Summary: "The Old Wise Woman"

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2 questions
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Reread paragraphs 6-10. Drag and drop the important details into the correct category to objectively summarize what happened in the excerpt.

Draggable itemCorresponding Item
with sadness
Who?
years after the decree
What?
the farmer cared for his mother and did not want her to die
When?
the farmer keeps putting off telling his mother it was time to go to the mountains to die
Where?
a village in Japan
Why?
the young farmer and the aged mother
How?
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Combine the responses from the previous question to form a summary of paragraphs 6-10. Your summary should be 1-4 sentences long. You can add/delete a few words in order to make sense.