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Miss Honey responds that they were called Browse all BookRags Study Guides. Copyrights Matilda from BookRags. All rights reserved. Toggle navigation. Sign Up. Sign In. Get Matilda from Amazon. View the Study Pack. View the Lesson Plans. Order our Matilda Study Guide. Plot Summary. Chapter 1: The Reader of Books. Matilda says repeatedly that she did not.

The two argue until Miss Trunchbull threatens to beat Matilda with a belt. Once everyone is seated, Matilda concentrates on the glass with the newt in it. She experiences a very strange feeling, as if her eyes were connected to millions of invisible little arms. She uses her mind to push the glass onto Miss Trunchbull.

The newt spills on Miss Trunchbull, who immediately becomes very angry. She blames Matilda, but Miss Honey tells her that nobody in the classroom moved. Miss Trunchbull marches out of the room and slams the door. Miss Honey lets the class go to the playground for the rest of the day. Matilda does not join her classmates on the playground. She decides to tell Miss Honey what she has done.

Once the two are alone, Matilda tells Miss Honey that she did not put the newt in the water jug, but she did cause the glass to tip over. Miss Honey does not understand at first. Matilda explains the powerful feeling and how she wanted the glass to fall. Miss Honey doubts her but asks if Matilda thinks that she could repeat the trick. Matilda agrees, and Miss Honey sets up the empty glass on the desk.

Matilda focuses on it and feels the same strange power. She wills the glass to tip over, and Miss Honey is amazed. Matilda accepts and asks Miss Honey not to tell anyone about her new powers. Matilda follows Miss Honey across town and speaks excitedly with her. Matilda is not concerned. Miss Honey recites a Dylan Thomas poem to her as they walk toward the small cottage.

Matilda finds the cottage and the location unreal and fantastic, like something out of a fairy tale. Matilda feels that there is a mystery somewhere in the cottage and wants to know more. Miss Honey tells her that no one has ever had the power that Matilda has been given.

She wonders if there is a limit to how large an object Matilda can move, or how far she can move it. Matilda is excited to find out. While sitting and drinking tea, Matilda asks Miss Honey if other teachers are as poor as she is. This makes Miss Honey uncomfortable, and Matilda apologizes. Miss Honey decides to tell her story to Matilda, even though Matilda is just a young girl. Her aunt was very mean and made Miss Honey her slave, forcing her to do all the housework and cooking. Miss Honey eventually went to the local teacher college while still caring for her aunt.

Miss Honey was only given a single pound each week the British equivalent of a dollar. Miss Honey found the small cottage and rented it for 10 pence a week to escape. She knows that Miss Honey must have had an abusive childhood and feels sorry for her. Miss Honey apologizes for telling Matilda her life story and asks if Matilda would like to practice her powers.

Matilda says she would rather go home. Matilda promises not to bring it up to anyone, including Miss Honey. She then asks Miss Honey three questions. Matilda finds that her house is empty. She decides that she needs to help Miss Honey. She sets the cigar on her dressing table and uses her new powers to push it off.

She then tries to lift the cigar, but that task is more difficult. After some effort, Matilda is able to lift the cigar with her mind and hold it in midair for about a minute.

She finds it very exhausting. She practices every day after school for a week, until she is able to move the cigar in midair. She is pleased by her progress and decides to put her plan into action. Miss Honey tells her students that Miss Trunchbull will be teaching them again. Miss Honey warns them to be careful and not talk back. When Miss Trunchbull arrives, she insults the students and then starts asking them about multiplication tables. The students that she asks are too scared to answer properly, and she lifts one of them by the ankle.

While she is holding the student, a piece of chalk starts writing on the chalkboard behind her. A boy named Nigel yells out, and everyone turns to look. The chalk, floating in midair, writes a message from Magnus to Agatha, telling her to give Jenny her house back, or he would come and get her. Miss Honey notices that Matilda is in deep concentration. Miss Trunchbull faints. Nigel dumps the jug of water on her face in an attempt to wake her.

The school nurse and several other teachers arrive and take Miss Trunchbull away. Miss Honey lets the students go to the playground but gives Matilda a hug and a kiss on the way out.

After recovering from her fainting fit, Miss Trunchbull leaves the school and does not return. Trilby, the Deputy Headmaster, goes to her home and finds that she has moved out. Matilda is promoted to the senior class, but she still visits Miss Honey regularly. Matilda finds that she no longer can move objects with her mind. Miss Honey suggests that maybe Matilda lost her powers because she is finally challenged in school and does not have all the extra mental energy.

Not long after, Matilda arrives home to find her family frantically packing the car to go to the airport. She asks where they are going and when they will return. Her father says they are going to Spain and will never return. Matilda runs off to Miss Honey, who explains to Matilda that Mr. Wormwood works with criminals, selling stolen cars.

Miss Honey is not surprised that he is running away. Matilda says she wants to stay with Miss Honey instead. Matilda asks her father if she can stay behind with Miss Honey. Registered Charity No. Company limited by guarantee number Roald Dahl's Marvellous Children's Charity. Made by Opencultu. Basket 0. Matilda lesson plans A selection of lesson plans helping students explore the themes in Roald Dahl's Matilda.

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