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Midwife’s Apprenticeby
Karen Cushman
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Table of Contents• 1 – Guest Speaker Notes• 2 – Chapter worksheet• 3 – Chapter worksheet• 4 – Chapter 1, The Dung Heap, Questions• 5 – Chapter 2, The Cat, Questions• 6 – Chapter 3, The Midwife, Questions• 7 – Chapter 4, The Miller’s Wife• 8 – Attribute Web #2 (blue paper)• 9 – Character Traits and Textual Evidence (yellow
paper)• 10– Chapter 5, The Merchant• 11– Chapter 6, The Naming• 12 – Review Summary• 13 – Chapter 7, The Devil
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• 14 – Chapter 8 – The Twins• 15 – Chapter 9 – The Bailiff’s Wife’s Baby• 16 – Chapter activity• 17 – Chapter activity• 18 – Chapter 10 – The Boy• 19 – Chapter 11 –The Leaving• 20 – Chapter 12 – The Inn• 21 – Chapter 13 – Visitors• 22 – Chapter 14 &15 – The Manor &
Edward• 23 – Chapter 16 – The Baby• 24 – Chapter 17 – The Midwife’s Apprentice• 25 – Author’s Notes
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• 13 – Chapter 8 – The Twins• 14 – Chapter 9 – The Bailiff’s Wife’s Baby• 15 – Review Summary• 16 – Chapter 10 – The Boy• 17 – Chapter activity• 18 – Chapter activity • 19 – Chapter 11 –The Leaving• 20 – Chapter 12 – The Inn• 21 – Chapter 13 – Visitors• 22 – Chapter 14 &15 – The Manor &
Edward• 23 – Chapter 16 – The Baby• 24 – Chapter 17 – The Midwife’s Apprentice• 25 – Author’s Notes
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The Dung Heap
• 1 – Why is the chapter titled “The Dung Heap?” What is the importance to the story?
• 2 – Describe the main character. How does she look? What are her names?
How did she get the three different names?
• 3 - What happens to Brat at the end of the chapter?
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The Cat
• 1 – Why didn’t Beetle feed the frozen nest of mice to the cat?
• 2 – How did the town boys treat the cat?
• 3 – Compare how the cat and Beetle are similar.
• 4 – What is important or significant about the cat and Beetle’s relationship?
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The Midwife
• 1 – Tell what chores Beetle does for Jane Sharp.
• 2 – Why did the villagers get angry with Jane? On whom did they take it out?
• 3 – How did Beetle deliberately begin to pick up some midwifery skills?
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The Miller’s Wife• What food items became plentiful in the
midwife’s cottage that summer? Where did they come from and why?
• How did Beetle solve the mystery of the excess food?
• Describe Beetle’s first experience as a midwife. Who was it for? How did it go?
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The Merchant• Why couldn’t Jane Sharp attend the Saint
Swithin’s Day Fair as planned?
• How did Beetle react to being told she must go in Jane’s place to the fair?
• What did Beetle have to buy? What else did she acquire? How / why?
• A number of positive events happened to Beetle at the fair. What were they?
• Why does Beetle choose to rename herself Alyce?
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The Naming
• How does everyone react to Beetle’s new name? Explain the situations.
• What does Beetle name the cat and why?
• What predicament does Alyce help Will Russet out of at the end of chapter 6?
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The Devil• How was Alyce treated in the village after she
saved Will? Examples
• How did Alyce become aware of how the villagers spent their time?
• What phenomenon appeared within the village that fall?
• What activities were revealed by the presence of the strange footprints?
• What did Alyce throw into the river after the baker’s wife discovered her husband’s folly?
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The Twins• Why was Will calling out from the pit to
Alyce?
• Why did Will tell Alyce she had brought him great luck?
• What did the villagers notice about Alyce in the late fall of that year?
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The Bailiff’s Wife’s Baby• How did Alyce startle the town boys when
she saw them teasing the cat?
• Why did Jane desert Joan, the bailiff`s wife, during her labor?
• How was Alyce able to help Joan along her delivery?
• How does the bailiff respond to Jane when she returns for her fee?
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The Boy• How did Alyce begin to learn more of the
midwife’s skills?
• When Alyce goes to visit Tansy’s calves, what does she find?
• Where does Alyce send Edward and why?
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The Leaving• Why did Emma Blunt request Alyce to
deliver her baby?
• How did Emma Blunt’s delivery go?
• How did Alyce react to her inability to deliver Emma’s baby?
• Where did Alyce go?
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The Inn• Whom did Alyce become fascinated with
watching at the inn?
• How does Alyce learn to recognize letters and words?
• How does Alyce answer Magister Reese’s question, “Inn girl, what do you want?”
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Visitors
• What two familiar visitors come to the inn that spring?
• How did Alyce react to the visitors?
• What information did Jane Sharp share with Magister Reese that Alyce overheard?
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The Manor & Edward • Are Edward and Alyce really related? Why did Edward
tell the cook that they were?
• In what way did Alyce learn the lesson of the “mighty distance between what one imagines and what is” when she traveled to the manor?
• What chore did Alyce volunteer to do while visiting Edward at the manor?
• What does Alyce see in her reflection in the river?
• What is the symbolism between washing the lamb and Alyce?
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The Baby• What does the prosperous-looking man
claim is his wife’s ailment (illness)?
• What actually is the woman’s condition?
• How does Alyce help the situation?
• After the ordeal that night, what does Alyce do and why?
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The Midwife’s Apprentice• What three offers does Alyce get that June
from people she knows at the inn?
• What does Alyce decide she must do?
• When Alyce returns to Jane’s the first time,what is Jane’s response?
• What does Alyce say to Jane the second time that gets her to open her door and let her and the cat in?
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Author’s Notes
• In medieval England was midwifery an honorable profession? Why or why not?
• What three things were the mainstays of medieval midwifery?