Summary

Greg writes in his Thursday entry that even though the play was coming up in just a few days, the students still didn’t know their lines and Mrs. Norton kept adding scenes and lines. To Greg’s dismay Mrs. Norton had even come up with a song for the trees to sing. He was happy only because he believed that Rodrick wouldn’t be attending to watch the play because it would be a semiformal occasion. In Greg’s favor, he writes that one of the other boys assigned to play a tree fell and chipped a tooth because he couldn’t use his arms to break his fall. Because of that injury, the teacher had allowed armholes to be cut into the tree costumes.

On Tuesday, the day of the school play, Greg writes that he knew the performance wasn’t going...