◼︎ Chapter 1 / Chapter I

What are chains and what are chains used for?
Who wrote Chains?
What is the date of Chapter 1?
When you read the first paragraph, what ran through your mind?
A year earlier, what did the narrator’s mother die of?
The narrator says, “We just dug a hole and said a passel of prayers.”
- Do not look up “passel.”
- Take a guess at what “passel” means based on context.
What are chickadees and barn swallows?
- Hint: Look at photographs below.
Who is being buried now?
Mr. Robert says to the narrator, “Go pray for her that owned you, girl.”
- What do you make of that?
- What might this tell us about the narrator?
BONUS: Write a question for this chapter.
- Answer your own question.