Dark to Dark
by Ray Bernard.

Here I am writing again. This is going to be hard I know. But I must do it anyway. I've been working from dark to dark. I am too tired to write anything. Today I worked near Lynn Valley Road. I was there no more than ten minutes and fell down three times. And if I fell down one more time I was going home. The roof was very slippery. The boss hit his finger several times. He said, "If I hit my finger one more time, I am going home". When I started school, I couldn't read a book. But now I can read a book but I get stuck on some words. 

Background Information

Sometimes you don't feel like doing something you know you have to do. What can make a person discouraged? What do you do when this happens to you?

Questions

1. Why is Ray tired?

2. What do you think Ray does for a living?

3. Where did Ray work near?

4. How many times did Ray fall?

5. What's another word for slippery?

6. Use the word several in a sentence?

7. Do you think Ray and his boss really went home? Why?

8. How do you think Ray's boss hit his finger?

9. Could Ray read when he started school?

10. What does stuck mean in the last sentence?