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Lob’s Girl

Lob’s Girl. By Joan Aiken. Objective. Understand and appreciate a short story, foreshadowing, and mood Recognize cause and effect, and the influence of setting. Connect to your life. Have you ever witnessed a pet helping an owner or someone in an extraordinary way? Describe what happened.

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Lob’s Girl

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  1. Lob’s Girl By Joan Aiken

  2. Objective • Understand and appreciate a short story, foreshadowing, and mood • Recognize cause and effect, and the influence of setting

  3. Connect to your life • Have you ever witnessed a pet helping an owner or someone in an extraordinary way? Describe what happened.

  4. Build Background • Setting: Beaches of Cornwall, England • Lob’s Girl takes place in Cornwall, England

  5. Cornwall is a peninsula bordered by the Atlantic Ocean and the English Channel. • The coast of Cornwall is made up of rocky cliffs. • Several characters come from Liverpool, which is on the western coast, about 400 mi north of Cornwall.

  6. Agitated Disturbed, upset

  7. Atone To make amends

  8. coma A sleeplike state in which a person cannot sense or respond to light, sound, or touch

  9. conceal to hide

  10. Draft Putting into words and writing it down.

  11. Inquire To question; ask

  12. melancholy Sad; gloomy

  13. Rivet to fasten firmly

  14. transfusion An injection of blood

  15. Lob

  16. Turn to page 449

  17. Complete Page 459 • Numbers 1-8 • If you finish early complete Literary Analysis • Read pages 462-464

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