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Flipped · Garden Heights
Part 5
for Flipped · Part 5 · Chapters 9–10
8 Parts40 min
What Happens in Part 5
In Chapter 9, Patsy Loski gathers the family for breakfast and announces that she wants the Bakers over for dinner. Chet Duncan is for it; Rick and Lynetta are not, and Friday at six is settled anyway. Bryce, certain that two years of thrown-away eggs will surface at the table, confesses everything to his mother, who agrees to keep it between them if he shows he understands why honesty matters. At school Juli will not speak to him: a remark about her uncle went unchallenged in the library and she heard it. The newspaper photograph of Juli in the sycamore stays folded in his folder. Chapter 10 crosses the street. Robert Baker drives to Greenhaven for his brother David’s birthday and Juli asks to come. David’s room holds a wall of finished puzzles; the gift is a three-thousand-piece sky with a pinwheel on the box, and David blows it and calls out a color. They walk out for ice cream cones before the drive home.
What We Will Learn
Section
What you will practice
Vocabulary
Words for care and ability: confess, remorse, devoted, dignity, capable…
Literary Elements
Juxtaposition, indirect characterization, and two fathers used as foils
Cross-Curricular
Family caregiving — how a household organizes around a relative who needs support
Chapter Summary
Ch.
What happens
9
Looming Large and Smelly — Bryce narrates. His mother insists the family sit down to breakfast together and announces that she wants the Bakers over for dinner. Chet backs the idea; Rick and Lynetta want no part of it, and the evening is set for Friday at six. Bryce panics, certain the eggs he threw away for two years will surface at the table, and he finally confesses the whole thing to his mother; she agrees to keep it between them if he shows he has understood why honesty matters. At school Juli will not speak to him, because a remark about her uncle went unchallenged in the library and she heard it. The newspaper photograph of Juli in the sycamore stays folded inside his folder.
10
The Visit — Juli narrates. Her father drives out to Greenhaven for his brother David’s birthday, and Juli asks to come along. David is delighted to see them both. One wall of his room is covered with finished jigsaw puzzles, glued down and kept, and Robert has brought him another — three thousand pieces of blue sky and cloud, with a pinwheel set on top of the box. David blows the pinwheel and calls out a color. The three of them walk to a drugstore for ice cream cones before the drive home. Juli watches her father with his brother and understands what the family’s money has been quietly doing all these years.
Part 1
Vocabulary
Study 10 key words from Chapters 9–10, then answer each question.
📚Knowledge Bank · Careful Words for Ability and Care
Language & Health · Talking About DisabilityPart 5 asks for precise words, because the sloppy ones do real damage. A developmental disability is one that appears early in life and affects learning, communication, or the tasks of daily living; it describes the support a person needs, not the value of a person. Careful writers put the person first: a man with a disability, never a man shrunk down to a label. The everyday abilities specialists actually assess are called adaptive skills — cooking, dressing, handling money, getting where you meant to go. A relative who supplies the daily help is a caregiver, and the short planned breaks that let a caregiver rest are called respite. Somebody who speaks up for another person’s rights in schools, clinics, and offices is an advocate. Notice how many of these words describe what a family arranges rather than what a person lacks. That choice is deliberate, and it separates a description of a life from a verdict.
confessv.Ch.9
To admit that you did something wrong
“It takes more nerve to confess at breakfast than to keep lying at dinner.”
deceptionn.Ch.9
The act of making someone believe something untrue
“Two years of quiet deception ended in about ninety seconds.”
dreadn.Ch.9
A heavy fear about something that is coming
“The dinner was still four days off, and the dread arrived early.”
remorsen.Ch.9
Deep regret for having done something wrong
“Remorse is what is left when there is nobody else to blame.”
cowardlyadj.Ch.9
Lacking the courage to do what is right
“Saying nothing while a friend jokes is the cowardly option.”
devotedadj.Ch.10
Loyal and loving toward a person over a long time
“A devoted brother remembers the birthday without a reminder.”
obligationn.Ch.10
Something a person feels bound to do
“He never once described the drive to Greenhaven as an obligation.”
dignityn.Ch.10
The respect a person deserves simply for being a person
“Nobody at that drugstore counter had to earn any dignity.”
capableadj.Ch.10
Able to do a particular thing well
“Ask what somebody is capable of before deciding what he is worth.”
routinen.Ch.10
A fixed way of doing things, repeated regularly
“The birthday visit had become a routine neither brother would drop.”
ⓘ The vocabulary words in this list are selected to help you understand and complete this workbook. Some may not appear verbatim in the original novel.
1To admit that you did something wrong is to ___.Ch.9
2Deep regret for having done something wrong is ___.Ch.9
3‘Deception’ means making someone believe something that is not true.Ch.9
4Someone loyal and loving toward a person over many years is ___.Ch.10
5Fill in each blank with the correct word.Ch.9–10
Word choices:dreadcapableroutinecowardly- some words will not be used
The dinner was still four days off, and the arrived early.
Ask what somebody is of before deciding what he is worth.
6A ‘cowardly’ choice is the brave one that costs a person something.Ch.9
7The respect a person deserves simply for being a person is ___.Ch.10
8An ‘obligation’ is something a person feels bound to do.Ch.10
9Fill in the blanks with the correct words.Ch.9–10
Word choices:deceptiondevotedremorseconfess- some words will not be used
Two years of quiet ended in about ninety seconds.
A brother remembers the birthday without a reminder.
10A fixed way of doing things, repeated regularly, is a ___.Ch.10
Part 2
Comprehension
Show you understood what happens in Chapters 9–10.
📋Knowledge Bank · How a Household Organizes Around Care
Sociology · Family CaregivingWhen one member of a family needs lifelong support, the whole household reorganizes around that fact, usually without ever holding a meeting about it. Somebody becomes the one who telephones, somebody drives on weekends, and somebody quietly earns the money. Where the relative lives is the largest decision: at home, in a supported apartment with staff who visit, in a small group home, or in a larger residential center with people on duty overnight. Every option costs, and public programs rarely cover all of it, so families pay the remainder out of wages meant for other things — a bigger house, a repaired fence, a college fund. Siblings notice this earliest and complain about it least. Researchers who study caregiving families keep finding the same pattern: the arrangement is never one choice but a long series of them, renegotiated whenever health, money, or age shifts underneath it. What holds the whole thing together is rarely money. It is commitment.
1What does Bryce’s mother announce at the family breakfast?Ch.9
2How does the rest of the Loski family react to the dinner plan?Ch.9
3Why does Bryce finally confess about the eggs?Ch.9
4What does Bryce’s mother ask of him in return for keeping the eggs quiet?Ch.9
5Write the numbers 1–5 in the boxes to show the correct order of events in Chapters 9–10. Number 1 = what happens first.Ch.9–10
Afraid the eggs will surface at the table, Bryce confesses the whole thing.
Bryce’s mother calls the family to breakfast and proposes inviting the Bakers.
Robert Baker drives to Greenhaven for David’s birthday, and Juli comes along.
The three of them go out for ice cream cones before the drive home.
Chet supports the plan, Rick and Lynetta object, and Friday at six is settled.
6Juli is friendly with Bryce at school during Chapter 9.Ch.9
7What has Bryce kept folded inside his school folder?Ch.9
8What does Robert Baker bring his brother for his birthday?Ch.10
9David’s room has a wall covered with jigsaw puzzles he has finished.Ch.10
10Juli goes to Greenhaven because her father makes her come along.Ch.10
Part 3
Literary Elements
Understanding HOW and WHY Wendelin Van Draanen tells the story across Chapters 9–10.
🧠Knowledge Bank · Setting Two Scenes Side by Side
Literary Craft · JuxtapositionChapter 9 talks about Uncle David; Chapter 10 takes you to him. Van Draanen never argues the point in her own voice — she sets the two chapters next to each other and lets the reader do the arithmetic. That technique is juxtaposition, and it lands harder than a lecture because the reader arrives at the conclusion unassisted. In the first chapter David exists as a subject: something mentioned at a breakfast table, something a boy at school can turn into a joke while another boy declines to stop him. In the second he exists as a man with a birthday, a wall of finished puzzles, and a color he shouts when a pinwheel spins. Notice too that Chapter 10 builds Robert Baker without a single adjective; we learn what he is by watching what he chooses and how he speaks to his brother, which is indirect characterization. Placed against Rick Loski he becomes a foil — two fathers, two instincts.
Juxtaposition
Chapter 9 keeps David at a distance — a topic at a breakfast table, a joke in a library. Chapter 10 puts the reader in the room with him. The two chapters side by side make the argument the author never states.
Indirect characterization
Nobody tells us Robert Baker is devoted. We watch him choose the exact puzzle his brother will love, set a pinwheel on the box, and walk him to a drugstore counter.
Foil
Two fathers, opposite instincts. Rick Loski measures the Bakers by their yard; Robert Baker spends his Saturday on a birthday. Each one shows up more clearly beside the other.
1Putting Chapter 9 and Chapter 10 next to each other is an example of ___.Ch.9–10
2Fill in each blank with the correct literary term.Ch.9–10
Word choices:juxtapositionfoilsettingrhyme- some words will not be used
Setting two contrasting scenes side by side is .
A character who shows up another by contrast is a .
3How does Chapter 10 show us what kind of man Robert Baker is?Ch.9–10
4In Chapter 10, Juli tells the reader outright that her father is a good man.Ch.10
5Rick Loski and Robert Baker work as foils for each other in this part.Ch.9–10
6The chapter title ‘Looming Large and Smelly’ mainly refers to ___.Ch.9
7Fill in the blank with the correct literary term.Ch.9–10
Word choices:indirectdialoguemeterstanza- some words will not be used
Showing a character through actions rather than statements is characterization.
8Chapter 10 introduces David only through what other characters say about him.Ch.10
9Why is it effective that the author never states the lesson of these two chapters?Ch.9–10
10Chapters 9 and 10 mainly work together to ___.Ch.9–10
Part 4
Think Deeper
Four deeper challenges — no single-word recall. Read, weigh the evidence, and reason it out.
💡Knowledge Bank · What the Word Capable Measures
Ethics · Ability and WorthEvery test measures something narrower than the thing it is named after. A reading score measures reading on one morning, with one passage, under one set of rules; it does not measure curiosity, and it certainly does not measure a person. The gap matters most when the label fixed to somebody is about ability, because that kind of label travels far beyond the room where it was assigned. Useful questions are available: what was this measure built to predict, who set the passing line, and what is the number silently taken to mean about a human being’s worth? Uncle David is not going to pass an algebra exam. He is also delighted by a puzzle, generous with his attention, and completely reliable about the things he loves, none of which appears on any scale anyone has built. The sharpest observation in these chapters is that the discomfort belongs to the people watching. A judgment like that describes the judges.
Think back over these two chapters. On one side of the street a family argues over breakfast about whether to have the neighbors to dinner, and a boy carries around two years of thrown-away eggs and a remark he let pass in a library. On the other side, a father gets in the car on a Saturday because his brother has a birthday, and his daughter asks to come. There is a wall of finished puzzles, a pinwheel on a gift box, a shouted color, and ice cream at a drugstore counter. Nothing dramatic happens at Greenhaven. That is exactly the point: the visit is ordinary, and everything difficult about it has been happening back at the breakfast table.
Original passage written for Garden Heights — not a quotation from the novel.
1Claim: “Chapter 10 answers Chapter 9 by replacing a subject of conversation with a person.” — choose the two details that best prove it.Claim & Evidence
2Seen from the Loski house, or Seen at Greenhaven? Tap each detail to send it left or right.Sort into two
◄ Seen from the Loski houseSeen at Greenhaven ►
3Match each cause to its result. For each cause, pick its result.Cause & Effect
Bryce’s mother announces a dinner with the Bakers→
Bryce confesses the two years of thrown-away eggs→
A remark about Juli’s uncle goes unchallenged→
David’s birthday comes around again→
4Fill both blanks to complete the reasoning.Build the Argument
Van Draanen sends Juli and her father to Greenhaven right after the Loski breakfast because , which shows that .
Part 5
Standardized Test
Reading passage · Family and Care · Words in Context & Central Ideas · SAT & TOEFL-style practice
🎯 What this section practices
You already have these skills from the sections above — here they appear in the exact question types the SAT and TOEFL use. Read the passage (the highlighted words are tested below), then answer. Tap an answer to select it, then tap it again to confirm — you can change your choice until you confirm.
SATCentral Ideas — the main point of the passage as a whole
TOEFLFactual Information — a fact stated directly in the passage
SATWords in Context — what a word means the way this passage uses it
TOEFLVocabulary — the meaning of a tested word as this passage uses it
SATInference — a conclusion the passage supports without ever stating it outright
Defining Ability and Adaptive Skills
A developmental disability begins early in life and affects how a person learns, communicates, or manages the tasks of an ordinary day. The label covers an enormous range, and two people who share it may live very differently. For that reason specialists rarely describe anyone with a single number; alongside any test score they assess adaptive skills, the practical abilities a person uses to get through a day. Dressing, cooking, handling money, and finding the way to a familiar store all count.
Families organize around those needs in whatever way they can manage. Some relatives live at home for life; others move to supported apartments, to small group homes, or to larger residential centers with staff on duty. The arrangement is seldom settled once, because needs change, savings run down, and the parents who did the caring grow old themselves. Public programs help, though they rarely cover everything, so the remainder comes out of wages that were meant for something else. Many households also rely on respite care, short planned breaks that let a caregiver rest without anybody being abandoned.
Money, though, is only half of it. The harder question is what the word capable is being asked to measure, since a person who will never pass an algebra test may still be patient, funny, loyal, and entirely dependable about the work he loves. Relatives and professionals who advocate for somebody spend much of their effort correcting that narrow reading in schools, clinics, and offices. Current standards favor asking what supports a person needs instead of cataloging what a person lacks — a question that, answered honestly, describes every one of us.
Original passage written for Garden Heights — not a quotation from the novel.
1What is the main idea of the passage?SAT · Central Ideas
2According to the passage, adaptive skills include ___.TOEFL · Factual Information
3In the passage, adaptive most nearly means ___.SAT · Words in Context
4In the passage, respite care is ___.TOEFL · Vocabulary
5In the passage, to advocate for somebody is to ___.SAT · Words in Context
6The passage says a care arrangement is rarely settled once because ___.TOEFL · Factual Information
7According to the passage, public programs ___.TOEFL · Factual Information
8The passage suggests that describing a person with one score ___.SAT · Inference
9What does the author suggest by ending on a question that describes everyone?SAT · Inference
10According to the passage, current standards prefer to ask ___.TOEFL · Factual Information
Part 6 · Optional
Creative Writing
A bonus challenge to practice your English. Take your time and have fun with it.
About This Section
This writing task is optional and is not part of your auto-graded score. The feedback below checks only the basics — length, spelling, and grammar — not whether your ideas are right or wrong. It is meant for classroom discussion and creative practice, so feel free to use your imagination!
Writing Task — Part 5 “The Person Behind the Sentence”
In Chapter 9 Uncle David is a thing people say sentences about. In Chapter 10 he is a man with a birthday, a wall of puzzles, and a color he shouts. Write about a person you once knew only by description — a neighbor, a relative, a new student — and what changed once you actually spent time with them. 6–10 sentences. End by naming one thing the description had left out entirely.
You can start with: “Before I met him, everything I knew about him had come from somebody else…”
0 / 40 words minimum
🗣 Teach It · Just for Fun (optional)
No right or wrong — close the screen and tell someone nearby what happened in this part. Can’t find anyone? Tell yourself out loud. The moment you teach it, you truly understand it.
Part 5 Complete!
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Independent study guide by Garden Heights. Not affiliated with or endorsed by Wendelin Van Draanen. Contains original analysis only; no text from the novel is reproduced. Reference text: This workbook follows Wendelin Van Draanen’s classic text (the standard Puffin edition sold worldwide). Revised 2023 UK editions change some wording and may not match the vocabulary studied here.
