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Date: 6/11/2023 Week: 10

Phase number: 1
Subject: Literature
Grade: 6 Teacher’s Name: Jubran
Type of assessment: Summary sheet Ch1-4

Misty Of Chincoteague

Introduction and Author’s Biography

Misty of Chincoteague is a Novel written by an Author Marguerite

Henry . In 1947
This book won the Newbery honor in 1948 and became a
Children's Classic, second only to Black Beauty.
In 1961 film Misty was based on the book.
Mrs. Henry later wrote a series of sequels to original book.

About the Author: Marguerite Henry

• 1902: born in U.S. state of Wisconsin

• Sick in bed with rheumatic fever from age 6 to age 12
• Loved reading western adventure stories
• Wanted horse ranch of her own
• Began writing at age 7
• 1945: Marguerite heard about ponies surviving Spanish shipwreck hundreds of years
ago swimming to Assateague Island
• Attended Pony Penning Day on the island
• Met the real horse “Misty”
• Misty went home to live with Marguerite for 10 years while she wrote Misty of
Chincoteague

Genre:
Historical Fiction

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 Events

Chapter 1
A Spanish ship sailing across the ocean from Peru hits a storm, wrecking the ship and
throwing sailors and ponies overboard. The sailors are all lost at sea, but the horses swim to
Assateague Island.

Characters
The horses, the sailors, the captain

Moral Lesson:
Don’t be selfish and greedy

Quotations
1. Gold.’ He mumbled. ‘Think of trading twenty ponies for their weight in gold!’ P.
12
The Captain in his mind he is so greedy and selfish. he was thinking only of gold
by selling horses.

Chapter 2
The horses enjoy their new home on Assateague Island. They devour the salty sea grass of
the summer, eat myrtle leaves in winter, and drink in the snow. Red men came to the island,
then the white men came. Later, the white men moved their houses to Chincoteague Island,
leaving Assateague to the horses

Characters
The horses

Moral lesson:
Natural Calling, new life, freedom, independence

Chapter 3
Maureen and Paul travel to Assateague Island with their grandpa for the day. Paul finds a
piece of an old Spanish ship and envisions the old ships and their horses. Paul and Maureen
spot a group of horses, soon spotting "The Phantom" who cannot be caught or tamed. "The
Phantom" races off towards freedom, but the "Pied Piper" overtakes her, forcing her to join
the other horses in the woods.

Characters
Paul, Maureen
The Phantom
Pied Piper

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 Quotations

1. ‘ I reckon we’d better keep our plans to ourselves,’ ‘Then if we don’t get her—‘
‘Then nobody can poke fingers at us and laugh,’. P.33
Conversation between Paul and Maureen. They were planning of earning money
by working to get their own pony.

Chapter 4
Grandpa Beebe comes back to Paul and Maureen. Grandma Beebe has sent him to catch
turkeys for tomorrow's dinner. Grandpa says the legend is true…that a Spanish ship was
wrecked, and all the horses of Assateague descended from those horses. Grandpa explained
Pony Penning Day when the people of Chincoteague round up the wild ponies of Assateague
for roping and rough riding. Then, the people of the island eat pot pie and sell some of the
ponies.

Characters
Grandpa, grandma,

Moral lesson:
Family bonds

Quotations

‘‘Paul!’ He boomed. ‘Put down that bone. Put it down, I tell ye!’ P. 37
Grandpa Clarence to Paul, He explained to Paul that the stick bone is sacred even
if it's only a ship bone.

Vocabularies

Galleon: A Spanish sailing ship from the 15th to the 18th

century. P11

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 Fiddler: A person who plays the violin especially one who
plays folk music. P 43

Abruptly: Suddenly. P28

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