil down a story is to identify the beginning, middle, and end. ![]()
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