Reordering Exercise

Nicolle Lewis relates the story of her mother’s stroke and hospitalization in “Your Mother Might Not Come Home.” Have your students put the following list in chronological order.

--She fixes soup for her mother.

--Her father tells the family that her mother may not come home from the hospital.

-- She sneaks into the hospital to see her mother.

--She makes pictures and poster to decorate her mother’s hospital room.

--A nurse brings her mother home.

--Her mother’s mouth begins to move to one side and her eyes begin to droop.

--Her father announces that her mother is going to be okay.

--She overhears her father talking to her grandmother about her mother’s condition.

--The doctor explains to her father why her mother had the stroke.