SING TO THE DAWN

SUMMARY CHAPTER SIX

1. At ________________________ time, Dawans mother tries to talk to her father about
Dawans ________________________ but he ________________________ her.
2. Dawans father tells Dawan that she has had enough schooling because she
would just be a ___________________ and __________________________.
3. Kwai speaks out against Dawan for himself.
4. Dawans father thinks that more schooling for Kwai will be _____________________ for
him and the family.
5. After dinner, Dawan goes down to the river and thinks that perhaps she should
______________________________________. He could make __________________ better for
everybody.
6. Later, Dawan _________________________ and decides to fight for her ___________________
with the head monks help.

SUMMARY CHAPTER SEVEN

1. The next morning, Dawan goes to the market to buy _______________________________.
2. Dawan cannot buy the ______________________________ from a fat man because he
charges ________________________. Dawan has __________________________ only.
3. _______________, the flower girl, calls Dawan and gives her one for free.
4. She also advises Dawan to _______________ a caged _________________________ to make
more ___________________________. Dawan declines because she does not _____________
______________________________________________.
5. The flower girl complains to Dawan that her brother, __________________________, is
___________________________ and fights for what he wants. Vichai is Dawans
_______________________________.
6. Dawan then tells the flower girl that her brother, Kwai is ___________________ in the
examination. She worries that Kwai may tell their father about it and her father
may ____________________ her to go to the City.
7. Bao advises Dawan not to __________________________ her chance without fighting for
her _______________________.

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SUMMARY CHAPTER EIGHT
1. Dawan sees the head monk in the temple _____________________________ and asks him
to ________________________ her father to let her go to the City school as it is her right.
2. She tells him that she wants to study everything there and help people but her
brother wants to go there too.
3. The head monk advises Dawan to learn everything she wants in the
____________________. He also adds that everything in this world, including her help,
will not last and he explains the teachings of the ____________________ to her. Dawan
still wants a chance to _________________ things although others have failed.
4. The monk tells her not to waste time dreaming of _____________________________
because she cannot achieve anything as a mere ___________________________.
5. She tells him angrily that he would help her brother accept the scholarship if he
had come. The monk explains that if her brother had won the scholarship, there
would be ___________________________________.
6. Dawan is angry that even the head monk does not help her because she is a
____________________, and she runs away crying.