Kit Learns a Lesson
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Facts
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- Author: Valerie Tripp
- Illustrators: Walter Rane
- First Published: 2000
- Setting: Autumn 1932
Characters
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Introduced
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- Roger
- Mr. Peck
Only in Kit Learns a Lesson
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- Mr. Fisher
Chapter by Chapter Summary
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Chapter One: Messages
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Chapter Two: Pilgrims and Indians
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Chapter Three: Spilling the Beans
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Chapter Four: Kit's Hard Times
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Looking Back: School in 1934
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Discusses education during the Great Depression. Topics include:
- How children were separated by grades, and what they studied
- Financial problems schools faced and ways school boards saved money
- How schools in the South were affected due to weather
- How rural families who were affected by school closures moved to California and how the constant disruption in their lives affected children's education
- Consequences the Great Depression had on teachers' salaries
- Ways teachers helped students affected by the Great Depression, such as working for charities
