Come Morning Activity

    Students will select a scene from the book Come Morning, by Leslie Davis Guccione, to summarize using Microsoft Word, and KidPix. You MUST bring in your copy of Come Morning, and re-read the pages from the scene that you choose. When you write your scene summary, start with a proper header (Date, Name, Section, and Title on second line - centered), and be sure to include what the characters were thinking, and why. Your summary needs to be at least one paragraph long. Get approval from Mr. Brown to use KidPix to draw a picture of the scene, and use the TRUCK and MAGNET to COPY and PASTE your drawing into WORD. SAVE and PRINT your work for credit.

 
Chapter Pages Scene
1 7-8 Free - arms crossed, trying to stay awake on an uncomfortable mattress.
2 16 Free - guiding the mule and wagon for the first time - stopping to talk to Liza Prescott
3 24 Free - in the barn, startled by an orange cat, and spilling a fresh pale of Bossie's milk!
4 32-34 Free - confronted by two un-shaven white men in the willows.
5 42 Jed Carter - scarfing up bread. "...cabins and barns been known to burn..."
6 47 Nehemiah - kneeling in the dirt in front of Free
7 51 Free - picking up the notice of runaway slave Amos with "Nehemiah 2:15" scratched in charcoal.
7 55-57 Free - stopped dead in his tracks, looking up at the shattered front wheels of the buckboard wagon.
8 58 Free - discovering with his foot, a loose plank and a small room under the barn floor.
8 61 Liza and Free - talking in the springhouse about Liza's father and Nehemiah being taken to jail.
9-10 67-69 Free - driving he wagon with the false bottom past the patrollers.
10 75 Liza - shifting boards, sitting up in the wagon with the false bottom.
11 82 Free - lifting the barn floor boards as the family of five climb from the shelter below.
12 85 Free - slapping the reins over Ginger, heading into the moonlight, passing the vegetable garden.
12 89 Caleb - cracking his crop across Free's shoulders for a second time.
12 94-95 Free - running back into the burning cabin to gather warm clothes and family possessions.
13 97-98 Liza - smearing charcoal on her face.
13 98-99 Free and Liza - guiding the five runaways through the scrub.
13 102-103 Free - standing still in the moonlight as two barking hounds race toward him from the covered bridge.
14 108 The group - trudging uphill, single file, dark figures rounded, piggybacked with children.
15 111 The group - standing still, as Moses approaches.
15 113 The group - going through the gates and doors of the Mendenhall - except for Free.
15 117 Nehemiah - with bandaged head - raising his cane, greeting his son - Free!

A reading comprehension exercise, the above scenes are listed for Haverford School students to study and re-tell using their own pictures and words.


Updated: February 23, 2004
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