The Secret Garden Ch. 8 & 9

The Secret Garden

Ch. 8 & 9

By Chas Phelan

Open Ended

Riddle Time!

Spelled forwards I’m what you do every day, spelled backward I’m something you hate. What am I?

Poll

“His red waistcoat was like satin and he puffed his tiny breast out and was so fine and so grand and so pretty that it was really as if he were showing her how important and like a human person a robin could be”.

What two types of figurative language are used above?

• metaphor

• simile

• personification

• onomatopoeia

Mrs. Sowerby

What can we infer about Mrs. Sowerby?

Why did she buy a gift for Mary? ​

What special gift did Mary get from Martha’s mother?

How is Mary changing on the outside?

What is causing this change? ​

​External Changes

(physical)​

​How does Mary feel towards other people now?

What is Mary learning? ​

Internal Changes

(Actions, thoughts, attitude)​

​Mary's Changes

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How does Mary find the secret garden?

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Why does Mary call this scene Magic?​

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The Secret Garden

​"Mary Lennox had heard a great deal about Magic in her Ayah’s stories, and she always said that what happened almost at that moment was Magic.

One of the nice little gusts of wind rushed down the walk, and it was a stronger one than the rest. It was strong enough to wave the branches of the trees, and it was more than strong enough to sway the trailing sprays of untrimmed ivy hanging from the wall. Mary had stepped close to the robin, and suddenly the gust of wind swung aside some loose ivy trails, and more suddenly still she jumped toward it and caught it in her hand. This she did because she had seen something under it—a round knob which had been covered by the leaves hanging over it. It was the knob of a door."

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Open Ended

Describe the current state of the secret garden.

What does the garden look like when Mary first discovers it?

​“I wish the spring was here now,” said Mary. “I want to see all the things that grow in England.”

She had finished her dinner and gone to her favorite seat on the hearth-rug.

“I wish—I wish I had a little spade,” she said.

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Why does Mary want a spade? ​

​“How shall I get the things when Dickon buys them?”

“He’ll bring ‘em to you himself. He’ll like to walk over this way.”

“Oh!” exclaimed Mary, “then I shall see him! I never thought I should see Dickon.”

“Does tha’ want to see him?” asked Martha suddenly, for Mary had looked so pleased.

“Yes, I do. I never saw a boy foxes and crows loved. I want to see him very much.”

Open Ended

Why do you suppose Martha left so abruptly at the end of chapter 9?