Welcome to Chapter 22: “The Country of the Quadlings!” This post offers classroom-ready resources for exploring setting, tone, and how new environments influence character behavior and decision-making.
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🧝♀️ Chapter Summary
Chapter 22: “The Country of the Quadlings”
Dorothy, Toto, the Scarecrow, the Tin Woodman, and the Lion approach a large hill. The Scarecrow starts to cross first but hears a voice warning him not to proceed. A strange creature appears—short and stout, with no arms, but a head that shoots forward like lightning. The Scarecrow is knocked down, and hundreds of these creatures, called Hammer-Heads, emerge, laughing at his fall.
The Lion charges up the hill in anger but is knocked down as well. The Tin Woodman suggests using the Golden Cap to summon the Winged Monkeys. They arrive and carry the group over the hill into the Country of the Quadlings.
After stopping at a farm for a meal, the travelers reach Glinda’s castle and are admitted.
Chapter 22: “The Country of the Quadlings” Projects
Mentor Sentences
One way to turn classic literature into a powerful teaching tool is to pull mentor sentences straight from the text. Instead of random worksheets, students get to see grammar, punctuation, and style in action—inside a story they’re already reading.
Here are a few examples you can use right from Chapter 22 of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz:
📌The fences and houses and bridges were all painted bright red, just as they had been painted yellow in the country of the Winkies and blue in the country of the Munchkins.
Focus: Repetition for Emphasis + Sentence Rhythm
Practice Prompt: Write a sentence that repeats three nouns for emphasis. Use these nouns: books, papers, folders.
📌Dorothy ran down and helped the Scarecrow to his feet, and the Lion came up to her, feeling rather bruised and sore, and said, “It is useless to fight people with shooting heads; no one can withstand them.”
Focus: Participial Phrase + Sentence Expansion
Practice Prompt: Write a sentence that includes a participial phrase describing how someone feels. Use this idea: walked slowly, tired and cold.
📌”Good-bye, and thank you very much,” returned the girl; and the Monkeys rose into the air and were out of sight in a twinkling.
Focus: Imagery + Verb Choice
Practice Prompt: Write a sentence that uses vivid verbs to describe something disappearing quickly. Use these verbs: darted, vanished.
Figurative Language Focus: Repetition & Imagery
Repetition and vivid verbs help build rhythm and movement in this chapter. Look for phrases that use repeated structure or strong imagery to describe the Quadlings’ world.
The fences and houses and bridges… [uses repetition for rhythm]
The Monkeys “rose into the air and were out of sight in a twinkling” [great for vivid imagery]
Lesson Idea: Explore how repetition and vivid verbs create rhythm and movement. Students revise a dull sentence using these techniques.
Focus Skills
Each chapter in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Novel Study includes a constructed response question and a skill-based graphic organizer. These two pieces are part of the full-paid unit, which includes comprehension questions, skill lessons, assessments, answer keys, and Google Slides versions.
The free handout linked below includes the activities from the blog post for this chapter. If you’d like the complete set of constructed responses and skill organizers for all 24 chapters, you’ll find them inside the full unit once it is released.
Constructed Response Skill – Theme
Students identify two central themes from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and support each with textual evidence. Suggested themes include:
- Courage and Growth: The Lion’s transformation from cowardly to brave, especially in Chapters 6 and 21.
- Friendship and Loyalty: The group’s constant support for one another, including rescuing the Scarecrow and Tin Woodman, and helping Dorothy reach Glinda.
Standards: RL.5.2, RL.6.2, RL.7.2
Language Arts Skill – Context Clues
Students use context clues to determine the meanings of words from the chapter. This organizer focuses on:
- Contrast or Antonym Clue
- Association Clue
- Tone and Setting Clue
- Cause and Effect Clue
In addition to the Context Clues Organizer in the PDF, a practice set of task cards is available in two formats: printable and Boom Learning decks. The cards feature sentences from the text, and students must find a synonym for a bold word in a multiple-choice format.
Click here to download the FREE Chapter 22 resource.
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