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The Potter's Neighbor — Shen Anshi has lived at the end of Willow Lane for thirty-two years in Song Dynasty China, and in that time he has spoken with his neighbor Widow Chen perhaps four hundred times — conversations that have settled into their own texture without either of them choosing it. She comes to his gate most mornings. The problems communicate, he has come to understand, by which he means something specific about how two adjacent lives wear on each other.
Each packet includes:
Original classical short story (complete text)
Notes on historical setting and literary tradition
Narration prompts (oral and written)
Comprehension questions — literal and inferential
Vocabulary exercises
Character Constellation graphic organizer (including Character Change Axis)
Story Arc study (five movements, with attention to subtler turning points)
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