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. 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. One hundred and ten years before Stanley arrives at Camp Green Lake, the town of Green Lake is a beautiful place where peach trees bloom throughout the spring. Stanley and Zero find a suitcase that has the name Stanley Yelnats on it.
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Louis Sachar — Holes—The Book Stanley Yelnats was given a choice. 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.
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Holes Discussion Questions After reading Holes, use these questions to start a discussion with your students about the book. 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? Some questions are adapted from Scholastic BookFiles: A Reading Guide to Holes.
Holes --Novel Study Guides for the Classroom A complete list of the novels available How to order-- It's Easy! 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. Chapters Three & Four Why did Stanley have a box of stationery? Chapters Five & Six Why was Mr. Pretend you are the judge in Stanley's case. Chapter Seven & Eight How do we know that Stanley is not accustomed to hard physical work? The author begins to use a new structure in this chapter. Chapter Nine & Ten Explain why the sign on the rec room said wreck room.Why in X-Ray's opinion was the second hole the hardest to dig? Chapter Eleven & Twelve What did X-Ray ask Stanley to do the next time he found something interesting? Chapter Thirteen & Fourteen Chapter Fifteen & Sixteen
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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. 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. protagonist · Stanley Yelnats climax · When Stanley steals Mr. falling action · Stanley and Zero's escape from camp radically alters their plans.
Reading Comprehension - Literature - Louis Sachar's Holes Comprehension Companion Home > Reading Comprehension > Louis Sachar 's Holes Comprehension Companion Enjoying literature is one of the joys of reading. The goal of the "Holes Comprehension Companion" is to help teach reading comprehension in an enjoyable context, and to directly teach the skills instead of providing "practice" for a skill a student may not yet have. These exercises also require students to think about what they've read; unfortunately, all a student must do when asked to write a summary of a novel is to ask a search engine and copy. Holes by Louis Sachar is a Newbery-winning novel that has a straightforward plot (with flashbacks), clearly defined characters, and an intertwining of past and present personalities with neo-Shakespearean twists, as many seemingly insignificant details tie together. Holes lends itself to explicitly teaching comprehension skills such as understanding themes, inferences, and character and quote analysis. Here are some comprehension activities related to Holes. Draw it!