Dandelion Wine Lesson Plan

In today's reading, the veneer of perfection around summer vacation begins to crack. What losses does Douglas have to contend with here?

In this set of chapters, Douglas continues to delight in his summer but begins to experience a few of the losses that will only snowball as the summer proceeds. These losses are seemingly innocuous but, again, will be joined by more devastating ones. The first is the hiding away of the Green Machine due to Miss Fern and Miss Roberta’s negligence, and the second is the replacing of the trolley with the bus.

The local children delight in watching Roberta and Fern make their way throughout town on the Green Machine. However, that...