Sarah, Plain and Tall
Chapter 3 Activities

  1. Patricia MacLachlan describes both the Kansas prairie and the Maine coast. Below you will find some of her comparisons. Can you write some more of your own?
Prairie Sea
green grass fields that bloomed with Indian paintbrush, red and orange, and blue-eyed grass   p. 16 gulls fly high and drop the shells on the rocks below   p. 20
gophers ran back and forth across the road  p. 17 the sea washes over and over and around the stone, rolling it until it is round and perfect   p. 20
off in the field a wood chuck ate and listened  p. 17
far off the cows moved slowly to the pond, like turtles  p. 18