Reading Assignment: Since we are having an extra class on the 4th and we didn't get through the entire assignment today, you can either read twenty more pages in the book or finish it. I am guessing you will finish it because you will want to know what happens to Charlie.
Writing Assignment: For the writing assigment, please write a paragraph that describes how the author Betsy Byars uses the character of Charlie to show readers that Sara is a good person at heart ("At heart" is an idiom meaning that something is true in reality although it might not appear to be true from the outside). So your writing would begin something like this: " In many ways, Sara, the heroine of Betsy Byars' The Summer of the Swans is outwardly ___________________ ( You fill in the blanks with the adjectives of your choice and don't forget to include the article a or an) teenager. But through her relationship to Charlie, Byars makes it clear that ________________________. This is where you would describe how Sara's true character is revealed through how she acts with her brother.