Chapter+02+Summary

Tom decided to play hookey from school to go to the swimming hole. But when he comes home, Aunt Polly caught him because he ripped his shirt playing and sewed it with the wrong colored thread! His punishment, to whitewash the front fence. It was Saturday and all that was on Tom's mind was having fun. Whitewashing is the exact opposite of that. So being the clever boy he is, Tom convinces boys walking by to paint the fence. He made it sound like painting the fence was the funnest thing you could do on a Saturday. Each boy needed to give Tom toys from yo-yos to cup cakes.

Prompt How would you have convinced someone to paint your fence? Compare your method to Tom's.

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