Students will have very little to read at home, but will often be asked to answer questions about the chapters read that day. If they happen to forget their book, they may look things up at http://ajaytao2010.files.wordpress.com/2012/12/the-good-earth-pearl-s-buck.pdf.
All questions must be answered in complete sentences with evidence quoted from the book. For example, one of today's questions was "What is the fire wagon?"
A quality answer might say:
"The fire wagon is mentioned in chapter 10 and it can be inferred that it is a train. The man says "e firewagon and ride to the south. It leaves from yonder house and there are wagons for such as we for the price of less than a small silver piece" From this we learn that one can purchase fare, which could be either a coach or train since cars were not yet invented. Wang Lung states that he had "heard men tell of these wagons, chained one to the other and drawn neither by man nor beast, but by a machine breathing forth fire and water like a dragon." The wagons chained together is the cars of the train, latched together in a long procession. The fire and water that the dragon breathes is the steam power that trains at the time were using for energy.
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