Seventeen Oranges – Bill Naughton
Read Bill Naughton’s complete Grade 9 story in its original order, followed immediately by the full textbook author note.
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Seventeen Oranges: Complete Prose and Author Note
Read Bill Naughton’s complete Grade 9 story in its original order, followed immediately by the full textbook author note.
Open article →Seventeen Oranges: Dock Work and Clem’s Plan
Follow the pony-and-cart job, homemade apron, banana habit and Clem Jones’s staged ship’s-cat trick that conceals a Dutch cheese.
Open article →Seventeen Oranges: Evidence, Silence and Fear
Trace how the broken apron exposes bulging pockets, Pongo counts seventeen oranges, and fear of evidence makes the narrator stay silent.
Open article →Seventeen Oranges: The Race to Eat the Evidence
Follow the inner voice, the pips-peel-chunks method, the three-orange checkpoint and the final struggle before the policemen return.
Open article →Seventeen Oranges: Release, Consequences and Irony
See how Pongo’s search fails, silence continues, the narrator is released without evidence and seventeen oranges cause a week of sickness.
Open article →Seventeen Oranges: Author, Glossary and Revision
Revise Bill Naughton, seven glossary terms, the ship’s-cat and orange sidebars, and every count, duration and sequence in the story.
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