Students should read from Chapter 1 through Chapter 7.
Common Core Objectives
Note that it is perfectly fine to expand any day’s work into two days depending on the characteristics of the class, particularly if the class will engage in all of the suggested classroom exercises and activities and discuss all of the thought questions.
Content Summary for Teachers
Chapter 1
In the first chapter, we meet the story’s young narrator, India Opal Buloni (generally called ‘Opal’). Opal is at the grocery store to pick up some food when she encounters a scruffy-looking stray dog causing havoc in the produce section. The dog is...
