WB pp.143-144
Reread pp.355-357 and answer the questions.
p. 355
What type of shelter did Thomas build when the family arrived in Indiana?
How do you think Abraham and his sister, Sarah, felt at night?
What does the metaphor “a tall spider of a boy” tell you about young Lincoln?
Because Abraham was old enough to handle an ax, what did he help his father do?
What is one character trait that Lincoln developed early in his life?
How do we know that this move to Indiana might have been a good move for the family?
Who followed the Lincolns to Indiana?
How was the arrival of Dennis Hanks a good thing for Thomas and Abraham?
p.356
What happened to Nancy’s aunt and uncle?
What word tells us that many people died of milk sickness?
Who else in Abraham Lincoln’s family died of milk sickness?
How do you know what Nancy Lincoln said to her children just before she died?
How did Abraham help his father with his mother’s coffin?
What responsibilities did eleven-year-old Sarah have after her mother died?
What descriptive words tell you that life in the Lincoln cabin had changed for the worse after Nancy’s death?
p. 357
What does it mean that Thomas’s new wife, Sarah Bush, was a widow?
Why do you think Thomas Lincoln returned to Kentucky to find a new wife?
What kind of stepmother was Sarah Bush?
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