An Honestly Fun Camp

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An Honestly Fun Camp

Will couldn’t wait for September when school would start. It was early
August, and he was at the same summer camp he had been going to for
the last five years. His dad went to the camp when he was a boy and loved
it, so Will didn’t want to disappoint his dad by telling him that he didn’t even
like it.
By the middle of August, Will had had more than enough. He had had
enough of the horses, enough of the baseball games, enough of the
canoeing and enough of the lousy camp food.
He wrote to his mom and asked her if she would pick him up early, but he
didn’t want his mom to tell his dad. She responded in a letter which said, “I
can’t do that. I am always honest with your dad. If you really want to leave,
I will talk to him about it.”
Will was still too worried about disappointing his dad, so he wrote back to
his mom that he would stay for the last two weeks and try to make the best
of it. He asked his mom if she would make his favorite meal when he got
home.
During that last week, Will was looking so forward to
the meal his mom would be making that every time he ate a camp
meal he imagined he was eating his mom’s cooking. All of a sudden
, the food didn’t taste as bad.
Will decided to be honest with his camp counselors. He told
the head horseback counselor that he wasn’t comfortable with the
horse he had been assigned. The counselor asked Will which horse he
might feel better riding. Will was then assigned to Misty for the last
week, and he started to like horseback riding.
Will never liked playing baseball because he didn’t like playing 1st
base. He told the baseball counselor, and the counselor switched
him to play catcher. Will started to actually like baseball.
As for canoeing, Will always ended up sitting in the bow of the
canoe. He told his counselor that he would like to try sitting in the stern.
Once he was able to take on the role of the stern paddler, he started to
enjoy canoeing because he liked steering the canoe. When Will’s
parents came to pick him up from camp, he said to them in all
honesty, “This was the best summer at camp ever.” He then added
that he couldn’t wait for next year’s camp, and he might even want
to stay for an extra week or two.

1. Why would Will’s dad want Will to go to the same camp he went to as
a young boy?
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2. Why did Will think his dad would be disappointed if he learned that
Will didn’t like the camp?
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3. Why do you think the food started to taste better when Will thought
about his mom’s cooking?
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4. Which horse did Will think he would feel better riding?
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5. Which end of a canoe is the stern, front or rear?
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6. What was the turning point that helped Will start to like camp?
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Admin Posts : 90 Join date : 2020-05-08

Answers:
1. Why would Will’s dad want Will to go to the same camp he went to as
a young boy?
Will’s dad wants Will to go to the same camp he went to as a young
boy, because he loved the camp.

2. Why did Will think his dad would be disappointed if he learned that
Will didn’t like the camp?
Will thought his dad would be disappointed, because his dad thought
Will would love the camp too. He would be disappointed to hear that
Will did not like the camp.

3. Why do you think the food started to taste better when Will thought
about his mom’s cooking?
The food started to taste better when Will thought about his mom’s
cooking because he likes his mom’s cooking and imagined the food
tasted like his mom’s cooking.

4. Which horse did Will think he would feel better riding?
Will thought he would feel better riding Misty.

5. Which end of a canoe is the stern, front or rear?
The stern is the back of the canoe as that is where you steer the
canoe.

6. What was the turning point that helped Will start to like camp?
The turning point that helped Will to start to like camp was when he
decided to be honest with his camp counselors.