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Summary. Gilly Hopkins has worked hard in school to catch up with and then surpass her peers. However, she's unhappy that Miss Harris continues to treat her just like she does every other student in the class. In the past Gilly would draw attention to herself by first excelling in school and then suddenly refusing to achieve.
The Great Gilly Hopkins By Katherine Paterson Suggestions and Expectations This curriculum unit can be used in a variety of ways. Each chapter of the novel study focuses on one or two chapters of The Great Gilly Hopkins and is comprised of the following different activities: 1. Before You Read 2. Vocabulary Building 3. Comprehension Questions 4.
The Great Gilly Hopkins Chapter 1-3 Vocabulary. viciously. Click the card to flip 👆. in a cruel, savage manner. Click the card to flip 👆.
Summary. Chapter 13. Mrs. Hopkins, Gilly’s grandmother, brings her back to Jackson, Virginia. Gilly realizes her grandmother doesn’t truly want her, that she is only taking Gilly in as a matter of responsibility and obligation. Gilly realizes she loves Mrs. Trotter and William. Gilly is given her choice of bedrooms.
Chapter 7 Summary: “Dust and Desperation”. Gilly has an opportunity to search Mr. Randolph’s bookshelf for more money. She asks Agnes Stokes and William Ernest to help her. While Agnes Stokes watches outside for Maime Trotter and William Ernest to get home, William Ernest climbs up on Gilly’s shoulders to search behind the encyclopedia ...
This chapter continues to develop the important theme of home and family. Gilly Hopkins has dreamed of having a true home which she thought must mean living with Courtney. She realizes that Trotter did try to give her a home and permanence. The one thing out of Trotter's power to give her was the ability to stop being a foster child.
Written byZLIBS Editors The joys and struggles of adoption are beautifully told in Katherine Paterson's The Great Gilly Hopkins. Eleven-year-old Gilly has been placed in countless foster families, and she's hated each one. Her reputation precedes her: brash, very smart yet totally out of control, and she likes it that way. Now she is sent to live with the Trotters, the oddest family yet. She ...
