Sequencing
What happens each time Toad goes to his home to try to get it back from the weasels, ferrets, and stoats?
The first time, Toad is started when a ferret tries to shoot him. The second time, Toad Toad uses Rat's boat and warily tires to get to his house by river, but the stoats drop a stone on the boat. It sinks, and an indignant Toad swims to shore.
What happens to Toad Hall while Toad is gone? Who moves in?
Weasels, ferrets, and stoats
What did you predict at the start of the story and was your prediction correct?
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From whose perspective is "The Return of Toad, Part I" told by?
Toad
What has Toad gone through since he's last seen his friends, and how he feels after he tells Rat about his adventures. Does he want to go on any more?
No. He Toad was handcuffed, imprisoned, starved, chased, terrified for his life, insulted, jeered at, and flung into the water by a woman-and all because he stole a motorcar. Toad says he's had enough adventures. He regrets being conceited.
How would the Read-Aloud be different if it were told from the perspective of the weasels, stoats, and ferrets?
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Do you think there is a chance that Toad will actually change his ways?
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What are some examples of friendship/loyalty, hospitality, responsibility, and irresponsibility in the read-aloud.
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In the Read-Aloud today, you heard that Mole and Badger surveyed, or looked over, the outside of Toad's home. What do they discover?
Toad's home is surrounded by sentries, or guards with guns.
Why do the weasels, ferrets, and stoats move in?
They didn't think Toad was ever coming back, and they didn't support Toad's irresponsibility.
What does it mean for Toad that is house is surrounded with sentries, or guards with guns.
It will be hard to get back into Toad's home.