BEFORE READING

Make a prediction of what will happen next.
Check over your CHARACTER CHART and be prepared to add more new characters from this chapter.
Review your RESPONSE JOURNAL entries for Chapter 8.

DURING READING

Notice how Pastor Al B. Hall steps in at the Election Board Administration.
Be prepared to see how Hope defends herself against some mean men.

AFTER READING

LIST new characters on the CHARACTER CHART. Describe Mavis Pettibone's voice. What does she give to Hope?
Discuss the word choices the author uses (p. 82) to describe the mean men?
What do they try to do to Hope?
What is Hope's reaction?
Who comes to her rescue?
What "word" does the Deputy say they call actions like this in the big city?
Who are these men?
In your RESPONSE JOURNAL LIST differences in style between G.T. Stoop and Eli Millstone.
Comment on the meaning of the quote (p. 84 top): "When hope gets released in a place, all kinds of things are possible."