ch 6 questions and voc words and chapter assignment

Voc words

words from the chapter that is new to you.

define, sentence, and picture

Massacres

lVoluntary

lParables

lBlistered

lMidday

lEngulfed

lScouting

lFertile

lPitied

lOccasional

Chapter 6 assignment----adobe photoshop or chapter chart

A Long Way Gone

Ch.6 Questions

1. What are some advantages and disadvantages of being in a group of 6 boys?
2. Why were children feared?
3. How did they avoid confrontation with people in villages?
4. What was the consequence of the war?
5. Who saved the boys from being drowned?
   
6. What happened with the chief?
7. In this chapter he escaped death again, how? Describe his relationship with JR.?
8. Explain the internal conflict going on that involves his brother Jr.
   
9. What season is it? Describe the setting?
10. Why pour wine in soil?
11. What did he see as a fore shadow (hint of what will happen)?
12. Describe the backbreaking work of clearing the bush?
    
13. What made him and his brother misfits of their community? What did they often do?
14. Can you relate growing up as a misfit? How?
15. Why did Ismeal get into a lot of fights in school?
    
16. What is the significance of the ending of this chapter?

ch 5 questions and voc words

Pick out 6 new voc words

define, sentence and picture

A Long Way Gone

Ch.5 Questions

1. What was happening to his body?

2. Why were they getting irritable? Can you relate?

3. How many of them are there running away?

4. What happened to the little boy eating corn?

5. How did his mom react? Would you do the same?

6. Explain the incident with the Rebels? What would you have done?

7. Describe Rebels, what look like, their age, and attitude.

8. What happened to the old man trying to escape?

9. What was their culture like? What are your expectations from your culture to – elders?

10. How do the rebels do recruitment?

11. What did the new recruits have to do after they were chosen? Is there a time in your life that you were pressured to do something or be part of a group, family?

12. How does he escape death again?

13. Why do you think no one talked until dawn?

14. How did the Rebel incident affect the boys?

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ch 4 questions part 1 and voc words

Please go through the chapter and Pick out 6 voc words. define, sentence, and picture.

Questions

Ch.4 Questions

1. Now that war has came to his town, what was his life like now? Describe

2. Why did they sneak back to Mattru Jong?

3. Describe what they see, while they are traveling to towns?

4. What happens to all the houses that have been attacked by Rebels?

5. Why were they happy? What did they have?

6. Did they eat well? Why?

7. What was the logical decision they came up with?

chapter 3 voc words

Ch. 3 Vocab words

1. Anticipated
2. Subsequent
3. Abandon
4. Intervention
5. Civilians
6. Militant
7. Fragments

chapter 3 questions

Ch. 3 questions

1. What was the letter about?
2. What was RUF? Where did they see the message?
3. Why didn’t the rebels come by the time they said they would?
4. What does the Palampo mean? Have you experienced a time where your family worried that you would be Palampo forever pg.23?
5. Describe and give details, of how it was when the Rebels did come?
6. What was the carving mean? RUF?
7. Using one word how would you describe what was going on? Why?
8. Why do you think he was so determined to keep running? Why doesn’t he get tired?
9. How does he escape death?
10. How did the rebels get their messages across?
11. Why did they chop all of the messenger’s fingers off except the thumbs?
12. How was the tone of the village while the residents were hiding?
13. Describe the chaos when the rebels finally arrived.
14. Why was staying in town a greater risk for boys?
15. Describe the actions of the boys as they are running from the rebels. How long were they running for?

each chapter assignment- A MUST DO

For each chapter you must complete

2 options

option 1:

Adobe photoshop

1. based upon each chapter, find images of events, characters, setting on BING.com.
   
2. save them into your folder
3. open them up on adobe photoshop
4. duplicate layer for each pic
5. collage your photo to represent the meaning of the chapter
6. create title
   
7. add at least 2 quotes from the chapter
8. save as jpeg
9. add onto your powerpoint , send to missjade
10. add onto your BLOGSPOT

Option 2

chapter chart

1. Chapter includes
2. a title you create
3. in complete sentences write what is the setting
4. who are the characters
5. what is the conflict in the chapter
6. beg: 3 events that occur
7. med: 3 events that occur
8. end: 3 events that occur
9. conclusion
10. prediction for the next chapter
    
11. one photo to represent your chart
12. Post onto your blogspot

Title: My World Turned Upside Down
Characters:

• Ishmael Beah
  The narrator of this true story, Ishmael, is a boy soldier who finds a way to escape the horrors of war and go on to counsel others who are only looking for a way to live in peace.
  Junior Beah
• Ishmael’s brother, his companionship and love for Ishmael are some of the memories that help rehabilitate Ishmael. They escaped the initial rebel attacks together and then lost each other in the confusion that followed days later. He goes in search of Ishmael when they are separated and dies never knowing that Ishmael had found his family only minutes before they were burned alive by the rebels
• 
  

Setting:
Mattru Jong
Sierra Leone, 1993-1997

New York City, 1998

Problem: It is evident that they have seen things that so plague their minds that if they explained it, Ishmael and his friends would refuse to accept it. He is only ten years old at this point and his imagination doesn’t have the capacity to understand what these children have witnessed.

Beginning:
1. The first time Ishmael is actually touched by the war, he is twelve. It is January, 1993, and he, his brother, Junior, and their friend Talloi decide that they will go to the town of Mattru Jong to participate in a talent show.
2.
3.

Med
1. On the morning they left for Mattru Jong, they loaded their backpacks with their cassettes and lyrics they are working on as well as several layers of clothes on their bodies for the days they would be gone. They have no idea that this unusual way of dressing will benefit them later. They also never say goodbye or tell anyone where they are going, because they have no idea they are leaving, never to return. They decide to walk the sixteen miles from their village of Mogbwemo to save money and stop halfway at Kabati, his grandmother’s village.
2.

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3

End
1. Everyone runs for the bushes, but Ishmael doesn’t quite make it. He sees the driver, with a bleeding arm, vomit up blood and when the door on the other side opens, a woman leaning against it falls to the ground. Inside are three dead bodies, two girls and a boy, and their blood is spattered all over the inside of the van.
2.
3.

Conclusion: The boys continue to tell themselves that the war is just a passing phase that will be over in less than three months. They listen to rap music to pass the time, but Ishmael can’t help but remember the images from Kabati.

Prediction:

• I prediction that next chapter,............
  

Image:

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chapter 2 questions part 1 and part 2

Part 1 questions:

1. 1.Have you experienced anything like that where it has traumatized you?
2. 2.Give me some examples of war that you read in the chapter?
3. 3.How long has he been in NY? Do you think he can be okay after what he experienced?
4. 4.Compare and contrast young boys in us vs. the Sierra Leone boys?
5. 5.Are the memories good or bad? What do you think?

Part 2 questions
Ch. 2 Questions part 2

• Describe the setting of the first two paragraphs. (Five sentences)
• Describe the setting of the last two paragraphs (five sentences)
• What are the three world he lives in know? What does he mean by this?

chapter 2 voc words

Ch. 2 Vocab words
all words need to include DEFINE, SENTENCE, and PICTURE

1. Intoxicated
2. Tattered
3. Taut
4. Resisting
5. Anxiously
6. Burden

part 2 questions ch 1

1. Ch.1 Questions part 2
   
2. What difference can you explain between him and the other students
3. How was he when he first encountered war?
4. What is an example of a Western Civilian?
5. Why did he love hip hop?
6. Why do you think he was mesmerized by the blacks on TV?
7. What was the father’s reaction to the rap? What did he want them to watch instead?
8. Can you relate to him and his fascination about another culture? And desire to dress or imitate the American rappers?
9. How was walking around town different from your town?
10. What is grandma’s name? And how would you describe her.
11. How would you describe granddad?
12. What is a sign of god luck?
13. Why was school canceled?
14. Who are Rebels, What do they do? What happens to families because of them?
15. What is the family relationship like? Can you relate? Having separate families?
16. What does the women mean pg.11 quote? What was going on?
17. Give me 3 examples that showed display of a hard life and war? Give details.
18. Give one example of the cruelty of the rebels?
19. What kind of war was going on? Pg.14
20. What was his dream? What do you think it meant? Have you had any dreams that were hard to tell from dream or reality? Describe.
21. Tell me about a time where you could not get an image out of your head?

chapter 1 questions Part 1 and Part 2

All questions need to be answered in complete sentences !!!
Part 1 questions:
A Long Way Gone -by Ishmael Beah

Preface: predict what will happen in the book. What do you think the narrator is feeling based on his reaction from his friends questions?
(5 sentences)

Ch. 1 questions

1. How did the refugees act that walked through their town?


2. How old is the main character when he is first affected by the war?


3. What kind of music where the boys fascinated with? (Quotes from the book)

4. Where were they going and why? .

5. What did they bring on their trip? Describe what they were wearing.

6. What was the prank the narrator pulled when they were swimming in the river?

7. What impression do you get from the description of his grandparents?

8. When they arrived at Mattru Jong, whose house did they stay at? Describe

9. What did they hear was happening at home?

10. Where did they go to wait for news about the main character’s family? What did they decide to do next?

11. Describe the living situation between the man characters family.

12. What was a warning they received?

13. What happened as they waited back at his grandmother’s village?

14.Why did they decide to go back to Mattru Jong instead of staying at the grandmother’s village or going home?

15. What were some new regulations in Mattru Jong?

16. What conclusions did the boys come up with abut the war?

17. In your own words describe what the old man meant by “ we must strive to be like the moon’.

Children of War

Every day as a result of conflict, thousands of civilians are killed or injured. More than half of these victims are children. The days when the captain of a sinking ship ordered women and children first onto lifeboats are just a fading notion. The Second World War was a watershed when civilian victims were as numerous as combatants. Now, in almost all current conflicts, civilians are the majority of casualties, with children suffering disproportionately. According to the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), 2 million children have been killed by conflict over the last decade; 6 million children have been made homeless; 12 million have been injured or disabled; and there are at least 300,000 child soldiers operating in 30 different conflicts across the globe.

A child is particularly vulnerable to the ravages of war. According to a United Nations study on children in war by Graca Machel, "The physical, sexual and emotional violence to which they [children] are exposed shatters their world. War undermines the very foundations of children's lives, destroying their homes, splintering their communities and breaking down their trust in adults." We treat bullet and shrapnel wounds, provide prosthesis for mine victims, house the displaced and refugees of ongoing conflicts, but how do we fare in providing those most vulnerable and least able to cope with the nutritional, environmental, emotional and psychological effects of conflict?

sierre leone

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About the Author

Ishmael Beah was born in Sierra Leone in 1980. He moved to the United States in 1998 and finished his last two years of high school at the United Nations International School in New York. In 2004 he graduated from Oberlin College with a B.A. in political science. He is a member of the Human Rights Watch Children’s Rights Division Advisory Committee and has spoken before the United Nations, the Council on Foreign Relations, the Center for Emerging Threats and Opportunities (CETO) at the Marine Corps Warfighting Laboratory, and many other NGO panels on children affected by the war. His work has appeared in VespertinePress and LIT magazine. He lives in New York City.

A Long way Gone BOOK Info

SETTING Sierra Leone, 1993-1997 New York City, 1998 CHARACTER LIST Major Characters Ishmael Beah The narrator of this true story, Ishmael, is a boy soldier who finds a way to escape the horrors of war and go on to counsel others who are only looking for a way to live in peace. Esther She is a nurse at Benin House where Ishmael is taken for rehabilitation. She befriends him and helps him to find himself again. Alhaji He is a young man whom Ishmael befriends when they are both part of the soldiers fighting the rebels. He is as strong and cold as Ishmael in battle, but just as in need of re-finding his childhood. Uncle Tommy He takes Ishmael in after he is found in Freetown. Ishmael cannot stay at Benin House forever and he needs family to love him. He lucks out with Uncle Tommy, because the man truly loves Ishmael and helps him leave behind the horrors or war. The Lieutenant He is the father figure when Ishmael goes into battle. His words motivate the young boys to be willing to give their lives against the rebels. Minor Characters Junior Beah Ishmael’s brother, his companionship and love for Ishmael are some of the memories that help rehabilitate Ishmael. They escaped the initial rebel attacks together and then lost each other in the confusion that followed days later. He goes in search of Ishmael when they are separated and dies never knowing that Ishmael had found his family only minutes before they were burned alive by the rebels. Laura Simms She is the woman Ishmael meets in New York City who helps children of war by being a storyteller, a cultural aspect of Sierra Leonean society. Ishmael is drawn to her because of this and she takes him under her wing while he is in America. Later, when he is able to escape Sierra Leone, she helps him get to America and becomes his mother. CONFLICT Protagonist The protagonist is Ishmael and he is central to understanding the horrors of war in Sierra Leone, because he became a boy soldier. Antagonist The antagonists at first are the rebels who bring horror and death to civilians for reasons Ishmael can never discern. Later, the antagonist becomes Ishmael himself when he very nearly cannot find the strength within himself to recover from begin a bloodthirsty soldier to a child once more. Climax The climax occurs when Ishmael realizes he will never escape war and find peace until he leaves Sierra Leone. He finds a way to get to Guinea and then to New York City and become a new person. Outcome After a long and harrowing journey, Ishmael finds his way out of Sierra Leone and into Guinea. From there, with the help of Laura Simms, he travels to New York City, finishes high school, and graduates from College. He becomes an advocate at the UN and other international organizations for dealing with the solution to children forced to become soldiers. SHORT SUMMARY (Synopsis) This true story involves the life of Ishmael Beah who lives a fairly happy life in Sierra Leone until civil war breaks out. Then, like other civilians, he is forced to run for his life, becoming separated from his family and later losing them to murder by the rebels. He later finds a way to be rehabilitated and regain his childhood. He once again learns how to love. THEMES War Is Hell The first and most important theme is War is Hell. Although this is an overworked phrase, it fits this narrative perfectly. The horrors and tragedy that Ishmael relates to the reader are almost unbelievable. The atrocities committed against innocent civilians give new meaning to the idea of war as well.