The Bad Beginning Chapters 1-3

Describe the Baudelaire orphans.

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CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.W.4.2B

CCSS.W.4.9B

What dreadful news did Mr. Poe come to tell the children on the beach?

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CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.4.2

CCSS.RL.4.3

How did the author use the setting to match the mood of the first chapter?

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CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.4.3

What did the Baudelaire's see when Mr. Poe took them to their house? Explain using details from the text.

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CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.W.4.3D

CCSS.W.4.9B

Describe what the Baudelaire parents left in their will. What does this mean for the Baudelaire children?

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CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.W.4.9A

How do the kids feel when they arrive and meet Justice Strauss? How does that feeling change when they meet Count Olaf?

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CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.W.4.9B

How were the three Baudelaire children settling into their new home? Explain using details from the text.

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CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.4.3

Explain what Count Olaf asked the children to do in this chapter. How do they go about making this happen?

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CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.4.3

If you had to make a guess, based only on what you've read so far, what is the THEME of this story?

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CCSS.RL.4.2