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Holes: Facts. Title · Holes author · Louis Sachar type of work · Novel genre · Mystery; folk tale; adventure novel language · English time and place written · 1998, Texas date of first publication · 1998 publisher · Farrar, Straus and Giroux narrator · Omniscient point of view · The omniscient narrator moves constantly through three different time periods.

Holes: Facts

Tone · The narrator of Holes seems reliable but often interjects dark humor or irony into the narration. Tense · The tense often shifts from the present to flashbacks in Stanley's own life, in the life of Kate Barlow, or to the life of Stanley's great-great-grandfather. setting (time) · Most of the story takes place at the end of the 20th century but there are fashbacks to the late 19th century and to the mid 19th century. setting (place) · Most of the story takes place on Green Lake, in Texas.

Holes EdGuide. Newbery author of "Holes," Louis Sachar talks about "Holes" with interviewer Tim Podell. Etthalomdagen - Planering och arbetsuppgifter. Fredag 12 oktober Vi har en uppföljning från måndagens lektion då vi jobbade med ordkunskap och ser till att alla har fått rätt betydelse på orden.

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Copyright 2002 Created by Brian Thornton Louis Sachar Answer all questions in sentence form. Part One--You Are Entering Camp Green Lake Chapters One & Two Explain the irony in the name Camp Green Lake.Why will campers sometimes permit themselves to be bitten by a rattlesnake or a scorpion? Write a short biography on the author and examine some of his other novels. Holes Discussion Questions. After reading Holes, use these questions to start a discussion with your students about the book.

Holes Discussion Questions

You can also use any of these questions as a writing prompt. In what ways is the saying "You can't judge a book by its cover" a good one for this story? Resting, Reading and Writing. Bläddrade bland gamla foton och hittade ett som direkt förde tanken till ett av mina favoritprojekt!

Resting, Reading and Writing

Och så här lagom till sommarledigheten kan det ju fungera som ett lästips också :-). Till sommaren är det ju skojsigt att ligga i en solstol eller i skuggan av ett lummigt träd och läsa … Medan vi skrev Focusböckerna spenderade jag många somrar letandes efter böcker vi kunde använda textutdrag ur. För oss författare var det viktigt att ha med autentiska textutdrag i FoE. Jag ville också dela med mig av roliga upplägg som jag använt i klassrummet.

Quizzes - Holes

Louis Sachar — Holes—The Book. Stanley Yelnats was given a choice.

Louis Sachar — Holes—The Book

The judge said, "You may go to jail, or you may go to Camp Green Lake. " Stanley was from a poor family. He had never been to camp before. And so, Stanley Yelnats seems set to serve an easy sentence, which is only fair because he is as innocent as you or me. But Stanley is not going where he thinks he is. The trouble started when Stanley was accused of stealing a pair of shoes donated by basketball great Clyde "Sweetfeet" Livingston to a celebrity auction. At Camp Green Lake, the warden makes the boys "build character" by spending all day, every day, digging holes: five feet wide and five feet deep. Fate conspires to resolve it all—the family curse, the mystery of the holes, the drought that destroyed Green Lake, and also, the legend of Kissing Kate Barlow, an infamous outlaw of the Wild West. Want to spend some more quaity time at Camp Greenlake?

Should you ever find yourself at Camp Green Lake—or somewhere similar—this is the guide for you. Holes: Plot Overview. Stanley Yelnats, a boy who has bad luck due to a curse placed on his great- great-grandfather, is sent to Camp Green Lake, a juvenile detention camp, for a crime he did not commit.

Holes: Plot Overview

Stanley and the other boys at the camp are forced to dig large holes in the dirt every day. Stanley eventually realizes that they are digging these holes because the Warden is searching for something. As Stanley continues to dig holes and meet the other boys at the camp, the narrator intertwines three separate stories to reveal why Stanley's family has a curse and what the Warden is looking for.

When he was a boy, Stanley's great-great-grandfather, Elya Yelnats, received a pig from Madame Zeroni, a gypsy, in exchange for a promise. Elya's promise was that after the pig grew strong he would carry Madame Zeroni, who only had one leg, up a mountain and sing her a song that she had taught him. Holes. Holes_Chapter 1-3. Holes discussion questions.