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Chapters 1 - 4

• The following version of this book was used to create this Lesson Plan: Donovan, John. I’ll Get There. It Better Be Worth the Trip. Harper & Row, 1969.


• The limousine drives up to the front of the house. 


• The narrator is in the jump seat by the door closest to the sidewalk, so he opens the door and fumbles with the seat he is sitting on. 


• The driver, seeing the boy’s struggle, offers to open the door for him. 


• He opens the door from the outside and addresses the boy as “Mr. Ross” (3). 


• “Mr. Ross” does not like the driver; he needs a haircut “in the worst way” (3). 


• Normally the boy would not care about haircuts, but for the limousine driver at his grandmother’s funeral, he thought they could have at least given the family a guy who had had his hair cut. 


• His mother...

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