Your assignment is to write a summary of The Secret Garden. Remember, when summarizing a fiction text, you should briefly retell the story, without giving away the ending. Refer to your prewriting worksheet Summarizing Fiction to help you organize your summary.

Lizabeth remembers her childhood, during the summer when she destroyed miss lottie's marigolds. the emotions that she experienced from the guilt of her destruction made her feel pain more than the joys and fun that she had, and this motivated her to taunt miss lottie.