<p>Name ______Period ______“Marigolds” Writing Assignment Questions</p><p>1. Why does Lizabeth destroy Miss Lottie’s marigolds?</p><p>2. How does the climax of the story – Lizabeth’s decision to destroy the marigolds – begin a rite of passage from childhood to the beginning of womanhood?</p><p>3. Why does Miss Lottie never plant marigolds again, despite Lizabeth’s “wild contrition” – her sincere remorse?</p><p>4. What do you think the narrator means at the end of the story when she says that she too has planted marigolds?</p><p>5. What do you think is the best way to make it up to someone we have deliberately hurt? What should we do if that person does not forgive us?</p><p>6. The narrator says, “This was the beginning of compassion, and one cannot have both compassion and innocence.” What do you think she means?</p><p>7. How did you react to Lizabeth’s destruction of the marigolds? </p><p>************************************************************************ T-Chart Pre-Write</p><p>QUESTION: ______</p><p>HOOK: ______</p><p>TOPIC SENTENCE: ______</p><p>THESIS STATEMENT EXAMPLES/REASONS 1.</p><p>2.</p><p>3. </p>